Minute by minute, the details of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University are becoming more appalling, despicable, and sad. Among other things, Joe…
by Joel Biermann This is a difficult text. Not that it is difficult to understand. In fact, it is altogether too easy to grasp the meaning,…
The journey from text to pulpit can be a long and winding road, filled with false starts, surprising discoveries, and hard choices along the way.…
What Did Jesus Teach? And what does that have to do with Christianity?
by Wayne E. Schmidt Editor’s Note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, July 1985. Financial institutions spend no little effort to keep the…
Highlights from the Fall 2011 issue of CONCORDIA JOURNAL, due out in early November.
Seven billion people as of Oct 31, Reformation Day. The world’s population has more than doubled in my lifetime. For that matter, it’s increased three…
Last night, Robert Putnam, America’s foremost social scientist, spoke at Wash U about his latest research into the “puzzle” of American religion. Could there perhaps…
Ouch.