Summer/Fall 2022
Summer/Fall 2022 (Issue 6)
Traditional Christianity: Why Society Needs Us More Than Ever
In summary, one of Critical Theory’s most influential proprietors appeared to believe that traditional churches were society’s last line of defense against its pedagogies.
Defend the Rights of the Poor and Needy
Interposition is neither insurrection nor complicity in evil. It is a full and free exercise of one’s vocation to do always, and only, the right thing.
Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals: The Only Way To Keep a Lutheran College Lutheran
It is not only possible to keep a Lutheran college Lutheran. It has to be done. And it has to be done with purpose from the very start. That is exactly what we are doing at Luther Classical College.
Traditional Christianity: Why Society Needs Us More Than Ever
In summary, one of Critical Theory’s most influential proprietors appeared to believe that traditional churches were society’s last line of defense against its pedagogies.
Defend the Rights of the Poor and Needy
Interposition is neither insurrection nor complicity in evil. It is a full and free exercise of one’s vocation to do always, and only, the right thing.
Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals: The Only Way To Keep a Lutheran College Lutheran
It is not only possible to keep a Lutheran college Lutheran. It has to be done. And it has to be done with purpose from the very start. That is exactly what we are doing at Luther Classical College.
A Discussion on John Donne’s La Corona, part seven, Ascension
I encourage all of you to not only read this poem, but to learn it by heart. Its imagery is not only beautiful, but it accurately and poignantly teaches us how important and necessary Christ’s ascension was for us.
How It Happened in the Times of Lot
Pfotenhauer’s words are a sober reminder that we must teach our children of the dangers and snares we encounter living in this fallen world. Even more, they are a message of hope in our Savior, whose blood covers all sin.
Perfect Love (Poem)
O Love, You grant me and my wife / To be a picture of Your grace, / To live the sacrificial life, / Until we reach that place / Of marriage feasting up above / And live with You, our Perfect Love.
What about the Atonement?
It isn’t legalism to insist that the law must be fulfilled. It is the comforting gospel that the law has in fact been fulfilled for us.
Beowulf
In Beowulf, we see into a moment in the process of converting pagan poetic culture into Christian culture, a process incomplete in the text of the poem, and perhaps forever incomplete in the real world.
O Jesus Christ, Your Supper Is (Hymn)
The blood You spilt / Removes my guilt,
The body that You give me is salvation
Christian News in Brief (Summer/Fall 2022)
A June 6th memo from President and CEO Don Christian of Concordia Texas informed constituents of the university of a desire to separate from the LCMS in governance matters.
Getting to Know the Fathers: Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard had such a longing for Christ. Though he was as complex as any sinner-saint, and though we might well find fault with some of the positions he maintained and the things he did, he was consistent in this: he preached Christ Jesus.
Law and Grace (Painting)
This issue’s woodcut is an imitation of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1529 painting, “Law and Grace”
