Category Archives: General

Disowning Walther (And Luther, and the Council of Nicea, for that matter)

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Dabitur

C.F.W. Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod (LC-MS). I was very interested to learn that Walther was strongly opposed to usury, and that his definition of usury included the taking of any interest. (Also of … Continue reading →

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An Overview Of Usury

Posted on 6/12/2006 by Dabitur

In this article I will make a brief explanation of what usury is and why it is wrong. I won’t, at least in this article, be able to offer a detailed rebuttal of every possible attempt to justify usury. Such … Continue reading →

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What Saith Agabus Today?

Posted on 5/16/2006 by Dabitur

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the … Continue reading →

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Paging Judge Roberts: Your Bishops Are Calling

Posted on 8/5/2005 by Dabitur

I haven’t been terribly interested in the current nominee for the Supreme Court of the (Forcibly) United States (SCOTUS), John G. Roberts, Jr. So far he seems to have met my low expectations with gusto. But what I really want … Continue reading →

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What To Do In Light Of The Housing Bubble

Posted on 8/4/2005 by Dabitur

MALIBU, Calif. — So wonderfully Californian, Marsha Weidman’s home has it all–along the beach, far from noisy traffic, with a Jacuzzi used to watch sunsets over the Pacific. For this, she and her husband recently paid $1.05 million. For that, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Agrarianism – The Answer To The Debt Bubble

Posted on 8/3/2005 by Dabitur

[This post was written by Reverend Thomas C. McConnell. You can send your gracious comments, questions, and feedback directly to him using the contact information at the end of the article, or you can leave your comments here in the … Continue reading →

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Judge Parker’s Dissenting Opinion

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Dabitur

For anyone interested, here is the full text of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker’s dissenting opinion in the recent case concerning child-custody issues. A friend of mine pointed out that “if you count the votes (easier to do with … Continue reading →

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Learn Not The Economic Ways Of The Heathen

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Dabitur

Mike Whitney of Dissident Voices tells about his conclusions regarding the housing bubble: I sold my home three weeks ago anticipating what I believe will be “Economic Armageddon” in the United States. It wasn’t an easy thing to do. My … Continue reading →

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Alabama Supreme Court Cites Bible In Stripping Away Parental Rights

Posted on 8/1/2005 by Dabitur

Last Friday an interesting decision was handed down by the Alabama Supreme Court concerning a child custody dispute, which greatly expanded the ability of the state to declare parents unfit and award custody to other parties. Interestingly, the Bible was … Continue reading →

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Greenspan’s Plan

Posted on 7/29/2005 by Dabitur

In my reading this evening I came across Alan Greenspan’s excellent argument for putting our money into hard assets: In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no … Continue reading →

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