This is Captain Larkin O’Hearn. Two years ago, on a steamy day in June, my dear friends Katie and Michael Schuermann, and my coworker Al and I met him in Texas.

Continue reading “a hand to shake”

The next issue of The Lutheran Witness is all about the persecution of Christians: in Africa, France, Russia, Germany.

But it’s also happening here, in America, to us.

Let me tell you about a young man I know, a member of a faithful LCMS congregation. Continue reading “persecution in the ball diamond”