Should Lutheran Ministers Be Called “Father”?
“Yes.” (Travis Heide, “Should Lutheran Ministers Be Called ‘Father’?”) All facetiousness aside, an overwhelming number of honorific titles (or “styles”)…
Category: History
The Case for Mary (’s Perpetual Virginity)
One point of contention which still divides Christians is the perpetual virginity of Mary (that is, in Latin, the doctrine…
Are We Living in Earth’s Final Hours? (Part 1)
By way of introduction: I am Rev. Travis Heide, pastor at Mt. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church in Swift Current, Saskatchewan….
The Waltherian Tradition of Ministry (Part I)
Why the Apostolic Succession Debate Matters (Rev. Heath R. Curtis) The “Waltherian Tradition” Defined C. F. W. Walther (1811-1877) was…
Church Fathers on the Real Presence
Ancient Church Pre-Nicaea Ignatius of Antioch (~110): “They abstain from the Eucharist and prayer, because they refuse to acknowledge that…
The Augsburg Confession & the Heresies It Condemns
One of Martin Luther’s lifelong opponents was a theologian named Johann Eck. Eck became one of the Roman Catholic Church’s…