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We have all heard of The Great Awakenings of the United States. These watershed moments in history affected both the religious and political spheres of those days. In this episode, Ramirez talks about the watershed moment that we have undergone over the past decades, The Great Awokening. He notes the key features in both political and religious life, how they affect both, and what the differing generations have to offer in terms of defending the church, the home, and the community from its more virulent strains. 

Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Special Guest: Fr. David Ramirez

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We have heard of the issues at Concordia University Wisconsin surrounding the suspension of Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz. In this episode, we hear from the good doctor himself. We talk about the definition of Woke-ism, how it is manifested at CUW, how the students are the unwitting targets, and how we are all called to defend the truth of God’s Word against those who would sideline it. Let God be true and every man a liar. 

Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Special Guest: Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz

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Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The First Sunday in Lent, Matthew 4:1–11.

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Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Regular Guest: Fr. David Petersen

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In this episode, we follow up with Harold Ristau to hear about the developments in Canada from a “Fringe Minority.” Please pray for our Christian brothers in Canada.

 

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Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Special Guest: Fr. Harold Ristau (Professor of Theology, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catherines, ON, Canada)

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In our episode on Raising Up Men, a listener asked a question about a topic brought up tangentially to what we were discussing. The question: “How do you wrangle little ones for family devotions?” In this episode, Adam and I answer that question and offer some other thoughts on how to cultivate a family piety. 

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Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Regular Guest: Fr. Adam Koontz

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Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for Quinquagesima, Luke 18:31–43.

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Regular Guest: Fr. David Petersen

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“The problem I have with all of the “conservative” Christian angst against the cancel culture is that it has been conservative Christians who — especially beginning in the 1970s — were constantly leading the charge to “boycot” [sic] this or that product because said product was a sponsor of tv shows like Soap, or All in the Family, or anything else that the conservative Christians objected to. In other words, y’all are the prototype cancelers. It’s just more than a little disengenous [sic] that now that you’re feeling the heat from your own fire, you’re crying about it.”

— "MARTIN LUTHER" WRITING TO GOTTESBLOG

The above quote was in response to my post called “Cancel Culture and the Cross.”

It amuses me for several reasons, and has given me fodder for writing more. So thank you, “Boomer Luther.”

I love how boomers are still living in the glory days of the 1960s and 70s, albeit Depends have replaced once ubiquitous bell bottoms, and Viagra has largely supplanted LSD. It is as though life reached its zenith at Woodstock, and boomers are still having flashbacks from the brown acid, even as their glory days of ruling the youth culture were to march on a few more years into the 1970s before sputtering and amounting to nothing. So much for the “Age of Aquarius”. Look at what Martin Boomer considers a cultural triumph: the subversive TV shows of five decades ago: “Soap” and “All in the Family.”

And this is why we say, “OK, boomer.”

“Soap”? I do remember the program, but barely. I was a child. It was back when the Left became enamored with deviant sexuality and having the sound of a toilet flushing on TV. So stunning. So brave. And really, “Martin Luther”? “Soap”? Does anybody under the age of 75 have any of these shows in his VHS collection? I guess that’s what they like to call “ground breaking.” Sigh.

OK, boomer.

And let’s talk about “All in the Family,” shall we? I actually watched this one as a kid. It was a celebration of degeneracy, anti-Christianism, and Marxism. It was the brainchild of Norman Lear, a political leftist and social revolutionary. The message of the show is personified by the Atheist and leftist character known by his nickname "Meathead”, played by fellow leftist revolutionary Rob Reiner. The villain of the series was Archie Bunker, who represents traditional American values (and of course is a conservative white Protestant). On the show, Bunker is a slack-jawed, mouth-breathing buffoon, and an irrational and stupid bigot, while, of course, the counter-cultural characters are all intelligent, suave, sophisticated and educated. They always come out ahead while Bunker looks like a fool. Yawn. And of course, Christianity is mocked while Marxism, sexual promiscuity and deviancy, and cultural degeneracy are celebrated. The free enterprise system is panned as well.Watching reruns of the program from our perspective today shows the ham-handed agitprop cleverly using a laugh-track to cue and program the home audience as to whom they are supposed to identify with, and to get them mindlessly seal-clapping along at just the right time, like unto Pavlov’s slobbering dogs.

Interestingly, Lear and Reiner were old-school leftists in many ways, champions of the Declaration of Independence (which today has a so-called trigger warning for calling American Indians “savages” and not acknowledging black slaves). Lear and Meathead are advocates of free speech - at least when it suits them. I have yet to hear Norman Lear (who is still alive) or Rob “OK Boomer” Reiner utter a peep today about cancel culture and the assaults on free speech from their political allies. I guess that they’re fine with cancel culture as long as it goes from left to right.

Moreover, another fact that went down the Boomer Memory Hole is that “All in the Family” and its spinoff “The Jeffersons” included the use of the uncensored N-word. And yet, surprise of surprises, nobody is calling for Norman Lear and Meathead to apologize, to grovel, to b

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In this episode, Harold Ristau discusses his involvement in the Freedom Convoy protests and updates us on the state of the Church and State in Canada. 

For more, visit: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2022/2/14/an-iconic-moment-for-canada

 

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Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Special Guest: Fr. Harold Ristau (Professor of Theology, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catherines, ON, Canada)

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Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for Sexagesima, Luke 8:4–13.

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Regular Guest: Fr. David Petersen

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