On ‘Moby Dick’: Grappling with the Book of Nature
A literary reflection on Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”
Articles
Seeing Stewardship Through the Proper Lens
Viewing stewardship through the lens of the Gospel gives its full picture as both the source and purpose of stewardship.
All Things New
With all the “newness” of January, we remember that ours begins in the newness of the Gospel in Jesus.
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.
Restored to the Original: Steward the Gospel
Despite the first steward’s failings, all stewards are restored by God’s mercy and grace to their one task of stewardship: stewarding the Gospel!
On the ‘Odyssey’: The Joy of Redemption
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
Staying Out of the Ditches
Falling into the ditches of anxiety and apathy are dangerous, but Jesus is the factor that keeps stewards on the narrow way.
On ‘Wuthering Heights’: The destruction of love turned inward
Catherine and Heathcliff’s pseudo-love is an obsession absolutely turned inward, a snake eating itself which, in its appetite, finds destruction.
On IVF: A Lutheran Theological Perspective
Creating human embryos knowing that many will be discarded and killed is a violation of the inherent sanctity of human life.
The Godly Activity of Work
Created as joyful, then tainted by our sin, the mercies of God have restored work to its original purpose of worship.
On IVF: A Lutheran Medical Perspective
Is the human embryo a human being? If so, how should we treat our youngest and most vulnerable neighbor?
On ‘My Ántonia’: Bodily Life as Fallen and Redeemed Creatures
My Ántonia invites the reader to look closely at one life, so closely that it becomes a window for looking at one’s own life, and every human life.