Corey J. Mahler — Comments

P: “Do you intend to continue steadfast in this confession and Church and to suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it?”

R: “I do, by the grace of God.“

The Germans were not, in either war, avatars of metaphysical evil, and the same holds for the Russians (even though they fought for a brutally evil Communist regime). It is the absolute worst of jingoism that would fail, at this distance, to note the nuances.

Neither side bears exclusive blame for the World Wars (yes, I mean both), and it is only extreme naïveté that would conclude otherwise. Simplistic explanations are seldom correct.

If you see the World Wars, first and foremost, as anything other than an unfathomably evil and unfortunate war between brothers, then I suspect we’re going to have some disagreements.

I issue a public challenge to those who oppose or decry anything I’ve written or said: Find a conflict with the Scriptures or the Confessions.

I will recant and condemn anything I’ve written or said that is shown to be false.

Some of you pastors are driving away sheep for the sake of approbation from the world; do not forget that you are mere undershepherds, and you will one day answer to the Shepherd.

Pastors, if you cannot answer tough questions on social media, then you have no business being on social media — and you probably shouldn’t be in a pulpit, either.

Democracy has been revealed as a false god — ‘elections are sacred’ — we must now, as Christians, choose how best to respond.

As a Christian, you are not called to speak the truth about one or a few issues, but about all matters. All truth is one, and so are all lies.

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn