Lutheran Witness: January 2026
The January issue explores Christian leisure, the Sabbath and the Third Commandment.
The Magazine
Hands, Channels and Means
Only a person who rests fully in Christ’s righteousness can serve his neighbor with delight, in the fullest sense of the word.
Leisure in Our Lord: Twelfth Night Feast
Across Christendom, the night before the light of Epiphany is a wonderful occasion set aside for Christian joy.
Rest from Our Labors, Rest from Our Screens?
Leisure, in its historical usage, was about advancing ourselves in ways that foster a life of faith toward God and love toward neighbor.
‘Abounding in the Word’: Looking Forward
If you’ve been around as long as me, you’ll note we have enjoyed great, even dramatic improvement in the Synod’s life of doctrine and practice.
The Thing Around Which Everything Else Must Move
We simply cannot treat anything without Christ’s promise of permanence as the thing around which everything else must move.
Lutheran Witness: December 2025
The December issue is all about tradition and traditions.
Advent and Christmas: Mincemeat Pies
A long-standing custom of Christmastide is the baking of mincemeat pies, a tradition reaching back to the 11th century.
‘I Delivered to You What I Also Received’: Tradition and the Gospel
Tradition is a good thing, provided it does not contradict the Gospel and the Word of God, which is, after all, itself divine tradition.
Tradition: Blessing, Burden or Both?
We should examine all traditions in light of Scripture.
God’s Work, Our Witness
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.”
Lutheran Witness: November 2025
The November issue discusses the church’s mission in our own land and around the world.