Lutheran Witness: September 2026
The September issue of The Lutheran Witness celebrates and offers practical guidance for learning God’s Word by heart.
Rachel Bomberger
Rachel Bomberger is interim managing editor of The Lutheran Witness. She also co-hosts The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge podcast from KFUO Radio and serves as managing editor for both Journal of Lutheran Mission and SEELSORGER: A Journal for the Contemporary Cure of Souls. A proud Coast Guard mom, she currently lives in Chesapeake, Va., with her Navy chaplain husband and three of her four children.
The Cover We Didn’t Choose
As Lutherans, we believe “that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them” (SC II 1). We confess, moreover, that mankind was created “in the image of God” (Gen. 1:27). Gazing at the empty eyes of the AI “creation,” it was hard to see how this “art” (if such it was) could possibly communicate these glorious and eternal truths.
Lutheran Witness: August 2026
The August issue deals with life in the digital age and the rise of artificial intelligence.
2026 LW Summer Reading Roundup
Writers and editors of The Lutheran Witness share the books they’re excited about this summer.
We Do So Need Our Mothers: On ‘Peter Pan’
The true beauty of “Peter Pan” is a mother’s love.
On the ‘Little House’ Series: Longing for the Promised Land
Homesteading is not the secret to happiness. It’s merely the backdrop against which Ma and Pa joyfully live out their vocations.
On ‘Paradise Lost’: What Temptation Looks Like
Adam and Eve may have been tempted by the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; readers of Paradise Lost are tempted instead by the character of Satan himself.
Don’t Give Up the Ship (and Other Lessons from a Soggy Sailor)
“Ready to tack?” The skipper’s voice cut through the roar of the wind as the prow clunked into yet another wave.
Welcoming ‘Church Shoppers’ in the Holiday Season (and Anytime)
Ah, Christmas: that wonderful time of year when the church music and readings are all comfortably familiar …
‘If We Are Faithless …’
We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?
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 Easter Feast: A Table Laden with Meaning
There is no meal I look forward to as much as our annual Easter feast. My enjoyment of other festive meals always pales in comparison to Easter dinner.