16th Sunday After Pentecost
Spark your thoughts for September 17, 2023! Tune in to “Lectionary Kick-start” for a discussion about the texts for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost
11th Sunday After Pentecost
Spark your thoughts for August 13, 2023! Tune in to Lectionary Kick-start for a discussion about the texts for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost
10th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 10th Sunday After Pentecost (August 6, 2023) with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Isaiah, Romans and Matthew
9th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 9th Sunday After Pentecost (July 30, 2023) with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Deuteronomy, Romans and Matthew
8th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 8th Sunday After Pentecost (July 23, 2023) with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Isaiah, Romans and Matthew
7th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 7th Sunday After Pentecost (July 16, 2023) with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Isaiah, Romans and Matthew
6th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 6th Sunday After Pentecost with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Zechariah, Romans and Matthew
5th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for the 5th Sunday After Pentecost (July 2, 2023) with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Jeremiah, Romans and Matthew
4th Sunday After Pentecost
Get ready for June 25, the fourth Sunday after Pentecost with this discussion on the lectionary texts from the books of Jeremiah, Romans, and Matthew
A study in juxtapositions: youth and the church
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New Book: Seventeenth Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns
The full preface to the book, written by Robert Kolb
Earth Day: together with all creatures
I blog elsewhere about the adventures (and misadventures) of trying my hand with a small hobby farm. Most of the time, the joys and struggles of that life with some land do not intersect in any obvious way with my life and vocation at the Seminary. (Although there are hopeful signs that my worlds might be ..
WORSHIP, GOTTESDIENST, CULTUS DEI by James L. Brauer
Timothy Maschke reviews WORSHIP, GOTTESDIENST, CULTUS DEI: What the Lutheran Confessions Say About Worship. By James L. Brauer, editor. St. Louis: Concordia, 2005. 304 pages. Hardback. $29.99
GOD WORDS: Intro to Classic Christian Theology by Terry Dittmer, et al.
Timothy Maschke reviews GOD WORDS: Intro to Classic Christian Theology. By Terry Dittmer, John Johnson, David Lumpp, Paul Raabe, William Weinrich and Dean Wenthe. St. Louis: Concordia, 2004. 188 pages. $12.99
Lutherans and Earth Day
Last year in a little article, “Can Lutherans Observe Earth Day?” I asked if being theologically conservative required us to be politically conservative on social issues like the environment. After all, Luther’s recovery of the Gospel led him to revalue creation as our good home