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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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Write for The Lutheran Witness in 2021
Roy S. Askins
Are you a writer? Are you interested in writing for The Lutheran Witness?
The Religiously Remixed
Gene Edward Veith
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we do not live in an increasingly secularized, materialist society. Rather, we live in a society in which people are ...
Praying Colors, Morning and Evening
Rachel Bomberger
I first encountered morning and evening colors at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island.
Share my Suffering?
Tab Ottmers
My body is diseased, and I am suffering with an illness, but I do not want to burden my children or my church with it. ...
Who is Jesus?
Gene Edward Veith
Jesus asked, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” (Matt. 16:13). That is a very important question.
The Jesus Prayer
William Weedon
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, the sinner. Whence it first arose is a matter of some debate among scholars ...








