Theologue Any Lutheran pastor worth his salt will tell you that one of the mainstays of effective Christian witness is apologetics; “defense of one’s faith” is more than martyrdom—it means being able to provide a theologically sound explanation or exposition of the truth in the face of non-truth. We Lutherans are often misunderstood as a bunch of medieval rebels who somehow repackaged (and rebranded) Roman Catholic worship culture and tradition into a Pope-less free-for-all behind a disgruntled and temperamental Martin Luther. Yet one of the most idiosyncratic Lutheran traits to come out of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago is the ...