Broken Community: Fifty Years After the Walkout
Our theology has consequences. What is taught in college and seminary classrooms filters down into the preaching and life of the church.
The Magazine
Filled to Overflowing
Faith is the “sack” that receives and holds the gift of the Gospel.
What Is Worship?
Gathered around the Word Welcome to worship, where things look and sound different from much of what you experience in your everyday life. You will use some difficult-to-pronounce words, and parts of the service will have unique names. Sometimes you’ll need the hymnal; sometimes you’ll need the bulletin. First, don’t worry. You’re new to this,
Lutheran Witness: January 2024
The January Lutheran Witness provides a guide to the Lutheran Divine Service.
The Divine Service: A Guide
In this issue of The Lutheran Witness, we will help you understand and receive the eternal treasures of the Divine Service.
‘Blessed Is the Fruit of Your Womb!’
Christ’s birth provides a beautiful archetype of life in our culture of death.
Lutheran Witness: December 2023
The December issue of The Lutheran Witness reflects on “The Blessing of Children.”
The Blessing of Children
Every child is a blessing, even if that blessing is an opportunity for parents to learn self-sacrifice — and even if that blessing is, in the eyes of the world, one too many.
Seize It and Hold It Fast!
Luther described the course of the Gospel as a “passing rain shower.” Is it passing away from us?
God Creates, the Devil Destroys
The umbilical cord offers an image of what fundamentally makes for a good life: not autonomy and self-expression but dependence and interdependence on others.
Lutheran Witness: November 2023
The November 2023 of The Lutheran Witness takes up Carl Trueman’s ‘Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self,’ asking the age-old question: “What is truth?”
Ground of All Truth
“What is truth?” Jesus is Truth, and so Jesus stands at the heart of this (and every) issue of The Lutheran Witness.