Along Park Blvd, barely outside my San Diego neighborhood of University Heights, is a church I hadn’t stopped to regard—until yesterday. I simply don’t walk that way often enough to have noticed the stately structure.
Near as I can gather from the official website, Grace Lutheran is a family-oriented, traditional Christian church located in an area where other places of worship cater more to the licentious, cultural mob than to God.
There is something fitting—think metaphor—about presenting the Featured Image of the church’s sign in black and white. Meaning: Wrong and right, so there is no misunderstanding about the allusion. By the grace of God, there is no grey area, as some—ah, progressive—faith-seekers want to believe about living any way they want without consequences.
This church clings to traditional Biblical beliefs, near as I can tell. Consider origins: In the 16th Century, Martin Luther rebelled against Catholic indulgences that were sold as get-out-of-Hell cards, so to speak. Pay up, and sin, sin, sin. Lutherans should stand for founding values that are irreconcilable with “love is love” proponents who assert God forgives everything and therefore they can live however they want, particularly with respect to gender and sexuality.
Really? Give my regards to the Devil when you arrive in Hell.
Photo vitals, aperture manually set: f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/2000 sec, 28mm; 1:42 p.m. PDT. Camera: Leica Q2 Monochrom.