Gene Veith is Martin Luther’s kind of Lutheran: a professor of literature and the provost of Virginia’s Patrick Henry College, and someone who hails the Christian Gospel — not by tacking his theses to a church door, but through multiple books, and his lively Cranach blog, named after Luther’s close friend Lucas Cranach. Veith will be in Washington on Thursday evening to give the inaugural lecture of the Preaching in the Capital series at Christ Reformed Church (6:30-8:30 p.m., 1611 16th St. NW). He shared with The Washington Examiner by e-mail thoughts on faith, vocation and grace.

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