• Multiethnic Symposium – January 24-25, 2017

    Multiethnic Symposium – January 24-25, 2017

    In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the 2017 Multiethnic Symposium will examine the various ways in which the Reformation message has crossed borders.

  • Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Ralph Bohlmann

    Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Ralph Bohlmann

    #TBT: A young Professor Ralph Bohlmann on “The Language and Concepts of Theology.”

  • Proper 29 • Luke 23:27–43 • November 20, 2016

    By Mark A. Seifrid The drama of the text unfolds in three acts. The first act is the way of the cross with Jesus’s word to the women who followed him on the…

  • Why Niebuhr in 2016?

    Why Niebuhr in 2016?

    Jon Diefenthaler examines a word or two from H. Richard Niebuhr during a particularly tumultuous election year.

  • Proper 28 • Luke 21:5–28 • November 13, 2016

    By David Adams The Text as Text The text of this account in Luke’s gospel is well-attested, and there is no variant that is so problematic as to demand serious consideration. In v.…

  • Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Oswald Hoffmann

    Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Oswald Hoffmann

    #TBT: In 1963, “Ossie” Hoffmann, fresh off a visit with Lutheran Christians in Ethiopia, spoke with his signature humor and erudition about missiology and church history.

  • All Saints’ Day • Matthew 5:1–12 • November 6, 2016

    By Joel Elowsky Crowds are always following Jesus looking for something. These crowds come from everywhere, not just the locals, and they’re filled with expectation. He always takes their expectations and transforms them…

  • A Visit to the ER

    A Visit to the ER

    …and what happens when a seminary professor can’t go number one.

  • Reformation Day • John 8:31–36 • October 30, 2016

    By Travis J. Scholl Commemorating the sixteenth-century events that came to be called the Protestant Reformation is more complicated than it used to be. Triumphalism—a certain weirdly coiffed presidential candidate notwithstanding—is no longer…