#lutheran — Public Fediverse posts

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2- Truth is... (for me + similar people)
By #TimBray

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Truth

2- Doing #Money Differently:

https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/doing-money-differently.pdf

By Hugh Barnard #Degrowth etc

3- Humour - old ways of insulting people:

- #Shakespearean #Insulter
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?

- #Lutheran #Insulter
https://ergofabulous.org/luther/

Gerhard—Lutheran scholastic theologian—identifies a contradiction worth sitting with. You wish to be a son of God, yet refuse to own God’s other sons as your brothers. He resolves the question of worthiness neatly: if the person deserves love, love them for that. If they don’t, love them because God—who does deserve everything—commands it. Even loving an enemy demonstrates friendship with God. The logic is airtight. The application is, apparently, optional.

#christian #lutheran #fellowship

Baugher reads Luke 16 with irritation: the rich man, condemned to hell, still tries ordering Lazarus about, as though nothing changed but his location. His heart stayed the same—still despising Moses. Today that charge gets redirected at those who suggest the rich should behave differently. The original target evades it entirely.

#lutheranchurchmissourisynod #lutheran #bible #lazarus #serviceeconomy #gospel #gettysburgseminary

last blogpost (for now) on the outbreak of #Lutheran #clergymen in my #familyhistory: an overview sorted by time of discovery https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/clerical-connections.html

#genealogy #reformation #churchHistory #germany

Luther on 1 Peter 1:22: why live a chaste and holy life? Not to earn salvation—to be useful to your neighbor. A pure life makes one more useful; it’s harder to be useful when consumed by messing around. The love here is usefulness to the neighbor, ideally recognized as such by them. Not scolding them about their unchastity and calling that love. Luther would have noticed the difference.

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #service #neighborlove

Luther observes that the communicants filing to the Lord’s Supper on Sunday are, by Monday, scraping, grabbing, and scratching across every level of society. He finds this a sin and a shame. Today we’ve tidied this up considerably: one may join a party that deplores poor scratchers, or one that deplores rich grabbers, and in either case feel entirely absolved. Luther, characteristically, was not offering that option.

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #greed #communion #christian

The vicar of #Rimbach (#Odenwald) is the last one in this #familyHistory series (for now). Interesting example of #migration in the aftermath of the #ThirtyYearsWar.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/adam-getrost.html

#genealogy #germany #history #clergy #Lutheran #churchHistory #Michelstadt #Zotzenbach

I'm intrigued by the photo here, highly coloured decoration in the Cistercian monastery of Wienhausen - & the note that in Germany "many medieval artworks have endured not despite, but thanks to the Lutheran Reformation." Upcoming talk:
https://www.medievalart.org/icma-news/icma-lecture-barcelona-2026
@medievodons

#medieval #Lutheran #Cistercian

Jacobs—Lutheran, Pennsylvania, 1897—worries his church lacks resources for its mission. Note who he expects it to serve: needy immigrants and people scarcely recovered from servitude. Two observations: he considers slavery’s effects still present thirty years after abolition—modern conservatism dates that conversation’s expiry to 1865. And he wants to build churches for immigrants. Current religiosity has rather different priorities.

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #immigration

I've reached the bottom of the big barrel of #Lutheran #clergy in my #familyHistory in the Upper County of #Sponheim now with one very speculative case hailing from #trarbach (there is still one stray clergymen in the pipeline from a completely unrelated branch)

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-metzlers-of-trarbach.html #germany #genealogy #churchHistory #reformation

Russisches Militär zerstört alte lutherische Kirche

https://friendica.tf-translate.net/display/cafe12d9-226a-195e-66d4-9b2688014148

Gossner—German Reformed and Lutheran minister—lists the components of divine service without apparent hierarchy. Suffer. Praise God. Preach the Gospel. Love the neighbor. Visit the widow and fatherless in their affliction. Keep unspotted from the world. It’s a complete list. One notes that contemporary spokesmen for historic conservative Christianity tend to cover some items more thoroughly than others, and develop considerable theological ingenuity around the remainder.

#reformed #lutheran

another #Lutheran clergyman popped up in my #familyHistory: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-valiant-vicars-deputy-and-successor.html #genealogy #churchhistory #reformation #germany #Kirn

Some newly acquired relatives who were quite famous in the early 18th century: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-arnoldi-clan.html #familyHistory #lutheran #churchHistory #theology #genealogy #reformation

#Lutheran #clergy in the centuries after the #reformation was a dense family network. Not only did the priests aspire that at least one son followed in their profession, they also networked to ensure their daughters married clergymen. In today's blog entry I've written up some of the resulting #matrilines in my #familyhistory.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-women-of-reformation.html

#history #churchHistory #protestantism

May the Fourth be with you! 😆

#lutheran #maythefourth #maythe4th #funny

Luther—expounding Philippians 4, not offering suggestions—says that even someone actively harming you deserves the best possible interpretation of their actions. He cites a martyr who, stripped of everything, noted that Christ remained. Therefore: this injury touches not my faith, so why not excuse it? Why not accommodate? One observes that several prominent spiritual leaders currently model something considerably less accommodating. Luther would have noticed. He would have had words.

#Lutheran

Niels Hemmingsen—Danish Lutheran theologian, not widely remembered but sharper than most—lists the rich man’s faults in Luke 16. Third on the list: disdaining Lazarus. Which, Hemmingsen says, proved he had no faith. Where true faith exists, cruelty toward the poor cannot. The logic is simple: you only walk past a starving person because you disdain them. We rush to help a fallen elderly stranger. The rough sleeper, somehow, is an inconvenience. Worth examining that distinction.
#lutheran #faith

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Easter Oratorio ✧

The Easter Oratorio, BWV 249, is one of three oratorios composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for high holiday services of the Lutheran church in Leipzig. He wrote an autograph score (page pictured) in 1738, but had already composed the music in 1725 for two works: the congratulatory Shepherd Cantata and a church cantata for Easter. The ...

#easteroratorio #bwv #lutheran #leipzig #baroque #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Oratorio

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

In 1607, two #Lutheran clergymen sharing the surname Andreae came to work in the small town of #Kastellaun (#Hunsrück). One, 20-something, as the schoolmaster, the other, 75, as the vicar. Were they related? https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/03/understanding-andreae-connection.html
#familyhistory #genealogy #reformation #clergy #Germany

Martin Luther taught that covetousness—the restless desire for more—must be put to death. The Christian test is plain: the Golden Rule, dealing with others as we would be dealt with, the foundation of equity and justice.

Yet today complaints of unfairness are often dismissed as envy, and the charge of coveting is turned upon the complainant rather than the sin.

#lutheran #lcms #tencommandments #christian #equity #justice

Martin Luther basically says every Christian hosts a daily argument between “Old Adam” and a conscience trained by Scripture. One wants holiness; the other wants snacks, shortcuts, and another pint. True faith trains the heart to praise Christ, serve neighbors, and stop cheating people. Beer optional. Moses still teaching.

#lcms #lutheran #holiness #neighbor #moses

Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #missionaries

Martin Luther, explaining Matthew 5, presses Christ’s words to their limit: if devotion interferes with love of neighbor, devotion must wait. Luther even says God would rather see no church built than a neighbor neglected. The obstacle to worship, he suggests, may be the grievance our neglect creates. How will you seek reconciliation where duty and devotion collide?

#lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #neighbor #worship #faith #christian #community #devotion

Andreas Hyperius, a 16th-century Flemish Lutheran/Reformed theologian, reads “You shall not steal” with unnerving specificity: withholding wages, shaving pay, defaulting on what is owed. His moral clarity assumes obedience reaches into ordinary economic life—even where raising such concerns makes people bristle. Scripture leaves little room for comfortable evasions.

#christian #lutheran #reformedscholastics #faith #tencommandments

Luther says a Christian doesn’t curl up like a house cat and call it faith. You stretch. By faith, you reach up into God like a tree grabbing sunlight; by love, you reach down into your neighbour like roots in everyone’s garden. If you’re only growing upward, you’re basically a very holy stick.

#ChristianYoga #FaithAndFlexibility #RootedAndReaching #StretchYourTheology #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #lutheran #christian #faith