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Paul Schaefer was a NAZI veteran who lost his job as a youth pastor with the Free Evangelical church in Germany due to accusations over the way he treated boys in his care. He set out on his own with an acoustic guitar and a pair of lederhosen and somehow managed to convince hundreds of [...]

Last Saturday I drank my morning coffee and answered questions from the commentator “Can’t Find My Trousers” about whether Martin Luther was a nominalist. Whatever that is. Now here I am with coffee in hand and laundry in process and there are more nominalist-related comments from Trousers.

So to recap, luther wasnt influenced by the nominalists [...]

Inspired by Anna, the three best things that have happened in the last few days are:
Realising that Stig will be home in 15 days! Boo to mission far away. Yay to coming home to live in salubrious comfort.
Dinner in the Wylie household which was delicious but also included the joy of seeing Sharn lose all [...]

Jansenism is a Catholic heresy that seems strangely like Calvinism to my eyes. It says that in the Fall human beings lost clarity in reason to the extent that it ought not to be trusted, that salvation is by faith through grace and it is irresistible. It was for this reason that it was deemed [...]

Considering my moral theology course I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this quote from Richard Gula:
Is recourse to the Bible in the moral life possible? Yes. But it is very difficult.
Is it necessary? Absolutely.
In what ways (if at all) do you see the Bible as a moral guide?
Your Correspondent, Borrowed 3 people [...]

Spend the first 9 watching this amazing, beautiful rotorscope animation by an ordinary decent Irishman named Eoin Ryan. It is stunning.

Then read this article which shows again why The Atlantic is the best magazine in the world. Bruce Schneier has always been clear that post-9/11 security protocols are just theatre. If that was ever in [...]

In a previous post a commentator asked me to share an opinion on a preface to Paul’s Letter to the Romans that he found in his Christian Community Bible. It had argued that Romans was read by Luther through a nominalist lens, which argues that “nothing is good or bad in itself but only if [...]

So a commentator on Zoomtard asks me to interpret this introduction to Romans.
” we have said however that this letter had its roots in Paul’s experience as a Jew, a Pharisee and an apostle called directly by Christ. It is from that point that Paul spoke of sin and justification, of call, of salvation through [...]

In the midst of holding down the old church job and keeping my woman happy and learning Greek, I have little time to blog. Apologies. Someone step up to the plate and fill in the gap. So in the absence of content (I have ideas up the ying yang but no time!), here are some [...]

My dear friend Wylie commented on a recent post:
…and i do not know who daniel dennet is (although i guess i could google it right now!) are you saying that trying to form arguments that God exists is a waste of time because knowledge of God is innate? Why were the classical arguments forged? who [...]