• St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill McClellan on Call Day

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill McClellan on Call Day

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLtoday.com columnist Bill McClellan used his Sunday column (May 2, 2010) to talk about Concordia Seminary’s Call Day.

  • St. Basil the Tree Hugger?

    St. Basil the Tree Hugger?

    Why do non-Christian naturalists and scientists from Rachel Carson to E. O.

  • “The Royal Banners Forward Go”

    Three views on worship from guest contributors Kent Burreson, David Adams, and Robert Kolb.

  • A Call Day Celebration

    A Call Day Celebration

    Today was “Call Day.” So I rode my bike.

  • Holy Texts, Human Hands

    Holy Texts, Human Hands

    The Boston Globe is reporting on the near-completion of a critical edition of the Koran. To those of us who have a different holy book this should seem to be of little…

  • How one seminary celebrated Earth Day

    How one seminary celebrated Earth Day

    Getting ready to plant 75 trees at Concordia Seminary. Credit: Diane Meyer/Respublica “Christ is risen! Christ will come again! Let’s go plant some trees!” Which is exactly what we did at Concordia…

  • Earth Day—40 Years

    Earth Day—40 Years

    I was finishing eighth grade and getting ready for confirmation when the first earth day was celebrated in 1970. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin helped organize the first Earth Day as an…

  • Earth Day: together with all creatures

    Earth Day: together with all creatures

    I blog elsewhere about the adventures (and misadventures) of trying my hand with a small hobby farm. Most of the time, the joys and struggles of that life with some land do not…

  • When I Was a Seminary Student … Additional Reflections

    When I Was a Seminary Student … Additional Reflections

    Andy Bartelt, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Concordia Seminary, sent me a long e-mail commenting on my post on seminary pedagogy. Rather than inserting it there as a very long comment,…

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