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Cancelling Debts in Cancel Culture
In a culture that has given itself over almost entirely to extreme moral accountability, mercy often appears dangerous and reckless. Eighteen-year-old Brandt Jean offered forgiveness to his brother Botham’s...
Tullian Tchividjian’s Upside Down Christianity
Four years after a sex scandal prompted him to depart from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tullian Tchividjian, grandson to Billy Graham, has again assumed the pulpit. Now, he is...
Luther’s Purgatory
Radical. Renegade. Rebel. Revolutionary. Friends and foes alike have applied such labels to Martin Luther during the last year, the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. I won’t begrudge anyone’s...
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus: Enough Already
Dear Johannes Cochlaeus, You always were a clever one, but this time you’ve gone too far. You started all this with your “Seven-Headed Luther” illustration. Clever strategy that one:...
Catholics are Adopting a Lutheran Perspective on Martin Luther. They Shouldn’t.
Catholics are adopting a Lutheran perspective on Martin Luther. Or, more precisely, certain Catholics are adopting a certain mistaken Lutheran perspective on Martin Luther. This is unfortunate, because it...
Losing Luther
As a recent Atlantic essay points out, Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber’s emphasis on sin and grace in Christ sounds downright conservative. Her congregation even utilizes orthodox Lutheran liturgy! In a...
A Radically Toxic Combination
Tullian Tchividjian was Evangelical royalty, and once again we are reminded never to put our hope in princes. Grandson to Billy Graham, Tchividjian assumed the legendary pulpit of Coral...
A Lutheran Among Calvinists
As a confessing Lutheran in a doctoral program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS), the institution at the center of the Calvinist Baptist movement, I have watched with...
