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From time to time, Lutherans mock other Lutherans for being overly careful regarding dealing with consecrated elements so as to avoid their profanation.

In a discussion about praying to the dead, a Roman Catholic FB friend was critical of a Protestant FB friend. They went back and forth while I scooped popcorn into my mouth and enjoyed the show.

I ran across an interesting website: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/.

It is actually a database of all Roman Catholic bishops, past and present, with their histories.

When I was a first-year seminarian, one of our professors told us that we had to become comfortable in our own skin.

“People don't have to be taught how to listen to the sermon. Preachers have to be taught how to preach sermons that people want to listen to. The onus is on the Shepherd, not the sheep.”
~ Recent commenter on Gottesblog

As the Church becomes increasingly marginalized and under attack - particularly church bodies that accept Scripture as inspired, infallible, and normative - Christians are going to be pressed harder and harder by strident forces of political correctness…

The above meme was posted by a Facebook group called “The Christian Left.” An interesting discussion followed…