Pre-Lenten Workshop set for Jan. 15, 2016
Dr. Reed Lessing to lead discussion of Job’s teaching on suffering
Summer workshops offered across the country
Concordia Seminary faculty and staff are hitting the road for summer workshops on a wide variety of timely, contemporary topics. Check the schedule to find one near you
Innocent Suffering: A Lenten Thought
In the piety of Lenten self-reflection, the confession of our sin holds a prominent place. Especially for Lutherans who recognize that, as simul iustus et peccator, our confession of sin is comprehensive. The words of Isaiah 64 quickly become our own: “we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like ..
“A Serious Man”: the Coen brothers’ retelling of Job
I recently saw A Serious Man , the Coen brothers new film, at the Tivoli . In between an opening prologue of a Yiddish folk tale and a truly stunning ending is the story of Larry Gopnik, a middle-class Jew living with his family in 1967 middle America