by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 4, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
When it comes to current events Christians too frequently fall into one of the twin ditches of either allowing themselves to become spokespeople for one of the approved cultural positions (usually either “conservative” or “liberal”) or withdrawing from the world in...
by St James Lutheran Church | Feb 4, 2024 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The content of movies has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. What once was considered offensive and even pornographic is now commonplace. The false dichotomy of either mindlessly enjoying all contemporary media or withdrawing from and rejecting it undermines...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 19, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Our first impulse when someone we know and love goes through a season of suffering tends to be either to try to assert ourselves too much – by talking too much, using trite cliches, or by trying to cheer our friend up by distracting them, or by avoiding them...
by St James Lutheran Church | Dec 5, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The two most common notions in the West of what makes a man masculine are, on one hand, a physically strong, domineering man who leads through sheer force of physicality or personality and, on the other hand, a sweet, sensitive man who refuses to assert himself. Both...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 21, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Western Liberalism of John Locke, Rousseau, and the founding fathers of America, promised to set us free from the tyranny of kings and priests. That the God of the Christian Bible would be a casualty in this great purge seemed to many to be a necessary step on...
by St James Lutheran Church | Nov 7, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The separation of church and state is taken for granted in the current West, but this sort of division between a person’s religious beliefs and his or her public persona finds no place in the biblical worldview. So how are Christians supposed to think about their...
