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LCMS News

September 25, 2025

In Memoriam (October 2025)

Obituaries for ordained and commissioned ministers.

September 23, 2025

Board of Directors statement on concluded litigation

A statement from the LCMS Board of Directors.

September 19, 2025

Campus clips: Synod schools celebrate blessings

Updates from LCMS schools, universities and seminaries.

September 19, 2025

On ‘My Ántonia’: Bodily Life as Fallen and Redeemed Creatures

My Ántonia invites the reader to look closely at one life, so closely that it becomes a window for looking at one’s own life, and every human life.

September 18, 2025

September ‘Witness’: Lutheran theology of the body

The September issue of ‘The Lutheran Witness’ looks at the theology of the human body from a Lutheran and biblical perspective.

September 18, 2025

Lutherans Engage – Fall 2025

The church welcomes all people — the old, the young, those from every ethnicity and nation — into God’s eternal family.

September 18, 2025

Valued Members of the Body of Christ

Around the United States, Lutheran pastors and laypeople walk alongside those who are shut in or homebound, helping to keep them connected to the congregation and to Christ.

September 18, 2025

Shining Christ’s Light from Coast to Coast

Chinese ministries in New York City and Los Angeles are thriving.

September 18, 2025

The Mission Goes On

The mission of proclaiming the Gospel goes on, no matter the trials and tribulations or challenges and changes we face.

September 17, 2025

A pastoral word from President Harrison

The Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, shares pastoral wisdom on recent events.

September 15, 2025

The Treasure of Lutheran Sacred Music

Music has always played an integral role in Lutheran worship.

September 8, 2025

Theodore Stelzer: Seward’s “Renaissance Man”

Stelzer believed in the power of Lutheran music, as animated by the Gospel.

September 1, 2025

Our Bodies: Created Good, Redeemed for Eternity

People often ask what heaven will be like. We know what it will be like. We’ll be like Jesus, body and soul. And we’ll enjoy a flesh-and-blood eternity.