Showing posts with label Reformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reformation. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Downton Abbey—a look back

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Downton Abbey was a delight as a TV series, and I hope to see the movie. But have you ever wondered why the Grantham family were living in a...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

All Saints and Reformation Sundays

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We had such a fabulous music selection on Reformation Sunday—choir, organ, brass.  I don’t know how these things are planned, if there is a ...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Celebrating the Reformation

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Upper Arlington Lutheran Church (UALC) is observing the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. We (at Lytham Road campus) had a great sermo...
Monday, June 26, 2017

How to lose your audience

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What if each time you tuned into watch Downton Abbey you got a blow by blow detailed history of how the English Reformation under King Henry...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

May 15, 1525, The Peasants' War

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It’s only recently I learned about the Peasants’ War which began in May 1525. Imagine. Forty years as a Lutheran, and not a word or sermon ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Luther and Trump

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If you know your church history, you know that Martin Luther split the church by deciding that Scripture meant what he said it meant, not ...
Saturday, March 05, 2016

The Reformation and the response of the Council of Trent

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The Council of Trent addressed the two biggest issues of the Protestant Reformation--justification and original sin.  Father Robert Barron--...