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  • Luther, Locke, and Human Dignity0

    In the decades after Luther’s formulation of the priesthood of all believers, various theologians and political thinkers explored the implications of that new theory of human equality for both church and state. As the role between church and state became adjusted in various countries, new conceptions and understandings of the individual arose. The Englishman John

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  • Unleashing the Churches!0

    During his presidential campaign Donald Trump reported that evangelical preachers had told him that the Johnson Amendment prevented them from endorsing him from the pulpit, so he promised to take steps to repeal it. In a speech to evangelical leaders Trump said, “If you like somebody or want somebody to represent you, you should have

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  • Liberty on the Air0

    “There’s far too much religion in this world.” That statement coming from the editor of Liberty magazine took me by surprise. I’m sure many of our listeners stopped what they were doing and leaned just a little closer to their radios. How could a Christian journalist make such a startling statement, and during an international

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  • The Two Kingdoms0

    If we are to come to a correct understanding of Luther’s thought regarding the two kingdoms, spiritual and temporal, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world, the best place to begin is with his treatise on worldly authority, Von Weltlicher Obrigkeit (1523)…. Luther insists that it is of primary importance not to

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  • The Burden of Freedom0

    In book five of The Brothers Karamazov, in the section “The Grand Inquisitor,” the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) has Jesus return to earth in the sixteenth century, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. That day “almost a hundred heretics had, for the greater glory of God, been burnt by the cardinal, the

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  • As the World Turns0

    No flat earth imagery for this editorial! I want to keep it real. And is there anything more “real” than a soap opera? Ergo my title, which was the title of the second-longest-running soap opera of all time, which ran for 54 years! That covers nearly my whole lifetime, and provides an appropriate lead-in for

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