• Should Christians Work Toward a Christian Nation Again?

    Should Christians Work Toward a Christian Nation Again?

    Josh Hawley, a US Senator for Missouri, has written an article for the February issue of First Things. The title is “Our Christian Nation.” While…

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    “My dad had to live knowing that his father had tried to kill him” (276).  It is one of the most sobering lines in David Grann’s bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon, the…

  • Why Pastors Ought To Go Regularly To Confession: 15 Theses

    Why Pastors Ought To Go Regularly To Confession: 15 Theses

    Dr. Stephen Pietsch presented the following theses to fourth year seminarians attending his Theology and Leadership course.

  • Hosea’s Dove

    Hosea’s Dove

    Biblical studies has been enriched in recent decades by the insights of cognitive linguistics, a field that explores the connection between cognition (understanding) and language. Of particular interest to me is the…

  • On My Nightstand

    On My Nightstand

    This first novel by Delia Owens was a #1 New York Times bestselling book and has been made into a full-length motion picture. I can understand its popularity. Where the Crawdads Sing…

  • The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

    In Broken Heart, Johnson traces the origins of St. Louis from its founding as a French fur-trading post to its role in shaping the America we live in today. Johnson believes that…

  • Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles

    Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles

    Part II: Philippians 2:7–8 The importance of Philippians 2:5–11 can hardly be overestimated. The text is cited in places where it does not seem to belong and is mentioned even at moments…

  • Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament

    Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament

    As the first in a series of articles that capture the leisure reading of Concordia Seminary faculty and how even leisure reading offers opportunity for theological reflection, this article seems a bit…

  • Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles

    Theology found – and not to be found – in Greek participles

    Part I: Matthew 28:19–20 Playing the role of the “fly on the wall,” I was sitting in my Synoptic Gospels class, listening to a report on discipleship. I knew that, once the…