The Latest Articles
The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
On ‘Silas Marner’: An Enduring Life
Even though Eppie required everything of him, Silas was broken open in total concern for her and doggedly determined to raise her through childhood.
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On a Lucas Cranach Portrait
Through Cranach’s portraits of Johann Friedrich I over his life, we see the life of Christian suffering depicted.
Marriage and the Gift of Dying to Self
Marriage is not a curse to avoid or put off for a better time. It is a gift that creates a husband and wife and a blessed family.
Our Great Heritage: Bernard of Clairvaux
Though not without error in his life and teaching, this French abbot loved Christ, and his confession of faith rings down through the ages.
Fiction as a Means of Grace?
Good fiction can place the reader into the story in a way that history or news or even systematic theology cannot.
On ‘Anna Karenina’: A prescient critique of sexual disorder
Although he wrote long before the Sexual Revolution, Tolstoy anticipates the tragic effects of such an ethic on human life.
Our Great Heritage: Boniface of Mainz
As missionary to the Germans, he boldly confessed Christ as Lord and paved the way for Christianity to spread through Europe and beyond.