Unedited version of article published in Dialog 58, 2 (June 2020), pp. 86-89. According to a study carried out and published by the Pew Research Center last year, 80% of adults in the U.S. continue to...
Originally Published: Nov. 20, 2017 What does it mean to be Lutheran? Can one rightly call oneself Lutheran if one does not fully identify with the Northern European culture in which Lutheranism originally arose, or is Lutheranism by nature inseparable from that...
In his writings, Luther referred repeatedly to the story of the prophet Balaam and his donkey or ass in order to stress that God can speak through the most humble and insignificant of people whom the world views with contempt, and in ways that are entirely contrary to...
Over the course of the past few decades, it has become common among many English-speakingChristians and in many churches (such as my own, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)to maintain that, when possible, we should avoid using masculine pronouns (“he,”...
