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LCMS News

August 28, 2025

In Memoriam (September 2025)

Obituaries for ordained and commissioned ministers.

August 26, 2025

Edward Rechlin: First Concert Organist of the Missouri Synod

Rechlin’s professional life was spent in the service of the Gospel through performance rather than through composition, teaching or parish ministry.

August 20, 2025

Campus clips: God’s gifts of art, music, science

Updates from LCMS schools, campus ministries, universities and seminaries.

August 20, 2025

‘Given for you’: August LW

The August issue of ‘The Lutheran Witness’ considers the Christian’s sacramental life.

August 15, 2025

Walter Wismar: A Kantor for the Whole Church

Walter Wismar’s writing, conducting and leadership modeled the fullest vocation of a Lutheran Kantor.

August 15, 2025

On ‘Paradise Lost’: What Temptation Looks Like

Adam and Eve may have been tempted by the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; readers of Paradise Lost are tempted instead by the character of Satan himself.

August 11, 2025

Martin Lochner: Building a Sacred Music Tradition at River Forest

Martin Lochner continued his family’s legacy of stewarding the rich musical heritage of the Lutheran church as he taught generations of church musicians.