• The fall of Joe Paterno

    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…

  • Proper 29 • Matthew 25:31–46 • November 20, 2011

    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 Preacher’s Studio: Dale Meyer

    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.…

  • WDJT?

    What Did Jesus Teach? And what does that have to do with Christianity?

  • Proper 28 • Matthew 25:14–30 • November 13, 2011

    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…

  • Fall 2011 CONCORDIA JOURNAL sneak peek

    Highlights from the Fall 2011 issue of CONCORDIA JOURNAL, due out in early November.

  • How Shall We Live?

    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…

  • Hearing Robert Putnam on the puzzle of American religion

    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…

  • Old Sermons

    Ouch.