Pastor's Corner: When the saints go marching in

How is your Lent, your spiritual lead-up to Easter, going?

Over at First Lutheran and Messiah Lutheran, we've spent out midweek Lenten services exploring the lives of saints whose commemorations fall during March. You might be taken aback by Lutherans honoring saints. You might be thinking, "Isn't that more of a Catholic thing?"

It's true that Lutherans, and Protestants more generally, approach the idea of saints a bit differently than Catholics. And yet, in one of the founding documents of Lutheranism (known at that time as the Evangelical Church) called the Apology to the Augsburg Confession...