The Latest Articles
The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
‘Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming’: A Hymnwriter Shares His Favorite Christmas Hymn
This hymn beautifully evokes the mystery of the Incarnation that we celebrate each Christmas.
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Poor sinners, royal priests
What exactly is the “priesthood of all believers”? And what does it mean for us?
The reason for every season
Christmas and Advent are also about Christ’s coming in Word and Sacrament today, and about living in eager, joyful anticipation of His second coming.
A crèche “crisis” averted
Let us join the Holy Family and shepherds and angels in focusing our gaze on the babe in the crib, on the greatest Gift of God, born to bear all our sins and give us eternal life.
O give thanks to the Lord
The atoning death of Christ is the fount of Christian thanksgiving.
Breaking the back-sitting Lutheran
Who could think of Lutherans without thinking of a people possessed of an unflagging, unabating, almost obsessive desire to sit in the back of the church during worship?
Serving with varied grace
“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord.”