1517 Blogcast

We are praying here, not for God to establish some kind of earthly, political government, but rather, to draw us into his very active reign. 

Ash Wednesday confronts us with our true nature, our mortality, and marks us with the only escape from it: the cross of Christ.

The end of the pursuit isn't regeneration, but degeneration. We're fighting fire with bottles of gasoline.

Transfiguration and our Lenses of Glory.

Though not without his faults, Anselm of Canterbury is unquestionably one of the great theologians of the last millennium.

This article is the second installment in an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.

Transfiguration is like a farewell party for a dear friend drafted and going off to war. We celebrate all that has brought us there, we rejoice in our friend, and yet we know we are sending him off to great danger.

Ultimately the Christian life isn't about progress, it's about promise--the Pilgrim's Promise.

What a person quickly realizes when sin, death, and Satan attack in concrete reality is how inadequate and ill-equipped they are to fight them off.

How did we get love and romance associated with Valentine and his likely mid-February death?