Articles
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Killers of the Flower Moon
“My dad had to live knowing that his father had tried to kill him” (276). It is one of the most sobering lines in David Grann’s…
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Why Pastors Ought To Go Regularly To Confession: 15 Theses
Dr. Stephen Pietsch presented the following theses to fourth year seminarians attending his Theology and Leadership course.
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Hosea’s Dove
Biblical studies has been enriched in recent decades by the insights of cognitive linguistics, a field that explores the connection between cognition (understanding) and language.…
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On My Nightstand
This first novel by Delia Owens was a #1 New York Times bestselling book and has been made into a full-length motion picture. I can…
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
In Broken Heart, Johnson traces the origins of St. Louis from its founding as a French fur-trading post to its role in shaping the America…
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Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles
Part II: Philippians 2:7–8 The importance of Philippians 2:5–11 can hardly be overestimated. The text is cited in places where it does not seem to…
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Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament
As the first in a series of articles that capture the leisure reading of Concordia Seminary faculty and how even leisure reading offers opportunity for…
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Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles
Part I: Matthew 28:19–20 Playing the role of the “fly on the wall,” I was sitting in my Synoptic Gospels class, listening to a report…
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Santify Them in the Truth
This is one of the petitions of the so-called High-priestly Prayer of Jesus in John 17. The prayer was spoken (made) before Jesus’s ascension and…