Lutheran Forum

30/11/2025

A blessed Adventide to all our readers and friends!

27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers and friends!

05/11/2025

The latest issue of Lutheran Forum will soon be arriving in our subscribers' mailboxes. Several of the articles are Reformation-themed, and there are a few other goodies. Plus we are proud to feature original cover artwork by a Tuscaloosa artist, John Roberts Leonard.

22/10/2025

As we approach the Reformation's anniversary, we give thanks for Dr. Martin Luther's clear witness to the church's treasure, "the Gospel of the glory and grace of God" (as he himself puts it in one of the 95 Theses).

The upcoming issue of Lutheran Forum, soon to be arriving in your mailboxes, will bring you articles on Luther's liturgical reform and its relevance today, on Reformation-era hymn writing, on Luther's understanding of the promise as the essence of the gospel, and many others. Stay tuned!

24/07/2025

22/05/2025

The new issue of Lutheran Forum will soon be hitting our subscribers’ mailboxes. There are a few things to recommend: the first ever translation into English of Werner Elert’s 1946 essay, “Paul and Nero,” a piece by associate editor Josh Hollmann on the uses of Esther today, a wonderful article on the pastoral office and pastor figures in the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson, a reflection on Christian responses to the Holocaust, as well as an extended editorial article on the relation of law and justice in Western philosophy and Lutheran theology more specifically. The overarching theme, if there is one, is that of Christians' relation to the state.

12/05/2025

In the upcoming issue of Lutheran Forum, we are pleased to offer--for the first time in English--Werner Elert's 1946 essay, "Paul and Nero." The issue should be hitting your mailboxes in the next few weeks.

17/04/2025

On this Maundy Thursday, we both remember Christ’s last supper with all His apostles and we also look ahead, as we've done countless times before, to the heavenly banquet, a table with enraptured guests rejoicing (all His disciples from all times and places) and a Host who’s placed His best in our midst. From these two, memory and expectation, there emerges another dimension: Formed and shaped together by all the expectant suppers we have celebrated week-in and week-out, we look forward, today more so than ever, to being re-incorporated with those whose apart-ness, whatever its exact nature (sin, death, time, space), we now feel so acutely precisely because it has already been overcome. Brothers and sisters, WE shall yet eat and drink again... and then, forever together, AGAIN! Our embodiment together will yet be manifest, and time itself will yet be fulfilled. To this gift we NOW bear witness.

[LF Editor]

29/03/2025

Prophetic words from Robert Jenson?