Category: Columns
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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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