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Grace, Set Upside Down

27 Aug 2026 6 min read essays

Listen to this essay 0:008:19 ▶ Listen to this essay read by the author (MP3, 8 min) Subscribe to the podcast:Apple PodcastsAmazon MusicSpotifyMiscellany on CastopodRSS Sometime in 1845, in a print

Unto Each One According to His Faith

25 Aug 2026 37 min read church history

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.