*In This Issue*

*The Results are In: Evangelical Style and Lutheran Substance are Not Compatible – Burnell F. Eckardt Jr.*
*The Strength of Youth and Wise Gray Heads: What the LCMS Needs Right Now – David H. Petersen*
*Why Rubrics? (Continued) – Mark P. Braden*
*The Three Estates: Let’s Try to Unravel a Knot – John R. Stephenson*
The Perfect Family? – Karl F. Fabrizius

Plus Vesting Prayers and the 2026 Liturgical Calendar

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Mar 10, 2026

Stefan Gramenz

We Have Got to Talk About Usury (Part XX): Where We Go From Here

Mar 10, 2026

Stefan Gramenz

We have now reached the conclusion of a long and sustained inquiry; nine months of research and many tens of thousands of words devoted to a single controversial question. Over the course of our series, we have traced the history of the church’s teaching on this topic and have seen that, for the greater part of that history, her judgment regarding usury was neither tentative nor obscure, but clear and consistent.

So the questions that remain are altogether practical: What are we to do with these findings? How should they be applied? And what conclusions follow for contemporary economic life?