It has come to our attention that certain avid readers of the LF website have not been subscribing to the print magazine because they thought they were getting everything we have to offer online. Egad! There is NO overlap between the print and online versions of LF (except, of course, what you find in the archive). Over on the right side of this website we feature a few choice titles from the issue that is "now in print" to let you know just what you're missing. Every issue has exegesis of New and Old Testament Scripture, an episode in American Lutheran history, a consideration of worship matters, a study in Luther's theology, a new hymn, a biography of a Lutheran saint, a report from a Lutheran church elsewhere in the world, ecumenical perspectives from other churches, and two editorials... not to mention the frequent appearance of philosophy, stories of Lutheran witness in the lefthand kingdom, seminarians' views, the ever-unpredictable "And Now for Something Completely Different" department (everything from Lutheran monks to Lutheran surrealists)... and of course the gorgeous covers with the work of living Lutheran artists.

If you subscribe now, you'll receive in the winter 2010 issue two perspectives on infant communion, the story of a saint you've never heard of (Anna Sarah Kugler, medical missionary to India), Robert Jenson's exegesis of the Trinity in Ezekiel, the explosion of the "myth of the boat" regarding Lutherans and evangelism, theses by Martin Luther that have never before been published in English, a report about the Lutheran church in Jordan and the Holy Land by that church's bishop and new president of the Lutheran World Federation Munib Younan, Dorothea Wendebourg's examination and demolition of the purported ecumenical consensus on the eucharist... and more besides!

In the 2011 issues you'll see an icon of Dietrich Bonhoeffer written by a Catholic iconographer, learn about the first Lutheran martyrs who inspired Luther's very first hymn, read an analysis of the ELCA's statement on genetics, find out about the Lutherans in the Czech Republic, discover the tradition of Lutheran aboriginal art in Australia... and so much more! So don't delay! Subscribe now before all this great stuff passes you by!