Church planting is just one facet of the Synod’s worldwide evangelism effort known as “Ablaze!”

All Kinds of Churches to Reach All Kinds of People.

Eight Lutherans working in the limelight talk about how their faith informs their work.

Celebrating the gifts God gives to His church.

I write to encourage other retired pastors to consider serving as short-term volunteer missionaries. My wife and I returned recently from a wonderful two weeks in Taiwan. We served at Concordia Middle School and Concordia English Language Academy in Chiayi. We were very impressed with the dedicated staff there. Only five or six percent of

Roger Johnson of inner-city Chicago (May “Letters”) is to be commended for his sincere desire to reach people of the world with the Gospel of Christ through his congregation. However, while I am not living the dynamic of his specific parish environment and situation, having lived 35 years in that greater metropolitan area–29 years prior

The Shedding Some Light cartoon in the May issue is not very Lutheran. From what I have been taught in my childhood home, congregational catechism classes, and later at Concordia University, Rain, rain go away, come again another day is a prayer. Helen M. CraigMaryville, Mo.   Read More Letters to the Editor Send letters

I enjoyed the articles on our seminaries and our seminarians in the May issue, and I would like to relate the interesting story behind one seminarian, now a vicar: Mark Larson. The story: Mark was an executive at a nuclear power plant, his wife, Debbie, using her MBA, their two children out of school and