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Back by popular demand, this Preacher’s Roundtable led by David Schmitt discusses preaching Mark throughout year B of the three-year lectionary cycle. Part 1 of 2 looks at preaching Mark during festal time (Advent through Easter).
The journey from text to pulpit can be a long and winding road, filled with false starts, surprising discoveries, and hard choices along the way. On a semi-regular basis, the homiletics faculty of Concordia Seminary …
Of making many books there is no end, but discovering 2000 year old books is far from wearying
An Epiphany homily to celebrate the work of the Spirit in ordinary lives, and to mark the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in perhaps the most significant case involving religious liberty and the separation of church and state in decades. But it got me thinking about more than liberty.
Should we fear that high art, like the music of Bach, might die within the church?
Why is there (still) a Lutheran Church? Old perspectives for new questions.
The full preface to the book, written by Robert Kolb
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s on to something.
. . . and a more peaceful 2012? That’s not yet another take on the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s what Steven Pinker, Harvard Psychologist, concludes in his most recent book The Better Angels of …