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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2009
Meeting August 17-23, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is now in session. On the docket for deliberation is the church’s proposed social statement on sexuality, Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust. The church is expected to vote on the proposal this Friday. From the ELCA News Service: [Speaking to the Assembly,] [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2009
Station KUOW reports that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire signed a bill today extending the legal rights of married couples to gay and lesbian couples. Noted Gregoire, It is time for all us here in the state of Washington to stand up and say, ‘We stand for justice. And we stand for shared responsibility to [...]
Posted in Philosophy on May 6th, 2009
What is the Twentieth-Century Project? The Twentieth-Century Project (TCP) is the attempt by late nineteenth through early twenty-first century Lutheran theologians to salvage and/or make relevant Lutheranism by accommodating, in varying degrees, contemporary science, philosophy, history, sociology, and culture. Philosophical influences of the TCP stretch back to the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, which sought [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2009
Check out this, then this insightful April 6 The New York Times op/ed piece from David Brooks. Nice to know that others are finding less and less rationality–or philosophy–in our culture, too. Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. Thanks [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.