Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

For those of you wondering why I am hammering on this theme the answer is that it is important.  We have a threefold emphasis in our church body – Witness, Mercy, and Life Together.  Our life together is suffering becaue...

It may be a story that changed the world but it doesn’t seem to have changed the church much.  One of our synod officials recently said that he was appalled at how much unreconciled conflict existed in our life together. ...

I spend a lot of time talking about a “purposeful reliance upon doctrine”.  What I mean is this – to be a “confessional Lutheran” means that there are things that we believe and teach and confess...

Rodney King who recently passed away was famous for a beating that he took in Los Angeles at the hands of the police and the riots and death that took place after that.  I never considered him an intellectual giant and certainly...