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Last spring I attended a conference at the newly established St. Olaf Institute for Freedom and Community, which is dedicated to 'free inquiry and meaningful debate of important political and [...]

In 1869, the faithful of what was to be the Lutheran Free Church named their seminary and college in Minneapolis after the Augsburg Confession, because they believed the Confession aligned [...]

The controversy surrounding capitalism was well represented by David Bentley Hart ('Mammon Ascendant') and Francesca Aran Murphy ('Is Liberalism a Heresy?') in your June/July issue. Both their essays were immensely [...]

The Christian Faith: Ecumenical Dogmatics BY CARL E. BRAATEN CASCADE BOOKS, L86 PAGES, $24 Old theologians don't die; they just keep writing. In this case, it is a blessing that [...]

The point of Michael Hannon's article 'Against Heterosexuality' (March) that I find most interesting and valuable is the idea that 'heterosexuals' have attempted to wrest their own non-procreative sex out [...]

This August, at its 2005 Churchwide Assembly in Orlando, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) sidestepped the decisions it needs to make on sexuality--and several pastors of large Lutheran [...]

IT IS OFTEN SAID that academic squabbles are so nasty because the stakes are so low. But at Baylor University the squabbles are nasty because the stakes are so high. [...]

The two largest Lutheran churches in America have now broken up: the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) in the 1960s and 1970s after a brutal conflict between insurgent conservatives and complacent [...]

I am reliably informed that there is a Neuhaus' Law to the effect that, where orthodoxy is optional, it will sooner or later be proscribed. There are, of course, exceptions [...]

There is a rising strand of Christian social thought inspired by a fresh reading of Augustine's City of God. Those involved are prolific, erudite, and, for the most part, quite [...]

Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation. By Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. Oxford University Press, 199 pp. 829.95. Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education. By Nicholas [...]

Having just spent my third sabbatical year since 1978 in Cambridge, England, and having made a number of visits in between, I have been able to witness the seemingly inexorable [...]

A college recovers its Christian identity FOR MUCH OF this century, the waning influence of religion in American colleges and universities was viewed as a natural concomitant of modernization, and [...]

In 'Lutherans Undefined' (November), Robert Benne laments the progressive leadership of the ELCA, is relieved by the decisions made concerning sexuality, and appalled by the 'egregious ... actions foisted upon [...]