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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 …
Calls and assignments for pastors, deaconesses, and vicars, from Call Day, May 1, 2013, at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
David Schmitt discusses his devotional book, Man of God: Strong to Serve, with Jeff Kloha.
Digital version of the Spring 2013 issue of CONCORDIA JOURNAL, a theme issue on lay vocation in partnership with Valparaiso University.
At what point has it gone too far? I have my macbook, iPhone, bluetooth mice and keyboards, Quad Core PC running Windows 7, a GPS for my bike that syncs wirelessly with a power meter …
I enjoyed Avatar a lot. But then I generally like sci-fi movies anyway. Of course, Avatar is widely seen as a pro-environmental movie, some might even say that it was radically so
The other day I found myself wanting to agree with with Stanley Fish (an alarming thought!) when he wrote: “[T]he various projects we pursue and engage in may not all cohere in a single intelligible …
This weekend, Benedict XVI, speaking to the priests and other consecrated servants of the Roman Catholic Church, commended blogging as a further means to proclaim the Word of God to the world. We couldn’t agree …
Whatever is Commendable – Think about
(Doing Phil. 4:8)
On Dec. 28, 2009 I cut out a comic and put it on our refrigerator. Lola (written by Todd Clark and run in the St. Louis Post Dispatch) …
Pat Robertson blamed the earthquake in Haiti on a pact Haitians made with the devil to win their freedom from the French. Vodou (or voudou or voodoo or vodun) practitioners have their own take on …
Image credit: Mark Peterson/Redux. From the Atlantic Monthly. I’ve been thinking about this question ever since I ran across Hanna Rosin’s article on the topic in The Atlantic .
The headline from ABC News is certainly attention grabbing — “No More Jesus Rifles.” Weapons supplied to US forces in the Middle East with “Bible Codes,” which are used in combat against Muslims is being …
For all of us who struggle with living a life that is worthy of our calling, Luther succinctly summarizes the Christian Life in his 1520 work, “On Christian Freedom”. One could spend their whole life …
Elvis Presley turns 75 today, which makes it a good day for local Elvis impersonators .