Category: Columns

August 27, 2010

Where’s Walther…in our pulpits?

by Timothy Teuscher “He was a preacher, too, and never charged money for his preaching, and it was worth it” Mark Twain once quipped. While humorous, his words are also rather sobering because there is probably more truth in them than we would care to…

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August 12, 2010

The church is full of sinners

by Judith Burns  Anne Rice, one of the first modern authors to write about vampires, has been in the news of late but for another reason. On August 4 she declared: “In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.” Later she added,…

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July 1, 2010

LCC On The Road

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June 25, 2010

Lutherans commemorate presentation of Lutheran doctrine

by Rev. Dr. Jose Pfaffenzeller  June 25 marks the 480th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V. It is one of the confessional symbols that identify the Evangelical Lutheran Church and is like the Lutheran Church’s “birth certificate” because it…

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March 30, 2010

Faith responds to mass murder in the Moscow subway

by James Dimitroff  Reports of two explosions on March 29 in the Moscow subway during morning rush hour, shock and wound us as we recoil again from news of innocent lives suddenly destroyed.  The first explosion, at 7:55 a.m., hit Lubyanka underground metro station; the second,…

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March 13, 2010

Earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and floods! How do God’s people respond?

By Rev. Dale Mohr What is the appropriate response to tragedy; to innocent suffering and death? To the more than 200,000 killed in Haiti? To the hundreds of thousands killed in the 2004 tsunami? To the victims of the latest suicide bomb attack? Or the…

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