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Luther Copy Cat?!
Below you will find an excerpt from St. Augustin’s 412 A.D. letter to an elderly widow by the name of Proba giving her advice in general about prayer and Augustin’s explanation of the Lord’s Prayer. What struck me is how … Continue reading
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“Live Long and Prosper”
This very recognizable bit of Vulcan “wisdom” was first used by the half-Vulcan-half-human Spock in a 1967 episode. This website https://www.startrek.com/news/the-jewish-ritual-that-led-nimoy-to-create-the-vulcan-salute says Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Spock, said that he made it up on the set of the episode “Amok … Continue reading
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It Started With 80 John
This blog started with an article in the May 2024 Texas Monthly entitled The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and a Texas Legend. Daniel Webster Wallace became “80 John” because that was his brand. In this article by W.K. Stratton, … Continue reading
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Is Always Means Is Even In Metaphors
I became panicked recently because I could not remember why “is always means is even in metaphors” and more specially how this applied to the all-important words of our Lord “This is My Body.” With so many, particularly LCMS pastors, … Continue reading
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Agatha Christie Feminist or Lutheran?
In reading Luck Worsley Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, I can’t tell if she’s a feminist, a Lutheran, neither, some, or both. Two things I don’t like about this book is that while Agatha Christie never said that any of … Continue reading
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From the Well of Feminism Totalitarianism Will Come
Make no mistakes men have dug that well. In 1997 I asked and answered Why is Feminism So Hard to Resist?: because we are all feminized. Not in the good way that Chesterton said all men are by virtue of … Continue reading
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Mary, Mother of God
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Most Controversial Blog Ever
It is possible to go so overboard about “faith” about believing – like Pentecostals do, some Baptists do, and some Lutherans too, then you end up having faith in faith, worshipping faith. The same is true of liturgy. You can … Continue reading
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Have we believed in vain?
That is the subject of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod president Matthew Harrison’s fund appeal of March 9, 2026. you may ask why I who haven’t been a member of the LCMS for 7 years would even know about this … Continue reading
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What’s Worse than Birthright Citizenship?
Christians may differ, radical Republicans on the right and noodle-headed Liberals on the left, notwithstanding about birthright citizenship. They can have honest disagreements – without compromising their confession, Scripture, or America. You may disagree with the 14th Amendment being used … Continue reading
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