Clik here to view.
Congregations vote to delay Synod convention
(Getty Images) By Cheryl Magness The congregations of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) have approved, by over 90%, a proposal to extend the current 2019–2022 triennium, pushing the Synod’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campus clips – Vaccines, honors, traditions
Concordia College New York (CCNY), Bronxville, N.Y., nursing student Danielle Carpentieri is pictured on the CCNY campus. CCNY’s “Dialogues on the Quad” series featured a discussion of health care in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the mission field – Pastoral formation in Dominican Republic
Seminarian Guillermo Leyva makes a home visit in the Dominican Republic in 2018. Leyva was ordained and installed at All Saints Lutheran Church in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sept. 29, 2020. (LCMS/Johanna...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CTSFW receives highest level of accreditation
Master of Divinity student Thompson Marin prays in class at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (CTSFW), on Friday, Jan. 15. CTSFW was recently accredited for another 10 years by the Association...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CSP announces tuition guarantee for church work students
The church work tuition guarantee at Concordia University, St. Paul (CSP), St. Paul, Minn., ensures eligible students enrolled in church work programs will pay no more than $6,000 in tuition each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Missions Unpacked’ program provides online introduction to LCMS...
Aimee Cima, LCMS missionary to Cambodia and mercy manager for the LCMS Asia region, prepares to lead a Zoom session for Missions Unpacked, the Synod’s new online program to provide an introduction to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ONM grants support resiliency programs for the Synod’s workers
Presenter Karen Sue Murdy uses a bucket to demonstrate worker burnout during a Run Hard. Rest Well. retreat in October 2020 for staff at Cross Lutheran School, New Braunfels, Texas. Run Hard. Rest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
February ‘Witness’: Reading the Bible
The February issue of The Lutheran Witness urges readers to return to the Word of God, especially at home. In the regular reading and study of God’s Word by His people, God strengthens faith and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Winter ‘Engage’: God’s people share Christ’s love
The Winter 2021 issue of Lutherans Engage the World shines a spotlight on campus ministry in Champaign, Ill., and Ypsilanti, Mich. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford) Two pastors forge a bond as they encourage and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New paper studies pastoral formation before seminary
Pastoral candidates take part in Call Day on April 25, 2018, in Kramer Chapel at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford) A new publication of the LCMS Office of Pastoral...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Synod to celebrate ‘Here I Stand’ Sunday in April
“Luther at the Diet of Worms” by Anton von Werner. © Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and used with permission. On April 18, 1521, three and a half years after he nailed the 95...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photo essay: Sent to Serve—National Lutheran Schools Week 2021
Story by Cheryl Magness Photos by Erik M. Lunsford An oft-repeated theme of 2020 was “together apart”: finding strength in shared experience even while being physically distant. It’s a theme that those...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BOD advances new CUS governance model
Students and staff sing during chapel at Concordia University, Irvine, Calif., in 2014. At its Feb. 19 meeting, the LCMS Board of Directors heard a committee report on a new governance model for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CTCR provides updated vaccine fact sheet
Dr. Michael Brown, assistant dean of Pharmacy at Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW), Mequon, Wis., gives a firefighter his first coronavirus vaccination. The LCMS Commission on Theology and Church...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Egger accepts call to serve as CSL president
The Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Egger, chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (CSL), teaches Hebrew at CSL on July 17, 2020. Egger recently accepted the call to serve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Synod president releases statement on pending Equality Act legislation
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford) The Equality Act of 2021, also known as H.R. 5, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in a 224–206 vote on Feb. 25. The bill is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campus clips – Concordias expand space and programs
Blaine Andrada, a 2020 graduate of the computer science program at Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW), Mequon, Wis., tests out virtual reality technology in CUW’s makerspace. (CUW) State-of-the-art...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life Ministry conference draws over 700 registrants
The Rev. Sean Daenzer, director of LCMS Worship and International Center chaplain, opens the virtual LCMS Life Conference with Scripture and a devotion. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford) By Stacey Egger “Our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
March ‘Witness’: Superstitions
The modern scientific age has not jettisoned many of the superstitious ideas and practices that have characterized earlier historical eras. People still say, “Knock on wood” or “Good luck” and check...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the mission field: Rwanda
Participants at the Lutheran Mission in Africa—Synod of a Thousand Hills “Means of Grace” conference in Rwanda learned about confessional Lutheran doctrine for five days in November. (Selestine...
View Article