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What Is Truth?

In the eightieth year of my life I have come to the realization that my life has been and continues to be a journey to discover the truth: not scientific truth, not political truth, not philosophical truth, not scholastic truth, but spiritual truth. I struggled and am struggling with the question that Pilate put to […]

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Review of “Luther on Trial”

In 1521, Martin Luther was summoned before the Diet of Worms and ordered to recant all his works. But what if Luther were retried today? And what if his greatest crime was not heresy but the unforgiveable sin—blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? Furthermore, what if such an “unforgiveable sin” were given a postmodern twist and […]

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Hymn: “What Can It Mean, That Jesus Is Arisen?”

Pasch and Weaver composed this hymn in honor of former LF editor Richard E. Koenig and his wife, Associate in Ministry Elaine G. Koenig, to celebrate the mysterious and wonderful news of Jesus risen from the dead.

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Learning Luther: The Lord’s Supper in the Large Catechism

Editors’ Note: The Virginia Synod is encouraging pastors and laity to read Luther’s writings through the year 2015/16 via these reading guides by Paul R. Hinlicky. The synod has kindly agreed to let us reproduce them here month by month. This month we turn to the section on the Lord’s Supper in the Large Catechism, […]

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