Rev. Dr. Benjamin J. Nickodemus serves as Associate Pastor at Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, OR (ELCA). He holds a PhD in Biblical Studies – New Testament emphasis from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis (2023). His dissertation was entitled, The Apocalyptic Character of the Ethnic Identity Argument in Galatians. He is particularly interested in using new interpretive models to understand the Pauline epistles and traditional Lutheran Theology.
Book Review: How the Light Shines Through: Resilient Witness in Dark Times by Chad Lakies
October/November 2025: Lutheran Responses to the Crises in Higher Education (Volume 25 Issue 6)
[1] Chad Lakies’s argument in his book How the Light Shines Through: Resilient Witness in Dark Times challenges the church to take seriously the pluralistic secular age we live within and approaches theology and faith in a new way but does not encourage the church to lose its own identity in the process. This book […]