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https://steadfastlutherans.org/2018/07/reviewing-forde-fordes-on-being-a-theologian-of-the-cross-part-one/

https://steadfastlutherans.org/2018/07/open-communion-strange-to-the-church/

https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/7/17/a-threefold-christological-definition-of-preaching

The Telegraph: "Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem scrubbed off wall by students who claim he was a ‘racist’" This reminds me of the Anabaptists smashing stained…Read More

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/07/15/how-politics-becomes-religion/

New article by Pr. Burnell F. Eckardt up over at Gottesdienst https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/7/17/a-threefold-christological-definition-of-preaching

That we even need to ask questions like this only highlights the wisdom of our forefathers in regards to maintaining the harmonious order of creation…Read More

https://religionnews.com/2018/07/13/episcopal-convention-approves-a-pastoral-solution-on-same-sex-marriage/

https://ilc-online.org/2018/07/13/australian-pastors-conference-rejects-draft-doctrinal-statement-on-womens-ordination/

https://factsandtrends.net/2018/07/11/lost-site-of-jesus-feeding-the-multitude-discovered/

https://www.christianpost.com/news/united-methodist-megachurch-in-texas-may-leave-umc-over-homosexuality-debate-225952/

http://www.canadianlutheran.ca/new-names-for-lcc-districts/?platform=hootsuite

https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2018/07/10/life-roe-clergy-consider-handing-morning-pill-church/

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article214606895.html

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/church-wants-database-of-questions-for-politicians.a284997/

"NALC Bishop John Bradosky, invited NALC women theologians to come and train Christian women leaders in the doctrines of the faith from an orthodox Lutheran…Read More

So, we’re helping churches in Africa get away from the ordination of women, but cozying up with an American church which is sending female pastors…Read More

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/ecumenical-leaders-pledge-solidarity-in-prayer-and-action/

https://religionnews.com/2018/07/11/after-shuttering-700-churches-rwanda-proposes-stricter-clergy-guidelines/

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/lutheran-church-missouri-synod-officer-explains-sharp-budget-cuts-to/article_a259bbca-13e6-5d13-be26-091cca2e4a44.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/atheists-agnostic-religion-close-minded-tolerant-catholics-uk-france-spain-study-belgium-catholic-a7819221.html

Great deal over at CPH’s Not Quite Perfect section: https://www.cph.org/p-25234-nqp-inside-the-reformation.aspx?REName=Sales&plk=2700&Lk=0&rlk=0

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/why-do-so-many-leaders-activists-on-cultural-left-know-little-or-nothing-about-religion

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/08/government-drops-doctor-says-gender-given-birth/

Maybe the way of life changed first and then led to these closings. http://www.startribune.com/as-minnesota-churches-close-a-way-of-life-fades/486037461/

“Now our children have moved away. The grandkids have volleyball, dance on weekends. People are busy with other things." Too bad many folks will studiously…Read More

Praise Be to God! https://fox6now.com/2018/07/06/2-months-after-massive-blaze-trinity-lutheran-church-starts-to-rebuild/

No, this really isn’t a Babylon Bee post, but an article that somehow actually got published. https://www.thenation.com/article/founders-showed-greater-respect-islam-trump-supreme-court/

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pure-genocide-over-6000-nigerian-christians-slaughtered-mostly-women-children-225655/

Think of the Childrens teachers more like preachers and ponder what’s going on. https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/05/pennsylvania-district-fights-to-keep-parents-from-watching-pro-lgbt-videos-students-were-required-to-watch/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

No Jesus again. Just dogs http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180706/new-comfort-dog-at-elgin-church-a-way-to-bring-love-into-the-community

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/upshot/americans-are-having-fewer-babies-they-told-us-why.html

https://www.ft.com/content/e49775f0-7b8f-11e8-af48-190d103e32a4

See these starting in the LCMS? How about your congregation? https://www.michaeljkruger.com/new-series-the-10-commandments-of-progressive-christianity/

This is why the Lutheran Confessions praise uniformity for the Church (not that those who innovate worship have read or adhere to the confessions) http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2018/07/05/worship-styles-contribute-church-decline/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5923169/Church-England-forced-sell-cathedrals-cover-debts.html

Similar to how they end up in Lutheran churches. https://www.jta.org/2018/07/03/life-religion/synagogues-started-putting-american-flags-sanctuary

Theology matters. https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2018/july/churchgoers-stick-around-for-theology-not-music-or-preacher.html

It’s NOT the faithful preaching of the pure Gospel and right administration of the Sacraments. https://www.lutheranworld.org/news/passion-church-and-world

Evil. https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/elca-pastor-preaches-the-beauty-of-queerness-and-universalism-to-31000-lutheran-teenagers