The 34th Annual Theological Symposium met September 17-18, 2024 with the theme “Technology and the Church: Promise and Peril.” Video recordings of both plenaries and sectionals are now available on CSL Scholar.
During the season of Lent, church workers encourage their community to bring penitent hearts to the Lord. We plan Wednesday night services, rehearse special music, offer resources that families can take home,…
Dr. Bruce Schuchard, Professor of Exegetical Theology, presented the latest Lay Bible Institute with the theme Solum Verbum: What Word Alone Can Do in the Gospel according to John. Video of the…
“Life issues” today are highly contentious. So much so that many caring Christians struggle to think about, talk about, or respond to them in loving and constructive ways. The result can be…
We were talking about religion and politics at lunch one day. The rise of Christian nationalism in the United States. The role of the church in a divided political context. The confusion…
In Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, has written a biography that not only informed me about one of history’s most important rulers, but also gave me a…
I have a love-hate relationship with the editorial assistant built into word processors. I appreciate that such assistants will point out my bad habits (most commonly, my penchant for the passive voice)…
The celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth century novelist Willa Cather wrote a trilogy of novels that focus on life on the Nebraska prairie: O Pioneers, My Ántonia, and the most autobiographical of the three, The…
A formula like “Global Evangelicalism” is obviously expansive enough to include virtually any topic one may choose. But when I heard the theme and considered the opportunity of presenting in the Lutheran…