The June/July issue of The Lutheran Witness magazine offers incisive insights on toxic masculinity, godly fatherhood, the religious gender gap and what it means to be “men at church” today.
Lutheran Witness: June/July 2018 Read More »
Whenever we consume media — even Christian media — we should be carefully asking ourselves: What is the source? What is the writer’s theology? What is the Christian message that is being taught?
Beware of spiritual Trojan horses Read More »
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb” (Rev. 7:9).
Diversity in unity at Pentecost Read More »
Motivated by the conviction that human life begins at conception and their concern for embryos stuck in frozen limbo, LCMS “snowflake” families have become pioneers in embryo adoption.
Love for the least of these Read More »
From the beginning of the world, God has been creating and gathering for Himself a beloved people. In His wisdom, He designed parents to participate with Him in His creative powers and purposes, bringing forth generation after generation of children — and teaching them to know their God.
Children’s children and the plans of God Read More »
This is for you, Mom, because motherhood isn’t easy. Motherhood is a holy office. It has God’s blessing, plus a lot of sacrificial labor.
It is the bedrock teaching of the New Testament that Christ is the first one raised, and we too shall be raised from the dead at the Last Day.
The glorious blessing of Christ’s resurrection Read More »
Celebrate God’s gift of children this month in the May issue of The Lutheran Witness, as we reflect on the blessing that children are in the lives of their parents, communities and churches.
Lutheran Witness: May 2018 Read More »
The Church is not a throwaway society — quite the opposite. In God’s economy there is no person pointless enough to throw away.
Caring, not killing, in a throwaway society Read More »
It is a fine thing — a very fine thing — to consider those around you as essential contributors to your identity. Not everyone is a spouse. Not everyone is a parent. But everyone is someone’s someone.
Being someone’s someone Read More »
For Christians in the Early Church, cross and resurrection were not in opposition to each other. Their Easter worship services and sermons were a celebration of both at once.
The Paschal Lamb and the Angel of Death Read More »
The answers to life’s biggest questions and challenges aren’t to be found in yet one more new book, but in one very, very old one.
The most influential book Read More »