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As we enter December and the Christmas season, a variety of messages are floating around American culture. Ranging from Jesus is the reason for the season to a consumeristic glut of advertisements all centered on Santa and reindeer, there exists a diverse set of ideas about how to celebrate Christmas. As Christians, we know of course that the main reason to celebrate at Christmas is to consider the wonder of the birth of Jesus Christ. God took on human flesh and our world and

In the last 500-plus years since the advent of the Protestant Reformation, hostilities between the main Western branches of Christendom (The Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism) have ebbed and flowed. The reign of bloody Mary in mid-1500s England stands out as a particular low point in terms of exceptional violence due to doctrinal disagreement. But while we can thank the Lord that Catholics and Protestants are not at literal war with each other in our current context, a

The Enduring Legacy of Luther’s 95 Theses 508 years ago today, Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. While his actions were unquestionably disruptive, they weren’t nearly as iconoclastic as some today may believe. In reality, Luther was merely using a common tactic (posting on the church’s door) to call for debate and discussion – not a wholesale revolution. Luther’s action would be the rough equivalent of a lengthy

Late September 2024 to Late September 2025 has been 12 months marked by momentous change. While American society might most acutely feel the change of Presidential administrations, the global church of Jesus Christ has also been affected by a series of scandals and deaths. In my relatively brief time in pastoral ministry (going on 8 years), I cannot a recall a twelve-month period in which so many prominent leaders have been lost either due to the universal consequence for sin