Connect and reconnect

The Lutheran Church has a rich heritage rooted in the Christian tradition, liturgy, and reverence.  Liturgical choices and practices developed through the centuries and absorbed elements from people and culture of different times and places; they are not a doctrine of the Church. Therefore, historically and in the present the Church would be in keeping with its tradition as she would be providing alternative liturgical Christian Lutheran practices.   The definition of Alternative Liturgical Services emanates from congregational practice:  forms and practices of Service grounded in the tradition of the Christian Church throughout the centuries, while open to new artistic forms to communicate the Gospel that are adequate and well connected to a given context. As Orthodoxy is something defined and unified, Orthopraxy can open and varied. That is because thinking of forms in the Divine Service is not always a matter of “or”, but rather, of “and”. The Church does not need to give up

I will be presenting one of the sectionals of the 33rd Annual Theological Symposium at the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis this Fall. The intersection of Lutheran Homiletics and video preaching anchored in the Article VII of the Augsburg Confession, sharing our Hope in a secular age. ___________ 33 rd  Annual Theological Symposium Sept. 19-20, 2023 Church and Society: Living by Hope in a Secular Age In today’s post-Christian era, the church’s place and voice are often disregarded by American society. The political and cultural landscape at times conflicts with the moral vision of Christianity — a vision increasingly deemed a threat to the public good. Political disagreement, social ills, moral decay and disillusionment challenge the church to speak and act. But how? In this symposium, plenaries and sectionals will explore how our hope — our Christian hope in a healed and new Creation — can better shape our engagement and witness with culture and society. https:

            When you go to a Dinosaur Museum no one spends much time trying to prove to you that they were alive millions of years ago.   The learning process there is based on that premise. The same happens when it comes to Astronomy. Nobody in the area is heavily occupied with proving that the Universe is 13 billion years-old and counting. The work is done taking this for granted. Similarly, when people attend a football or soccer game, hardly anyone has as their primary goal to convince fans that this is an emotionally incredible, satisfying experience. The whole event is built upon that assumption. Also, in those contexts people usually can’t hide evident conflicting information or bad facts and results to make the teaching/institution look good all the time. Even these are believed to add to the overall reliability and profit of the experience.             The same was held as valid for the existence of God in many historical circumstances. The Reformation Period is and an examp