The Gottesdienst Crowd

Jason Braaten

We foster confessional integrity, liturgical preservation, and preaching that doesn’t stink.

  1. Oct 7

    TGC 625 – Defending Life in the Courtroom

    Pastor Paul Schultz talks with Martin Cannon, an Omaha attorney who has spent 38 years in state and federal courts defending unborn children, pro-life advocates, religious liberty, and free speech. Much of that work was done pro bono, including years of partnership with the Thomas More Society. Cannon tells how he left the faith as a college student, came back to Christ with his late wife Deborah, and took up the pro-life cause. He walks through some of his notable cases: dozens of defenses at LeRoy Carhart's late-term abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska; the Baby Tabitha case on parental rights and life support; the federal acquittal of Father Westland; a month-and-a-half trial against the New York Attorney General that ended in a 103-page ruling for the Church at the Rock; and the Lauren Handy case, which led to presidential pardons for 23 pro-lifers. The conversation then turns to the present. Cannon explains why the FACE Act should be repealed and why a handwritten letter to your congressman still matters. He argues that after Dobbs the pro-life movement must aim for personhood from conception, and that the new front line is the abortion pill sent by mail. He explains why Louisiana v. FDA could be the biggest pro-life case since Roe, what the industry knows and will not say about abortion pill reversal, and why time on the sidewalk is never wasted. He closes where the battle truly lies. This is not a political contest with spiritual overtones. It is a spiritual war, and prayer is the chief weapon. ----more---- Host: Fr. Paul Schultz Regular Guest: Mr. Martin Cannon ----more---- Become a Patron! You can subscribe to the Journal here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/ You can support Gottesdienst here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/make-a-donation/ As always, we, at The Gottesdienst Crowd, would be honored if you would Subscribe, Rate, and Review. Thanks for listening and thanks for your support.

  2. Sep 9

    TGC 620 – The Shape of Psalter: David, Moses, and Christ

    In this episode, Paul Schultz talks with the Rev. Dr. Adam Hensley, Associate Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, about the deliberate ordering of the Hebrew Psalter. Hensley explains how the five books of Psalms are marked by real editorial seams (not artificial divisions) and traces the influential but flawed thesis of Gerald Wilson, who argued that the Psalter records a shift away from the Davidic covenant toward Moses and a "democratized" covenant applied to the whole people, following Israel's exile and the loss of kingship. Hensley lays out his own thesis in response: rather than the Davidic covenant being democratized, the Mosaic covenant is "royalized." Moses appears throughout the Psalter as the one who diagnoses Israel's sin and intercedes, but never as the one who solves it. That role belongs to the idealized king, the Christ, whose intercession reconciles not only Israel but the nations to God. Drawing on Psalm 89's lament, the Davidic and Solomonic material at the end of Book Two, and the pattern of Moses references through Books Three and Four, Hensley shows how the Psalter's editors kept pointing forward to a greater son of David rather than settling for a Mosaic consolation prize. He connects this to his dissertation, published by T&T Clark as Covenant Relationships and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter. ----more---- Host: Fr. Paul Schultz Guest: Dr. Adam Hensley ----more---- Become a Patron! You can subscribe to the Journal here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/ You can support Gottesdienst here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/make-a-donation/ As always, we, at The Gottesdienst Crowd, would be honored if you would Subscribe, Rate, and Review. Thanks for listening and thanks for your support.

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