A catalyst is one that sparks something. The catalyst speaks from experience and enables others to move forward more freely. These articles are written to act as a catalyst in your life.
Honest post: why I’m still LCMS, even when it frustrates me.
Not a defense with my eyes closed. Not a critic with one foot out the door. Just the truth about what keeps me here theology, sacraments, liturgy, and a family I didn’t choose but wouldn’t trade.
Convention week will test more than our resolutions. It’ll test whether we can disagree like family.
A practical field guide for delegates before the floor, on the floor, and after the gavel falls. Link in bio.
After three rounds of balloting, Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison has been re-elected LCMS President with 50.1% of the vote. That number is not just a statistic. It is a diagnosis.
One of our greatest challenges isn’t theological. It’s relational. And the path forward begins not with them changing first but with me.
The mission infrastructure your congregation needs already exists. Most of it just isn’t pointed at anything yet.
There’s an accusation quietly circulating in Lutheran circles right now, and it usually sounds something like this: “If your church is growing, you must be watering something down.” It gets dressed up in more refined language with concerns about “faithful catechesis,” questions about “theological integrity,” whispers about whether a congregation is “truly confessional.” But strip…
Faithfulness sometimes looks like letting go of what you’ve built so that something greater can be born. The case for merger, consolidation, and multisite as mission strategy — not institutional survival.
The Outward Turn · Part One If your church ceased to exist tomorrow, would anyone outside your congregation know it was gone? Sit with that question for a moment before you answer it. Not the people on your roster. Not the families who would miss Sunday morning. Not the pastor whose livelihood depends on the…
A hard reckoning about numbers, urban deserts, and what it means when a denomination forgets the difference between preserving a structure and advancing a kingdom. Last week I wrote about the sale of Concordia Ann Arbor and I asked a hard question about what it reveals when a denomination puts a price tag on a…
The grief is real. But the question underneath the grief is more important. I’ve been watching the reaction to the sale of Concordia University Ann Arbor this week. The alumni posts, the lament threads, the old yearbook photos dusted off and shared one more time. For some the grief is real. Alma maters matter. The…
