It has been a tense month here in the Twin Cities, with the eyes of the world upon us. But the tension hasn’t belonged just to those of us in Minnesota. Everywhere you look, we’ve had a grueling, traumatic pandemic year, without time to process or grieve. We’ve witnessed violence against our BIPOC siblings in […]

Professor Andrew Root, Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, is author of “The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life.” Published in January, this is the final book in his three-volume set on ministry in a secular age. We reviewed the second […]

Lois Farag, professor of early church history at Luther Seminary, is the author of “Balance of the Heart: Desert Spirituality for Twenty-First-Century Christians,” published in 2012 by Wipf and Stock Publishers. The book invites readers to learn from the desert fathers and mothers in the pursuit of loving God with our whole heart, soul, and […]

Rolf Jacobson, professor of Old Testament and Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry at Luther Seminary, is author of “The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Old Testament: Israel’s In-Your-Face, Holy God.” Published in 2018 by Fortress Press, the book explores the narrative arc of the Old Testament, as well as the Psalms. […]

Dear friends, Earlier this month, on the Feast of the Epiphany, violence erupted in our country yet again. Like so many of you, I was stunned by the incitement to violence and the consequences unleashed by it. Epiphany literally means “a sudden manifestation.” During this Epiphany season, I’ve been thinking about that a lot. We […]