In This Issue
The Results are In: Evangelical Style and Lutheran Substance are Not Compatible – Burnell F. Eckardt Jr.
The Strength of Youth and Wise Gray Heads: What the LCMS Needs Right Now – David H. Petersen
Why Rubrics? (Continued) – Mark P. Braden
The Three Estates: Let’s Try to Unravel a Knot – John R. Stephenson
The Perfect Family? – Karl F. Fabrizius
Plus Vesting Prayers and the 2026 Liturgical Calendar
On The GottesBlog
The Gottesdienst Crowd Podcast
Training Videos & Educational Resources
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"For an instant even I was appalled - but only for an instant."
Caught between the pincers of the world and the church, I find myself so jaded these days as to rarely find the energy to even shrug my shoulders at what I see going on around me. But, in the case of the following published paper by the chairman of the Missions Department of Concordia University, Portland, the Rev. Dr. Herb Hoefer, who is, of course, an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, I have nothing else to do than to quote Sir Harry Flashman.