A literary reflection by Davis Smith on Homer’s Odyssey. This is one installment of a monthly series providing reflections on works of literature from a Lutheran perspective. No finer, greater gift in the world than that … when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. –Odyssey, 6.200–202 The …
Falling into the ditches of anxiety and apathy are dangerous, but Jesus is the factor that keeps stewards on the narrow way.
There’s no better way of expressing God’s mission and the church’s part in that mission than through demonstrating “what God does for us and gives to us.”
The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.
This theme of Christ’s coming ties All Saints’ Day to the Last Sunday of the Church Year.
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
When Major Van Rooy stepped off a plane in Japan in early March 2020, he did not yet know the spiritual exile that lay ahead.
The harvest is ripe in Africa. We are praying for laborers.
Catherine and Heathcliff’s pseudo-love is an obsession absolutely turned inward, a snake eating itself which, in its appetite, finds destruction.
Creating human embryos knowing that many will be discarded and killed is a violation of the inherent sanctity of human life.
Created as joyful, then tainted by our sin, the mercies of God have restored work to its original purpose of worship.
Is the human embryo a human being? If so, how should we treat our youngest and most vulnerable neighbor?