From Fall 2007 through Winter 2018 I served as Editor of Lutheran Forum, an independent theological quarterly for North American Lutherans and their ecumenical and global friends. Here is the complete archive of all my editorials from that period.
2018
“The Church and Happiness”
“To Be Pro-Life in Every Way”
“At the Table Again with Babette”
“‘Fasting and Bodily Preparations Are a Good External Discipline’”
2017
“Everything You Know about Martin Luther Is Wrong”
“Still Life with Baptism”
“The Verbs of the Resurrection”
“A Primer on Luther’s Politics”
2016
“Maria Adoptrix”
“Azusa”
“How Is Your Revival Going?”
“Luther by Means of Mark”
2015
“Marriage Matters”
“Whose Flannery?”
“Why Preach the Law?”
“The Sacraments in Time, Space, and Matter”
2014
“Learning to Love Leviticus”
“Prosperity Identified, Dissected, and Reconfigured”
“A Lutheran Reflection on C. S. Lewis”
“Loving Brothers, Neighbors, and Enemies”
2013
“Where Have All the Women Gone?”
“Reflections Five Years into Ecumenism”
“The Second Pentecost”
“Jesus Christ, Horror-Defeater”
2012
“What to Do about 2017?”
“II Corinthians Vespers”
“Experiments in Gospel Translation, Part 2”
“Experiments in Gospel Translation, Part 1”
2011
“Law and Gospel (With Some Help from St. John)”
“On Rereading the Book of Concord”
“Exodus Matins”
“What Has Erfurt to Do with Rome?”
2010
“Mildly Opposed to Infant Communion”
“Joyful Exchanges, Part 2”
“Joyful Exchanges, Part 1”
“Preaching the Trinity”
2009
“Why Stay?”
“Ecumenical Liturgy, Its Possibilities and Problems”
“Speak the Truth in Love”
“Saints for Sinners”
2008
“The Face of Jesus, Part 2”
“The Face of Jesus, Part 1”
“The Epistle of Eutyche”
“Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace”
2007
“One Little Word Subdues Him”
“Church Breaks Your Heart”
Not sure where to get started? My favorite article from my whole tenure is “Learning to Love Leviticus” (2014). The others in the top five are “The Verbs of the Resurrection” (2017), “Jesus Christ, Horror-Defeater” (2013), “Saints for Sinners” (2009), and “The Epistle of Eutyche” (2008).
On “popular culture” (very loosely interpreted), see “At the Table Again with Babette” (2018), “Whose Flannery?” (2015), and “A Lutheran Interpretation of C. S. Lewis” (2014).
On the church and how to survive it, including how to think about ecumenism, see “The Church and Happiness” (2018), “How Is Your Revival Going?” (2016), “The Second Pentecost” (2013), “Reflections Five Years into Ecumenism” (2013), “What Has Erfurt to Do with Rome?” (2011), “Why Stay?” (2009), and “Church Breaks Your Heart” (2007).
For classical Lutheran themes, see “Everything You Know about Martin Luther Is Wrong” (2017), “A Primer on Luther’s Politics” (2017), “Luther by Means of Mark” (2016), “Why Preach the Law?” (2015), “What To Do about 2017?” (2012), “On Rereading the Book of Concord” (2011), “Law and Gospel (With Some Help from St. John)” (2011), “Preaching the Trinity” (2010), and “Joyful Exchanges” (parts 1 and 2, 2010).
On the sacraments, see “Still Life with Baptism” (2017), “The Sacraments in Time, Space, and Matter” (2015), and “Mildly Opposed to Infant Communion” (2010).
As for ethics, see “To Be Pro-Life in Every Way” (2018), “‘Fasting and Bodily Preparations Are a Good External Discipline’” (2018), “Marriage Matters” (2015), “Prosperity Identified, Dissected, and Reconfigured” (2014), “Loving Brothers, Neighbors, and Enemies” (2014), and “Where Have All the Women Gone?” (2013).
For experimental and marginal stuff, see “Maria Adoptrix” (2016), “II Corinthians Vespers” (2012), “Experiments in Gospel Translation” (2012), “Exodus Matins” (2011), and “The Face of Jesus” (parts 1 and 2, 2008).