Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Tradition

  • CATECHESIS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

    Catechesis The question, put to me by a former student of mine, was about catechesis—systematic instruction in the faith. We would not have called it that. We called it “catechism.” We went to catechism. I began going to catechism somewhere around second grade. Our first catechism books were pared down versions of the Heidelberg Catechism,…

  • TRADITION

    “Tradition!” Tevye, the milkman sings at the beginning of Fiddler on the Roof. It’s a great beginning, as Tevye walks us through his village and points out how things are done and why. Well, not why. Tevye mostly doesn’t know why they do things the way they do. It’s just what they have always done.  Despite the song,…

  • CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE FAILURE OF PROTESTANTISM

    “What keeps gnawing at me,” he writes, “is the question, what is Christianity, or who is Christ actually for us today?” (Letters and Papers from Prison, Kindle edition, page 353). Compared to what Bonhoeffer was going through in April of 1944, for those of living in the US or Canada these are easy times. True,…