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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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Lutherans? Reformed? A Thumbnail History
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by Dr. Albert B. Collver In John 17:11, Jesus prayed to His Father that the Church “may be one, even as ...
Distance Education Fosters Ministry to Hmong People
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by Sandy Wood Dr. Lang Yang’s story highlights how a flexible, non-traditional route to ordination is expanding the ethnic diversity ...
Equipped for Hawaiian Ministry
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by Sandy Wood Becoming a pastor of a church in Hawaii was not what Rev. Joshua Schneider had in mind ...
Working in Partnership to Assist Haitians
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by Kim Plummer Krull Many Lutheran partners are working cooperatively with LCMS World Relief and Human Care (LCMS WR-HC), LCMS ...
Being Prepared, Lending a Hand
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by Kim Plummer Krull The Haiti earthquake makes us think about how we can help suffering survivors and also about ...
When ‘Wanting to Do the Right Thing’ Might Get You in Trouble
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Haiti, Volunteerism, and a Desire to Help Commentary by Albert B. Collver III and Daniel Mattson The earthquake in Haiti ...


