CONCORDIA JOURNAL was recently honored with awards, including the Award of Merit for Best in Class: Journal, from the ACP.

Highlights from the Spring 2012 CONCORDIA JOURNAL, heading soon to a mailbox near you.

I’m honored to do a little guest blogging for Lutheran World Relief. Here’s numero uno, trying to answer the question of why everyone likes to talk innovation but so few actually innovate.

What do we have in common that gives us a life together? The New Testament gives us a picture, or in this case, two.

Counting the reasons why the Grammys need to get down on their knees and thank the Black church for anything good in American music.

Highlights from the Winter 2012 CONCORDIA JOURNAL, a special partner issue with Concordia Lutheran Ministries (Cabot, PA) on aging and older adult ministry.

Tim Tebow won’t be there. But don’t be surprised if God makes an appearance this Sunday, because we are entering holy days.

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.

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.

The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only gospel that says nothing about the nativity?