Lutheran Witness: September 2025
The September issue provides a Lutheran view of the theology of the body.
Creation
Gifted Bodies: A Lutheran Theology of the Body
Our bodily life comes from the living God. We have not made ourselves. Nor can we remake ourselves.
On ‘Frankenstein’: Alienation and the Creature’s Need for Belonging
‘Frankenstein’ is a tragic picture of what happens when we don’t live according to our design for communion with our Creator and fellow creatures.
Christ and the Church: Ephesians 5 and the Wonder of the Wedding Day
God made us so that we would delight in Him and husband and wife would delight in each other.
Resurrected Body
Easter changes everything. It even answers the question of transgenderism.
Concerning the six-day creation
There will always be a struggle between faith and reason. In matters of clear teaching of the Bible, however, we must hold to the Scriptures.
Why Do I Believe in Jesus?
My reason follows after, in the wake of faith, and convinces me that the universe is simply too ordered and too complex to exist by chance.
In the Beginning
The earth where we live, the universe in which we exist, didn’t just happen. God created it.