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“Then in Distress We Upraise” (1)
Time for another “Melanchthon Monday”! Now, you may be surprised, given that today’s poem is not (um) by Melanchthon. But wait! It still works!…

Nevin the Organic Progressive
My last post on Nevin won the hearts and minds of all reasonable men, and so I thought I would do well to add…

Face It, Nevin Was Nuts
When I was in seminary, the Mercersburg theology of Philip Schaff and John Williamson Nevin was enjoying a significant revival. Lots of books, masters…

On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 4: Why the Man/Machine Relation is a Man/Man Relation)
13. Taking the mid 19th century as our point of departure in understanding modernity, I have (so far) focused merely on the question of…

Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa 1530)
In Joseph Herl’s excellent Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict, he quotes Luther responding to his congregation in…