another installation

Two installations in one week? I can hardly stand it. Two days of excitement? Two days of joy? Two days of Lutherany goodness? I think I need to sit down. For the past nine years, Pam has been doing all sorts of wonderful work at Concordia Publishing House. She’s been busy with Vacation Bible School materials, Sunday School materials, pretty-much-anything-with-the-word-school-in-it materials. Now she’ll be kept … Continue reading another installation

dr. rast’s installation

On  Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, Dr. Laurence R. Rast, Jr. was installed as the sixteenth president of Concordia Theological Seminary. It was an exciting day, a good day, a day filled with sunshine, excitement, and tangible optimism. And there was Dr. Scaer. And where Dr. Scaer is, there is wittiness, smarts, ready responses, genuine pastoral care. And there was a lot of laughter, a lot … Continue reading dr. rast’s installation

He Remembers the Barren

Katie Schuermann is a lovely woman, a pious Lutheran, a faithful wife. She’s funny. She’s smart. She’s talented. She’s a daughter, a sister, a godmother, a friend. She also happens to bear a particularly difficult cross, a cross that she’s written about in her newly-released book He Remembers the Barren, a book that tackles how Lutherans understand barrenness, marriage, children, and families in a world … Continue reading He Remembers the Barren