As a friendly commenter noted, my last article needed some serious editing. It is never good for me to find myself writing too close to a deadline; the result is…
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Although the appellation “woke”—used by Ricky Gervais to the Hollywood establishment at the Oscars as “insider” language just a few years ago—is eschewed by progressives now that cultural conservatives have…
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“What’s all this ‘Father’ stuff about in the Lord’s Prayer? Why should we call God ‘Father,’ anyway?” she intoned petulantly, fixing me with a stare that clearly thought no reasonable…
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In my office hangs my ordination certificate. Across it is emblazoned the name of the ordaining body, the body whose confessional commitments I pledged to uphold on the day I…
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As we entered 2022, and I faced the deadline for this article, I found myself struggling with what to write; what topic did I find compelling enough to spend time…
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Sin, Justification, and Salvation: Critical Theory as Christ-less Christianity Secular Christian Heresy One of the more perplexing questions I received after writing my last article was, “Why do you call…
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Editor's Note: The first half of an article by Pr. Brett Jenkins was published as a single post in Lutheran CORE's September 2020 newsletter. It can be viewed here. The…
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Editor's Note: The conclusion of this article will be published in a second post on or about September 18, 2020. Critical Theory—in particular, Critical Race Theory—has recently captured the Church’s…
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Life Was Not All It Could Be “Well, I do watch a lot of YouTube videos.” The twenty-something young man sitting in my office said it to me with an…
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On August 25, 2010, at a meeting of Lutheran CORE that would at its close give birth to the separate organization of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), I wrote…
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