Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” “The time is fulfilled for the German people of Hitler. It is because of Hitler that Christ, God the helper and redeemer, […]

SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE Editorial: The Great Single-Payer Debate Feature articles:  Envisioning single payer; California single-payer pros and cons; SB 562: CMA opposes unless amended; H-PEACE: health care activism. Departments: Letter from the executive director; interview, SCMA president Peter Sybert, MD; open clinical trials in Sonoma County; clinical fasting; mystery case: nocturnal leg cramps; Book review: […]

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The National Health Service (NHS) has restricted elective surgery such as obesity surgery to patients that have lost a certain amount of weight on their own prior to being approved for the operation. It has further restricted treatment for other diseases until cigarette smokers have ceased smoking for 8 months.

“Lutheran socialism” finds secular expression in the welfare states of Scandinavia and Germany. The attempt to arrive at a balanced and objective understanding of the relationship between the German Protestant church, which is predominantly Lutheran, and the rise of National Socialism is an almost impossible task today. For what we now hear about the Protestant […]

Luther Country’ in Germany marks 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation Amy S. Eckert | Chicago Tribune For the world’s roughly 800 million Protestants, a small corner of eastern Germany is their spiritual home — a place that takes on added importance this year, the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Covering an area roughly 150 […]

October 31, 2017, the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. A lone monk’s actions 500 years ago continue to have a great impact. Hear from some of the world’s greatest scholars on Martin Luther and the significance of the Reformation for our modern world in “500: The Impact of the Reformation Today,” a documentary that […]

The 500th anniversary of the 95 theses finds a country as moralistic as ever The Economist | Print edition | Europe | Jan 7th 2017 SET foot in Germany this year and you are likely to encounter the jowly, dour portrait of Martin Luther. With more than 1,000 events in 100 locations, the whole nation is […]

His message to America: Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all. Peggy Noonan | WSJ | Jan. 20, 2017 I was more moved than I expected. Then more startled. The old forms and traditions, the bands and bunting, endured. I thought, as I watched the inauguration: It continues. There […]