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Samuel Johnson, known especially for his contribution to the standardization of the English language by producing A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, was a devout Anglican and struggled against slothfulness his whole life. Below are a couple of his prayers against this.
Read MoreHere is a Gottesblog post from 2013: “On Flags in the Sanctuary.”
Read MoreThe 1613 Cantica Sacra contains the services for the entire year in the Lutheran Magdeburg Cathedral. It is by all accounts a rather conservative liturgical work, though it does contain some surprises.
Read MoreIn a public YouTube clip, he makes the claim that he has been denied the Lord’s Supper in Lutheran - presumably LCMS - churches, being prohibited from the Eucharist by Lutheran pastors, because he is black, and that this scenario has played out twenty times. He claims to know that this was done because of “racism” on the part of the celebrant in each of these incidents.
Read MoreTo put the best construction on this, its context must be presented as an ironic misunderstanding that many people have regarding our Lutheran confession of faith: that it is provincial, it is for rubes in flyover country, and it must be altered to fit a more sophisticated, progressive culture as found on the coasts.
Read MoreNote: this beautiful confession of faith was published on Fr. Trifa’s facebook page. He is a Lutheran pastor serving in Romania.
Read More(Here is something I wrote back in 2005. I may be even more stubborn and crabby today.)
Read MoreRemembering that today is Whitsun Tuesday, I opened up The Lutheran Hymnal, and pondered the assigned propers for the day, and one of our forgotten hymns.
Read MoreThe world is very evil, The times are waxing late;
Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate…
Read MoreRecently there has been a refreshing amount of spirited theological reflection about the current Covid pandemic, the vaccines and mandates blossoming forth from the Lutheran Church – Canada
Read MoreA reader recently sent me a note worthy of considering. He wondered whether we have addressed the matter of opening the Divine Service with the words, “Remembering our Baptism, we make our beginning in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
Read MoreJohann Gerhard, in his great Locus on the Church (vol. xxv, p. 323), provides a quotation that seems to be attributed both to Polydorus Virgilius and to Platina
Read MoreTo borrow from Charles Dickens, we can just imagine Jacob Marley warning the LCMS that this is our fate if we don’t crush the nescient woke movement within the LCMS.
Read More“This worthy eating does not consist in a man’s purity, holiness, or perfection...”
Read MoreThe important social traditions are not just arbitrary customs, which might or might not have survived into the modern world. They are forms of knowledge. They contain the residues of many trials and errors, as people attempt to adjust their conduct to the conduct of others. They exist because they provide necessary information, without which a society may not be able to reproduce itself. Destroy them heedlessly and you remove the guarantee offered by one generation to the next.
Read MoreGottesdienst is on its way! The stallion has bolted from the barn, as our quarterly journal hurries on its appointed journey. Here’s what the beauty looks like:
Read MoreNormally it’s expected of our friend and compatriot Larry Beane to post on our website examples of outrageous and ridiculous things that provide further evidence of the need for Gottesdienst.
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