Lutheran Witness: December 2024
The December issue of The Lutheran Witness explores the family — what we can learn from the Holy Family, how the church can act like a family especially during the Christmas season, and more.
Family
A Family Community
This issue of The Lutheran Witness covers the wide gamut of emotions and realities related to the family.
Home: A Sacred Shelter and a Confession of Christ
The Christian home can proclaim the Gospel and serve its neighbors.
On ‘Anna Karenina’: A prescient critique of sexual disorder
Although he wrote long before the Sexual Revolution, Tolstoy anticipates the tragic effects of such an ethic on human life.
Wanted: The Perfect Family
Christians are not immune to the pain of broken families.
Speaking of Humanity: More than Matter and Chemistry
Ultimately it matters that we know and confess the fullness of our human nature because Christ took on that same human nature to redeem us.
The Demise of the American Family
Today, two-thirds of all marriages are preceded by cohabitation, by just “living together.”