#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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Chytraeus, the Lutheran theologian, reads 1 John with unnerving clarity: to refuse love is already a kind of death. Christ’s self-giving redefines what life looks like, and when we seal our hearts against need, we quietly deny that love lives in us at all. Love, then, must become concrete—truth taking flesh in action.

How can you show love?
#lutheranchurchmissourisynod #lutheran #usaid #sustainabledevelopment #bibleverse

Luther says “all things are possible”, but this doesn’t mean superpowers, it means you won’t disintegrate if you give things away. Belief makes generosity survivable. Once you realise what you have is gift, not trophy, pride calms down.

Awkwardly, that power is for your neighbour. So… what are you actually willing to put on the table?

#Christian #ChristianManhood #manifestation #hungerrelief #lutheran #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #verseoftheday

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. This pamphlet speaks against communism and socialism, but also surprisingly, makes striking criticisms of greed. One such warning is that no Christian would have their money and heart as one.

Is this a common spiritual warning today?

Where is your heart?

#christian #anticommunism #classicalchristianeducation #yce #wordofgod #lutheran

Petrus Sacharie Nakskow, a Lutheran minster, lists five facts about Dives, the rich man who was uncharitable to Lazarus in Luke 16.

How can you depend on Christ, be sparing in your sumptuous feasts, be charitable to the poor, believe in Christ, and believe Moses and the Prophets?

#wordofgod #godssovereignty #newbirth #solagratia #lutheran #christian

Johann Albrecht Bengel was a #Lutheran pastor who published a Greek New Testament. Here he comments on the Second Greatest Commandment (Matt 22:39). He speaks of a three way relationship between the reader, God, and himself. The mutual love of God to neighbor reinforces and sets an example for love between neighbors. It eliminates selfishness.

Try reading this aloud quickly.

How can you view a neighbor as truly loved?

#christian #prolife #boldfaith #charitable #voiceofgod

wake up babe, #lutherans aren't considered #christians any more (at least not by the #QAnon crew)

https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1885872007062892568

#lutheran #MikeFlynn #ChristianNationalism #conspiracytheorist

Anti-Trans Lutheran Thinks Personal Pronouns are a “Sinful Delusion”
For my own sake, I do my best to avoid the LCMS entirely, but sometimes the world likes to tempt
https://sheseeksnonfiction.blog/2023/07/30/anti-trans-lutheran-thinks-personal-pronouns-are-a-sinful-delusion/
#LGBTQ+Equality #SocialJustice #TheLutheranChurch—MissouriSynod #anti-translutheran #bible #christian #Christianity #lcms #lutheran #lutheranchurch #lutheranchurchmissourisynod #trans #transphobia #transphobic

Is #Theologidons a hashtag folks are using? I found a list of #theologians on #mastodon that used that word. (This is Paul's daughter still searching for more people for "him" to follow!) #Ecology #Ethics #Christianity #Lutheran (ELCA) #CosmicChrist #HistoricalTheology #SystematicTheology #PracticalTheology #Ecojustice #CareForCreation #CaringForCreation #HarvardDivinity #WellesleyCollege #LutheransRestoringCreation #Religidons