The Faculty Is the Curriculum

The Faculty Is the Curriculum


The Faculty Is the Curriculum

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis welcomes three new faculty members this year. In this article Dr. Kevin Golden writes of the important role that professors play in mentoring future pastors and deaconesses. Meet the new faculty members in the video interviews highlighted in the article. Take a look!

Lectionary Kick-start Promo

Lectionary Kick-start Promo


Lectionary Kick-start Promo

Each week Dr. David Schmitt and Dr. Peter Nafzger discuss the upcoming lectionary texts to spark your thoughts for Sunday. Learn more about Concordia Seminary’s new podcast Lectionary Kick-start in this video clip with Dr. David Schmitt

Living by Hope in a Secular Age – Theological Symposium

Living by Hope in a Secular Age – Theological Symposium


Living by Hope in a Secular Age – Theological Symposium

“Living by Hope in a Secular Age” is the theme of the 33rd Annual Theological Symposium at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis on September 19-20, 2023. In this symposium, plenaries and sectionals will explore how our hope — our Christian hope in a healed and new Creation — can better shape our life, witness, and engagement with each other in the church and with all our neighbors in the world

The Future of the Missouri Synod

The Future of the Missouri Synod


The Future of the Missouri Synod

The Missouri Synod will have a convention this summer, and that raises an important question. The question that hits me and should be on the mind of everyone in the Missouri Synod is this: What is the future of the Missouri Synod in the United States? And that is part of a larger question: What ..

Filling Time: Reflections for a New Year

Filling Time: Reflections for a New Year


Filling Time: Reflections for a New Year

As one walks down the street known as King’s Parade in Cambridge, just outside Corpus Christi college you will see a rather remarkable clock.  There many strange features to this clock but the most striking and disturbing is the creature that stretches itself across the top.  This is the chronophage – the “time-eater”.  As the ..

Christmas Peace

Christmas Peace


Christmas Peace

“Peace on earth good will toward men …” It is likely you will hear children sing these lines this Christmas. Perhaps your church has a children’s choir or a Christmas program where a group of cherub-like angels will sing the song to a few little boys and girls dressed up like shepherds. It is a ..

Christology Illustrated

Christology Illustrated


Christology Illustrated

Dr. David Maxwell lays out a clear and concise description of Lutheran Christology. He maintains that its fundamental point is to emphasize the unity of Christ. In this article, he explores the 3 different kinds of statements that the Scriptures make about Christ: the genera of communication of attributes

The Hope to Which We Cling

The Hope to Which We Cling


The Hope to Which We Cling

Christians cling to a peculiar hope. Dr. Timothy Saleska writes “As the story of Israel makes clear and as God demonstrated by raising Jesus from the dead, the difference for God’s people is that the darkness has an end.” In the Old Testament God sent preachers to share the promises that bring hope…and he still does today. Concordia Seminary is privileged to form students for this role — preachers of a peculiar hope

Drawing Closer to an Unchanging Christ

Drawing Closer to an Unchanging Christ


Drawing Closer to an Unchanging Christ

Do the words of Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and always” refer to the constancy of the second person of the Trinity or to His constancy in our lives? In this article from the December 2020 issue of Concordia Seminary Magazine, Dr. Jeffrey Oschwald compares two interpretations and comes to a surprising conclusion