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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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Living Together Before Marriage
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by Richard C. Eyer As I sat in the waiting room thumbing through the only magazines available–women’s magazines–I skimmed an ...
Buy the Field!
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by R. Reed Lessing The year is 588 B.C. and Nebuchadnezzar, the great Babylonian king, is establishing his headquarters at ...
Would St. Paul Work at Starbucks? Going Where the People Are
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by Dave Ficken Living with the Gospel in church is often comfortable. But in an age when people no longer ...
What Do You Crave?
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A coffeehouse offers ‘Peace, Coffee, More’ … and conversations about Jesus by Roland Lovstad At the crossroads of a university ...
Pastors Are People, Too
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by Gary J. Ellul When you picture a pastor, what do you see? My oldest daughter recently told me how ...
What’s New at Our Concordias?
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Our LCMS colleges and universities are responding to needs in their communities.



