The danger of living too long

There is a helpful article on Martin Luther’s rather poisonous anti-semitism in “The Theologian” (Click Here),

To people - like me - who see him as a hero this is a big embarrassment. It is even more embarrassing than his strident and unchristian language in relation to the Anabaptists (to whom we owe so much).

ML definitely got a lot more ratty as he got older. I note that John Wesley lived long enough to embed his perfectionism and Arminianism deep into the Evangelical Movement. I sometimes wonder if they both lived a couple of decades too long.

I can detect the same tendencies in myself. Will someone say the same about me I wonder?

Blues, life and redemption

There is a website in the USA which every few months throws up some really interesting stuff - Reformation 21 - and now they have an article on something which I care about and yet have never really expressed.  Blues music has made a big impression on me.  Although I rarely blow them on my harmonica now I still find that is the music I hum or sing when I am alone.

The article shows that a theology which can only sing hymns and choruses but not sing the blues is shallow and cheap.  The guy who wrote it has a book on the subject coming out - that has to be a purchase.

Click here to read the article.