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 So I've watched it happen over the course of my 30-year ministry. Funeral

practices have changed. When I started as young pastor, very few people were cremated. Now it's quite

common for cremations to be the way that the body is dealt with after death. Now Christians of a bygone era would have found that

remarkable. Some of them would have found it offensive and while these

practices do not in and of themselves necessarily speak against the Christian

confession. We do need to talk about how they may do that and how the

changing funeral practices more generally may speak against the Christian

confession. Welcome back to issues, etc.

Joining us to talk about the Christian Confession and Funeral Practices.

Josh Pauling, he's a classical educator.

He's vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church in Charlotte, North Carolina,

a columnist for Modern Reformation

in Salvo, and author of a column for Touchstone magazine titled,

Burial Plots Christian Tradition is a subversive witness against modern funeral practices. Josh welcome back.

Hey, good to talk with you, Todd. Why do Christians care about the

treatment of the body after death? Well, because the body is central to

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