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A Lady of the Lake 0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
1871, The Atlantic Ocean: A determined Fréderic Auguste Bartholdi stares out at the vast Atlantic Ocean. He strokes his beard as the high seas wind blows through his hair. Paris lies behind him, and the ocean steamer slices through the steel-gray waters bound for the eastern shores of America. The challenging maritime passage will take
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The Last Crusade 0
- January/February 2018
- January 1, 2018
One of the enduring myths of the American story is that the United States is a Christian nation. The dynamic that led to a war of independence and the sensibilities of self-determinism was dominantly secular. The discussions and negotiations that led to the adoption of a Constitution and its original amendments were of a distinctly
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Love Those Reformers 0
- November/December 2017
- November 1, 2017
Agape love is the central premise of Protestant Christian theology. According to The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, “Luther’s rediscovery of the primacy of agape was the linchpin of the Reformation and the rediscovery of genuine Christian ethics.”1 Many confuse the concept of agape love with the concept of caritas, or charity, but these are two separate
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The Protestant Reformation and Freedom of Conscience 0
- November/December 2017
- November 1, 2017
This year we celebrate 500 years of the Protestant Reformation. On October 31, 1517, the then Augustinian monk, priest, and teacher Martin Luther nailed, at the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, a document with 95 theses on salvation, that is, basically, the way people are led by the Christian God to heaven. Luther
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