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by Rev Dr Maurice Schild

Professor Hermann Sasse came to Australia in 1949 with the post-war migrant wave. Notwithstanding his call to lecture in Church History at Immanuel Seminary, he was still to some extent… Read more

by Reid Matthias

As the sun set below the western horizon, darkness settled over the ocean like an ebony blanket. I stood on the balcony, grasping the railing and watching lightning bolts touch… Read more

by Rev Dr Steen Olsen

I met Anja* when she had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It happened many years ago, when I was a Lutheran chaplain in a large city hospital. We saw… Read more

by Rev Dr Steen Olsen

You are relaxing with friends. Most of them are not Christian. They know you are involved in the Lutheran Church. One of them says, ‘I saw on the news that… Read more

by Rachel Kuchel

Picnic … a day of nerves and excitement. In the 1800s the annual school examination was monumental for students, teachers and congregations alike, for everyone was invited. In 1857, teacher… Read more

by Reid Matthias

Sometimes it seems like every church is on an endless quest to figure it out—to find the formula to bring people into membership. I guess we’ve tried every possible recipe:… Read more