Happy All Saints’ Day! For the occasion, two prayers from Georg Major’s book of songs, hymns, and prayers.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
Happy Reformation Day!
Two prayers from Wilhelm Löhe for the Festival of the Reformation.
“One Generation Passeth Away, and Another Generation Cometh”: On the Inevitability of Oblivion
Some thoughts on the destruction that time wreaks.
Luther on Children at the Lord’s Supper
Should children come to the sacrament of the altar? Luther responds.
Melanchthon’s “A Summary of Moral Philosophy”: A Sneak Peek
An excerpt from my forthcoming translation of one of Philip Melanchthon’s philosophy textbooks.
Melanchthon Gets a Theology Degree
A new translation of the theses from Philip Melanchthon’s 1519 disputation for his theology degree.
Philip Melanchthon on Heroic Impulses
An excerpt from Melanchthon on virtuous heroism.
Another Epigram of Buchanan: Icones 4
The fourth of George Buchanan’s Neo-Latin ICONES.
On a Poem by (or Not by) Emily Dickinson
On Emily Dickinson’s “Safe in their alabaster chambers.”
A.M. Juster’s Scandinavian Homesick Blues
On a Bob Dylan parody by A.M. Juster.