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Up one levelUp with Lutheranism!
What is it that gets you down? We live in a culture where the highest value seems to be personal happiness. We are always told what advertisers just KNOW will make us happy, if we would just stop fighting it and buy it already! We Lutherans pride ourselves in our theologia crusis (isn’t that an oxymoron? Pride in…) and we know that no one has promised us happiness all of the time, but I contend that even we tend to buy into the right to be happy.
Which Lutheranism?
I really enjoy watching the “big picture” in areas of life that interest me. A colleague once accused me of having “vision”, another mumbled something about “meta-narratives”; my friends tell me I get lucky when I come up with something profound. Well, one of the things I notice these days is a genuine struggle for “which Lutheranism” will be our future. Well, DUH! But, hang on and read on and see if I am on to something...
Rethinking the Priesthood
I ordered this book fully prepared not to like it, but I felt I should read it anyway because it may be important. It is. This little book Priesthood, Pastors, Bishops; Public Ministry for the Reformation and Today by Dr. Timothy Wengert, has stirred my thinking like few books before have done...