Music and the Christian Life
Music does so much more than merely entertain and give us pleasure. It also helps us learn and remember.
Christian life
Why Memorize When You Can Just Google It?
With the internet at our fingertips, we easily come to rely on it for everything. But what is lost when we outsource our memory?
‘Write Them on Your Heart’: Why We Memorize Scripture
We memorize biblical passages so we may be empowered to say “yes” to Jesus and “no” to Satan and his soul-destroying lies.
The Church Year’s Curriculum
Through the seasons, readings, holidays and commemorations the church passes down to us, we grow closer to our Lord and learn to live lives that bear witness to Christ.
Fasting as an Embodied Practice
Fasting reminds us that physical difficulties may come in this life, yet the Lord will bring us through them in the end.
The Catholicity of the Church Year
Throughout the world you’ll find that the same feasts and fasts are part of the liturgical cycle.
We Do So Need Our Mothers: On ‘Peter Pan’
The true beauty of “Peter Pan” is a mother’s love.
Art & the Christian Life
The church has given us manifold images that place beauty before us and encourage us in our faith.
Lutheran Witness: April 2026
The April issue explores a Christian life on earth and our eternal life in Christ.
Lutheran Witness: March 2026
The March issue explores the Lutheran doctrine of vocation.
On ‘Moby Dick’: Grappling with the Book of Nature
A literary reflection on Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”
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.