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The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
On ‘The Machine Stops’: ‘You Are Beginning to Worship the Machine’
Through adoration, acedia and atrophy, Forster perceives how the machine age exerts power over our relationships, our religion, our reality, and even our bodies.
Joshua Pauling
August 11, 2026
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Marriage and the Gift of Dying to Self
Matthew Richard
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 ...
Our Great Heritage: Bernard of Clairvaux
Molly Lackey
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?
Eric Andræ
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
Joshua Pauling
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
Molly Lackey
As missionary to the Germans, he boldly confessed Christ as Lord and paved the way for Christianity to spread through Europe and beyond.
Liturgy Brings Order to Our Disorder
Leah Bromen
Liturgy roots Christians in God's Word, equipping them for life, witness and vocation.








