Luthermatrix

                  As is my habit, when the lectionary offers a book of the Bible that is infrequently read —maybe only once a year, maybe,...

           There is much that we think we know about the Letter to the Hebrews —for example we think it is a letter, and that it is to the...

                There are many things to commend the Revised Common Lectionary —our 3-year cycle of reading scripture in the Church —but...

                Christian Smith’s new book is a broad study of the decline and obsolescence of “Traditional Religion” (for Smith this is pre...

For whatever reason I've always focused on the Philippians' "Christ Hymn" when I've thought of the earliest non-Psalm ...

  The Recent IRS Decision                 In response to lawsuits brought by a bunch of Baptist and non-denominational congregations in ...

                 As of late there have been a spat of articles and think pieces bemoaning men not reading or writing, but especially not rea...

  I recently read that the average human body is composed of 8 and a half dollars’ worth of oxygen, 8 dollars’ worth of carbon, 7 dollars’ w...

  Since discerning that it is not my calling to be the Bishop of New Jersey, the Synod went through a three-day time of discernment that le...