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Animal Tales
I don’t like Veggie Tales; they are a memorable but moralistic retelling of Bible stories that many Christians think are good for children. Vegetables are but Veggie Tales aren’t. The behavior they teach isn’t distinctively Christian. Muslims, Jews, and Mormons … Continue reading
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Fancy Let Herself Down
Bobbie Gentry first recorded the song in 1969; most know the Reba McEntire remake of 1990, but no matter who sings it Fancy says the same schizophrenic thing. A woman can give up her body and still be true to … Continue reading
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Private Confessions and Public Movies
In the movie Sleepers young teens sneak into the priest=s side of the confessional to hear a nice looking woman=s confession. They are astounded when she acknowledges that they are not the priest but confesses her sins anyway. She unburdens her soul … Continue reading
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The Myth of Sexual Moral Neutrality
There it is on a list of 60 or so clubs at my daughters’ high school. Amid the Chess Club, Karate Club, Astronomy Club, Powerlifting Club, and Robot Club is the Gay and Straight Alliance Club. With straight faces we … Continue reading
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Quibbling is better than not Knowing
This is off-color, but there is often pointed truth in ribald humor.
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Is it a sin not to Vote?
On February 5, 2008 the Reverend Paul McCain of the LCMS Concordia Publishing House wrote the following in his blog. “Did you vote today? I almost did not. Then I realized that not voting is a sin.
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The Papacy with Lots of Beane
No real Texan believes that chili is chili if it has beans. I am no Texan, so I don’t know about chili, but I do know about the papacy and no matter how much Beane is added to it, it’s … Continue reading
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The Well of Holiness
G.K. Chesterton said, “Men may or may not expect an act of healing to take place at a holy well, but nobody expects it ten miles from the well” (“The New Jerusalem,” Collected Works, Volume XX, p. 308). Nobody except … Continue reading
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The Rosebush
A man wakes in the middle of the night to find a rosebush growing resplendently in the middle of the bedroom. He knows it’s his bedroom, his bed, his furniture, his floor, yet from that floor sprouts this magnificent rose. … Continue reading
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Public Doctrine
Much fanfare was made when in 2001 when the LCMS in convention affirmed “The book The Voice of our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry, by Dr. C.F.W. Walther…as the definitive statement under Holy Scripture and the Lutheran … Continue reading
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