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The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
On ‘My Ántonia’: Bodily Life as Fallen and Redeemed Creatures
My Ántonia invites the reader to look closely at one life, so closely that it becomes a window for looking at one’s own life, and every human life.
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When Prayer Goes Wrong
Politicians find it expedient to give an occasional nod to God, whoever or whatever they conceive the deity to be.
Come, Lord Jesus
When I became a Lutheran, one of the few things about my new church that I did not love was the Common Table Prayer.
How Does Faith Give Freedom?
In this next section of The Freedom of a Christian, Luther unpacks his assertion that faith alone justifies the sinner before God.
O Emmanuel!
And so we come to the last Vespers of Advent. Tonight the Great “O” Antiphon will be “O Emmanuel,” for tomorrow we will celebrate ...
O Rex Gentium!
“You are a king?” Pilate said. “You have said so,” our Lord replied (John 18:37; Matt. 27:11). He was always a tad reluctant about that ...
O Oriens!
There is a darkness about this world. And this darkest day of the year is but an image of that deeper darkness.