The Latest Articles
The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
Book Review: ‘Are We All Cyborgs Now? Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine’
This new book, co-authored by an LCMS student of theology, offers a solution to our digital technology predicament: life together in the church.
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‘If We Are Faithless …’
We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?
Funerals Have Changed
More than 25 years ago, a funeral was simply a funeral; they were all the same. The visitation happened at the funeral home …
Book Review: ‘Overcoming Life’s Sorrows’ by R. Reed Lessing
Despite our best efforts to avoid them, pain and suffering appear in our lives. Lessing reminds us: “Exile doesn’t negate God’s promises.”
God Bless You
I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to mediate the heated dispute between two neighbors on the jogging trail that day.
The Ballad of Baby Peach
When we welcome the three-legged chickens, we very often find ourselves surprised and delighted by the ways God blesses our lives.
When Your Pastor Gets Deployed
Advice from LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces on the steps a congregation should take at each stage of their pastor’s deployment.