Rev. Greg Alms over at Incarnatus Est just posted about this NY Times article on the latest Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey. The survey is on the dramatic shifts that are taking place in the American religious scene, where upwards of 44% of people no longer are members of the church body […]
I am often struck by the sheer ordinariness of preaching. It is very easy, I believe, to view preaching as a divine activity where the Holy Spirit is whispering into the ear of the preacher what he is to say, much like you occasionally see with icons of the Evangelists. But I’m here to tell […]
The Holy Ministry has changed over the last hundred years. No, not the Word and Sacrament part, but just about everything else: hymnals in the pews, language, electronic organs, bulletins, cars, telephones, computers, sound systems, boards and meetings. Boards? Meetings?
It is very good, from time to time, to reflect as a Church about the nature of who we are in Christ, and of where and how God works in our midst, giving us the forgiveness of sins, life and salvation. For Lutherans, we are very familiar and comfortable with phrases like “Word and Sacrament,” […]