How can conspiracy theories become a form of idolatry?

I've written a column for the latest issues etc journal titled

Yes Elvis is dead but God is in his heaven

a pastoral response to conspiracy theories. We'll send it to you for free.

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in the Wittenberg Trail feature Julie Stegamire writes about her path from Methodism to Lutheranism.

The free online issues et cetera journal issues ETC.org We tend to think of matters spiritual as divorced from the physical world.

Spirits after all have no physicality, therefore things spiritual have nothing to do with things physical. physical,

therefore, things spiritual have nothing to do with things physical,

especially something like the human body.

But the truth is, at least according to Holy Scripture,

you cannot separate those two

the spiritual and the physical, and you cannot separate those two the spiritual and the physical and you cannot have

Christian salvation the Christian teaching of salvation through Jesus

Christ without the physical. Welcome back to issues etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about salvation and the body.

Josh Pauling, he's a classical educator,

vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church,

in Charlotte, North Carolina, a columnist for Modern

Reformation and Salvo, and he's author of a forthcoming article for the Lutheran Witness

magazine titled, Blessed is the Fruit of your Womb.

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