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11 mins read|06/05/26We’re in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd’s Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), “Crises and Sources of Strength”: “Christians had been systematically persecuted by the Nazis, and this systematic persecution continued in soviet countries. However, in Western Europe, church leaders like Bo Giertz saw how increasing industrialization was also assisting an increasing secularism. There were huge population shifts into the city, and people lost track of the church even as the church lost track of the people during these shifts. Some political parties were also actively hostile to the church. The trends toward secularism and atheism in the West have continued, of course, and have also become a point of consternation for believers even to this day. This age has not ceased to be evil since Paul designated it as such in Gal. 1:4. So the church continues and will continue to suffer crises, and so the essay “Crises and Sources of Strength” takes on a sort of timeless dimension that way.
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10 mins read|03/06/26The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
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10 mins read|02/25/26Christian faith is never a solitary possession. When the congregation confesses, the old speak for the young, the strong for the weak, and the clear-voiced for the trembling.
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13 mins read|02/06/26The Bible isn’t a set of moral examples or religious insights. It’s the record of God’s saving work, fulfilled in Christ, delivered now through words spoken and heard.
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11 mins read|10/08/25When a congregation is abused by its pastor, it loses more than a shepherd. It loses its threshold place; that fragile seam between earth and heaven.
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13 mins read|10/01/25This article is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will take a look at when pastors abuse their congregations.
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9 mins read|08/30/25Take Me to Church. In this episode, we read Bo Giertz’s "Christ’s Church: Her Biblical Roots, Her Dramatic History, Her Saving Presence, Her Glorious Future." The Church, who is she? What kind of life is present within the church walls? Who wants to understand that life better and know more about it? We read Christ's Church and take you on a walk from her biblical roots toward her glorious future.
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10 mins read|08/27/25Here is the true story, the one worth remembering: You are a gift.
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12 mins read|08/07/25We don’t need another brand. We need a people who remember who they are. And that’s us, Gen-X.
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9 mins read|07/24/25The danger is not destruction. It is reduction.
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11 mins read|07/08/25We don’t flinch at sin. We speak Christ into it.
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11 mins read|06/27/25The Church speaks not with the cleverness of men, but with the breath of God.
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