Gottesblog

Instead of the Packers or Iron Man, you should incorporate the apostles or King David. Instead of cracking jokes, you should be treading on demons. Instead of seeing yourself as a stand up comedian, you should see yourself as a messenger tasked with urgent news: the oracles of God centered on the cross and the blood of the Lord in whose stead you stand.

This article about the ongoing current debate about clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church made me think of the same debate embedded in our Book of Concord - namely Article 23 of the Augsburg Confession, it’s response by Rome in the Roman Confutation, and our counter-response in Apology 23.

I read something on social media recently, that if true, is a disgrace, and an indictment of both our polity and lack of erudition in the LCMS. An LCMS layman reported being summoned to a meeting of the Board of Elders of his congregation and was castigated for reading Thomas Aquinas and sharing the above two quotes on social media.

There’s a lot of clutter out there in the world of podcasting. But there is also pure gold! I encourage everyone to watch or listen to the Rev. Dr. William Weinrich’s 2.75 hour presentation on the On the Line video podcast.

There seems to be a ruckus on X (formerly “Twitter”) over whether or not it is socially acceptable to say, “Christ is King.” And of course, it isn’t socially acceptable. We live in “negative world.”