St Peters Lutheran Church in Orange in central western New South Wales is a high church. That’s a term more commonly used in the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions not typically associated with Lutheran churches. But Pastor David Freckelton insists that the Orange Lutheran church is a high church.

When we arrived, the sun was shining brightly. As we parked the car nearby, our ears rang with the sounds of adolescents screaming vociferously as they dropped from incredible heights on vomit-inducing rides. The smell of deep-fried foods wafted o...

When we arrived, the sun was shining brightly. As we parked the car nearby, our ears rang with the sounds of adolescents screaming vociferously as they dropped from incredible heights on vomit-inducing rides. The smell of deep-fried foods wafted o...

Our Mission As the magazine of the Lutheran Church of Australia (incorporating the Lutheran Church of New Zealand), The Lutheran informs the members of the LCA about the church’s teaching, life, mission and people, helping them to grow in faith an...

Publication and Booking Dates The Lutheran is published on the 1st of every month except January. Our Readership Print run: 8,200Estimated readership: 22,000Coverage: Australia and New ZealandReadership: Adult Lutherans and adults connected with t...

Five days after the earthquake that devastated their city, about 30 people from the small Lutheran community in Christchurch met on Sunday morning for worship services in their darkened church. The services were gentle: some readings, some songs ...

Back in Jesus' day, city walls were meant to keep invaders out. These days the walls in Palestine are meant to keep people in. Yet the freedom of the gospel prevails, as Louise Mason discovered in Bethlehem

Euthanasia will be a hot topic in Australia in 2011, with a federal bill and several state bills to allow lethal doses on request.

We’d retired and settled into a quiet life, spending time with the family, working around the house and garden — filling in time quite nicely, thank you very much. Then bang out of nowhere we were thinking about volunteering overseas to teach English.

It all started with that first wobbly ride on a friend’s new motorbike. He managed twice around the block without coming to grief — and he was hooked. Two weeks later, while on holidays in Adelaide, on impulse 21-year-old Ben Mogg bought a Suzuki GSX 250 and arranged for it to be sent home to Mt Gambier on the train.