Albert Collver, Ph.D. — Lutheran theologian, podcaster, and lifelong coder since the '90s shareware era. I build free, open-source tools like CastPolish, liturgical software, and family-history projects. All local, no cloud.
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Lector is Latin for reader, from
The words “public” and “of Scripture” are in every modern Bible at 1 Timothy 4:13. Neither is in Paul’s Greek — a history of the phrase, from a Wittenberg classroom in 1528 to the English Bibles of 1901–1946 to the convention floor of 2026.
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On Sunday, July 21, 1861, the
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The Declaration of Grace, the Absolution, and a five-hundred-year argument — from the medieval Offene Schuld to Luther's own 1540 formula to page 203 of Lutheran Service Book.
