Current Issue - July

• "Work and Reality in Latvia"
  By Rev. Dr. William C. Weinrich
  
  Faith lives under the cross. Nothing could be more true of the Christian existence, and nowhere could it be more truly experienced than in Latvia. Latvia is a nation with a very difficult past and an uncertain future. And in that mix stands the Lutheran Church which is itself in a period of uncertain challenge and rapid change.

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• "Mining the Riches of Lutheran Theology in Germany"
  By Mr. Jason Lane
  
  Study in the German system, combined with the superb theological education we have received from Fort Wayne, where pastoral care is of primary importance, affords a new generation of theologians the great opportunity to carry on the good confession of Jesus Christ into all the world.

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• "A Modern Day Circuit Rider"
  By Dr. Chris Barnekov
  
  The mission house in Härnäs was packed full when Rev. Jakob Appell arrived. Some had traveled as much as fifty kilometers to attend. This is one of three mission groups this recent S.T.M. graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary regularly visits in southeastern Sweden.

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• ""Where is the Lutheran Cathedral?""
  By Rev. Gottfried Martens
  
  In Berlin, the "world's capital of modern atheism," as Peter L. Berger has called it, only 30 percent of the population still belong to a Christian Church at all, and about 4 percent worship regularly. There are eight SELK churches in Berlin with about 2,500 members altogether.

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• "SMP: Meeting the Challenge to Proclaim the Gospel"
  By Rev. William S. C. Johnson
  
  Stories like these are common in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod today. We live in a world where the movement of people and the natural growth of communities is every day opening up new cultures and communities with opportunities to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But how will they believe if there's no one there to share with them?

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• "The Church in Germany: A Struggle with Culture"
  By Mr. Jacob Gaugert
  
  In many midwestern LCMS congregations one is likely to find an old German Agenda, Bible, or congregational register lying around somewhere. People tell stories of the "good ol' days" when Pastor So-and-so had to preach in German and English. A good German Lutheran was seen as someone with stubbornness, conviction, and holding on to the "old ways"-just like great-grandpa. Growing up in such a context one can often make the assumption that to be a good Lutheran is to be a good German. The more Lutheran, the more German; the more German, the more Lutheran. This was certainly the image I had before I began spending time in Germany.

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• "A Plot for the Lord's Seeds"
  By Mr. Peter Brock
  
  In his sermon for the dedication of Westfield House, Norman Nagel called the school a "plot for the Lord's seeds." At this theological college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE), the Lord's words "here engage us, received in liturgy, studied in the ways our Lord has taken our words into His use, lived in community, and readied for sowing skillfully, wherever the Lord may put us for His use."

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