"Throwing around false accusations about the eighth commandment cheapens the actual times we all break the eighth commandment. Like an unenforced speed limit or eighteenth century law about watering a mule in the city limits, it just turns the actual law into a joke. Worse, it is an attempt to control the behavior of others because they may be writing or saying something disagreeable. It is an example of Augustine’s “libido dominanadi,” the “lust for domination.” And since we can’t be hauled into court in the LCMS and bled dry of money by having to hire a canon lawyer, the best we can do is to assault someone’s reputation and try to destroy him. I suppose I would rather the latter be done to me than the former, but it is still the same idea with a different set of weapons. In some cases, church discipline may even be used as a form of lawfare to pressure or silence a whistleblower. To say that this can never “(never? No never!”) happen in the LCMS is to deny original sin."

"What exactly are evangelical Christians worshipping when they so slavishly worship the government of Israel? They are not worshipping God or Godliness – just the opposite. They are worshipping the kind of people described by George Washington in his Farewell Address as “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men.” Ordinary politicians, in other words."

"The “whatever it takes” crowd calls their worship “contemporary” (somewhat akin to how Madonna dresses like a teenager), but it smacks of desperation to lie about one’s age. Far from being contemporary, God’s people have been doing “whatever it takes for the sake of God’s kingdom” from ancient times. “We want to be like the other nations,” they said to Samuel. “Give us a king!” Samuel warned them, but they insisted: “Whatever it takes for the kingdom of God!”—including, apparently, removing God from being King over His own kingdom."

"To summarize: Kellyanne Conway, an allegedly pro-life adviser to Donald Trump, claimed that the pro-life position is not that unique, whole, unrepeatable human beings must be protected from conception. Instead, she articulated what appears to be the emerging GOP position: that there is little difference between being “pro-life” and being “pro-choice,” and that protecting unborn children during the early stages of pregnancy—when most abortions occur—is an extremist position."

"People come to Lutheran churches because they want to be Lutheran. They want their children to hear the Word alongside their parents and not kicked out to some “children’s church” with bouncy houses and curly slides."

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