Minnesotan Michelle Bachmann is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House. She’s a member of a congregation affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Media coverage of her campaign has delved into religion repeatedly but I couldn’t quite find the time to mention it here.
A few weeks ago, some Lutheran readers here sent along some articles about the way she was campaigning. Lutherans tend to follow the practice of the Two Kingdoms, which for our purposes can be described as the view that worship is so important and sacred that it shouldn’t be mixed with earthly political machinations. But Bachman delivered a speech one Sunday from the stage of a nondenominational church center, claiming that God wanted her to run for office and that she was a fool for Christ. That’s not what you might expect from a confessional Lutheran.Mrs. Ziegler’s take on religious reporting is always useful. She also looks at media through Lutheran lenses. Read the rest of the article for more about this story.
I had a nice 80+ year-old widow ask me last night at the retirement home who Protestants are. She is Roman Catholic. How appropo for the day after Reformation Day! What she thought would be a short answer was a 15 minute abbreviated Reformation history lesson. I think more Roman Catholics could use this lesson. She had absolutely no clue that people have openly tried to reform her church from error. Wow!
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