Our culture is — at best — terribly confused about the necessity of fatherhood. But God knew what He was doing when He put our earthly fathers in our …
The Lutheran Witness
Interpreting the contemporary world from a Lutheran Christian perspective
The toxic and the true
At the dawn of creation, Adam was the first man to distort real, godly masculinity, and Eve was the first woman to be let down and left hurting by a m…
On being a man
The Bible says quite a lot about maleness gone wrong through sin, about what actions and qualities God loves to see in men — and about Christ, who, ab…
Lutheran Witness: June/July 2018
The June/July issue of The Lutheran Witness magazine offers incisive insights on toxic masculinity, godly fatherhood, the religious gender gap and wha…
Beware of spiritual Trojan horses
Whenever we consume media — even Christian media — we should be carefully asking ourselves: What is the source? What is the writer’s theology? What is…
Diversity in unity at Pentecost
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing…
Love for the least of these
Motivated by the conviction that human life begins at conception and their concern for embryos stuck in frozen limbo, LCMS “snowflake” families have b…
Children’s children and the plans of God
From the beginning of the world, God has been creating and gathering for Himself a beloved people. In His wisdom, He designed parents to participate w…
For Mom
This is for you, Mom, because motherhood isn’t easy. Motherhood is a holy office. It has God’s blessing, plus a lot of sacrificial labor. …
The glorious blessing of Christ’s resurrection
It is the bedrock teaching of the New Testament that Christ is the first one raised, and we too shall be raised from the dead at the Last Day.…
Lutheran Witness: May 2018
Celebrate God’s gift of children this month in the May issue of The Lutheran Witness, as we reflect on the blessing that children are in the liv…
Caring, not killing, in a throwaway society
The Church is not a throwaway society — quite the opposite. In God’s economy there is no person pointless enough to throw away.…
Being someone’s someone
It is a fine thing — a very fine thing — to consider those around you as essential contributors to your identity. Not everyone is a spouse. Not everyo…
The Paschal Lamb and the Angel of Death
For Christians in the Early Church, cross and resurrection were not in opposition to each other. Their Easter worship services and sermons were a cele…
The most influential book
The answers to life’s biggest questions and challenges aren’t to be found in yet one more new book, but in one very, very old one.…
I challenge you to read the Bible
There is no problem of faith, life, family or Church for which the Bible does not have answers. As we move toward the Synod’s 175th anniversary in 202…