Author: Dave Brauer-Rieke

Dave Brauer-Rieke is Bishop of the Oregon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

There will be an answer…

Copyright 2011 Lutheran University Press. This essay will be published by Lutheran University Press in a book entitled Sources of Authority in the Church. Exordium A poem inspired by Genesis 4, the story of humanity’s first child. It’s entitled “Without You.”1 Back before the dawn, east of envy, error or wrong, that’s where I wish […]