On The Line
OTL is the Lutheran, Long-Form podcast that engages Theology and Culture. New Episodes Every Monday!
Episodes
105 episodes
Bryan and Bennett Reflect on 2025
Join us at the long table as we reflect on the mission of On The Line, give thanks for God’s blessings over the past year, and look ahead to what lies before us. In this special Christmas-week episode, we share why digital presence matters for ...
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Lennox Kalifungwa: Why Christianity is Still Winning
Join us in Moscow, Idaho, as we consider the global Church through the lens of confession, mission, and formation. From Lutheran growth in the Global South to the challenges of theological education, cultural pressure, and faithful catechesis, ...
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Episode 104
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2:07:28
Dr. John Bombaro: This New Shroud of Turin Evidence Will Stun You
Join us at the long table as we explore why Christ alone is the form, logic, and life of the Church. From liturgy to ontology, from beauty to sacrament, we examine how losing Christ as the center leads to confusion—and how recovering Him as the...
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Episode 103
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2:11:58
Heath Curtis: What New Research Reveals About the Future of Lutheranism
Join us at St. John's Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, as we confront the challenging demographic realities facing the Church today. From collapsing birthrates to declining confirmation classes, from cultural drift to weakened discipleship...
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Episode 102
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Dr. Joe Rigney: This Lie Has Undermined the Church
Join us in Moscow, Idaho, as we confront the rise of untethered empathy—the cultural force that rewards victimhood, shuts down truth, and manipulates compassion. Drawing on theology, psychology, and the failures of modern institutions, we exami...
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Episode 101
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Rev. Ian Kinney: A Movement for Lutheran Men is Beginning
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Episode 100
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Stefan Gramenz: Why the Lutheran Church is the Ancient Church
Join us at the long table as we rediscover the roots of Lutheran identity—not as a revolution that tore down the past, but as a recovery of the Church’s ancient beauty, order, and faith. From the Augsburg Confession to the Lutheran Missal Proje...
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Episode 99
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Dr. Louis Markos: What C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Saw Coming
Join us at the long table as we explore how C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien fused reason and imagination, Athens and Jerusalem—showing how truth, goodness, and beauty still shape the Christian mind. In an age ruled by cynicism, reductionism, and ...
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Episode 98
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Dr. Benjamin Kwashi: Archbishop Exposes Christian Genocide in Nigeria
Join us at the long table as we hear the story of persecution and faith in Nigeria, where thousands of Christians have been killed for confessing Christ. Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi bears witness to the cost of discipleship, the power of forgive...
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Episode 97
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Col. Willie Grills: What the LDS Church Really Believes
Join us at the long table as we retrace the forgotten corners of American religion, from frontier revivalism and folk magic to the birth of Mormonism, and ask what these movements reveal about faith, authority, and the hunger for revelation in ...
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Episode 96
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Evan Scamman: Defending Confessional Lutheranism & Infant Baptism
Join us at St. John's Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, as we rediscover the treasures of confessional Lutheranism, explore why beauty, truth, and order still matter, and confront what’s lost when the Church trades her birthright for the fa...
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Episode 95
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2:07:11
America is a Christian Nation: The History We've Forgotten | Dr. Jared Longshore
Join us in Moscow, Idaho, as we recover a biblical vision of politics, family, and freedom—exploring how God orders nations and households, why secular neutrality is a myth, and how Christians can live publicly and courageously in the world wit...
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Episode 94
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1:20:24
Dr. Angus Menuge: Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and C.S. Lewis' Warning About the End of Man
Join us at Concordia University Wisconsin as we wrestle with the philosophy of mind, the challenge of materialism, and the promise and peril of new technologies—from AI to transhumanism—and ask what it means to be truly human in light of God’s ...
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Episode 93
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Jason Braaten: Grit, Determination, and Overcoming Challenges
Join us at St. John's Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, as we talk about resilience in the pastoral life, the discipline of daily habits, and the courage to face adversity—not as exceptions to the Christian life, but as God’s very means of ...
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Episode 92
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Dr. John Bombaro: Why the Lutheran Teaching on the Eucharist & Liturgy Surprises Catholics
Join us at Concordia University Wisconsin as we enter a conversation that refuses to leave Christ as a vague center-point, but insists on Him as the very logic of theology, worship, and the Church itself. From liturgy to sacrament, from ontolog...
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Episode 91
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Doug Wilson: Christian Nationalism, Feminism, & Restoring Sanity
Join us in Moscow, Idaho, as we confront the shifting ground of culture and politics, consider what it means for Christ to be Lord over nations, and ask how households, churches, and schools can stand firm against the forces unraveling our comm...
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Episode 90
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1:26:31
Dr. Susan Mobley: This Idea Changed Everything (And We Barely Noticed)
Join us at the long table as we trace the story of education from the Reformation to today, uncover how classical models form character and cultivate virtue, and ask what it means to recover wisdom, truth, and beauty in a modern age of confusio...
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Episode 89
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1:45:09
Dr. Joel Biermann & Rev. David Ramirez: Debate on Christian Nationalism
Join us at the long table as we open our debate series with a pressing question for the Church: What does it mean to speak of “Christian nationalism,” and how should Lutherans think about Christendom, the state, and our public witness in a frac...
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Episode 88
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President Rev. John Hill: Where is the Lutheran Church Going? Leadership, Education, and Renewal
Join us at the long table as we reflect on the challenges and opportunities facing confessional Lutheranism today, from sustaining faithful congregations in rural America to building institutions that serve future generations of the Church....
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Episode 87
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Dr. James Lee: Lutheranism After Luther (The Untold 1800s Story)
Join us at the long table as we explore the Lutheran confessional revival of the nineteenth century, uncover the lives and thought of its key theologians, and consider what their witness offers the Church today in an age of doctrinal confusion ...
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Episode 86
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1:29:43
Tim Wood: What the Data Says About the Future of Lutheranism
Join us at the long table as we take an unflinching look at the numbers shaping the future of Lutheranism—and consider how honesty, clarity, and confessional faithfulness can guide the Church through challenge and change.About Today’s Gu...
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Episode 85
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Col. Willie Grills: Reality is Not What You Think: Aliens, Demons, and Cryptids
Join us at the long table as we question the official story, explore the rise of conspiracy thinking, and ask how Christians can remain anchored in truth and humility while navigating a world of collapsing narratives and contested realities.
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Episode 84
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1:55:11
Dr. Louis Markos: Awakening the Christian Mind: Paganism vs. Modernism vs. Christianity
Join us at the long table as we recover the moral imagination, rediscover the wisdom of the ancients, and explore how story—rooted in truth, beauty, and goodness—forms the heart and mind for Christian living in an age of fragmentation.Ab...
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Episode 83
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Jacob Benson: Reigniting Wonder: How All Great Stories Echo the One True Story
Join us at the long table as we explore how stories shape the Christian imagination, from the parables of Christ to the poetry of Tolkien, where beauty, suffering, virtue, and vocation meet in the narrative of redemption.About Today’s Gu...
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Episode 82
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1:40:43
Dr. Joel Biermann: How Lutherans Understand Good Works (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)
Join us at the long table as we dig into what it means to be wholly citizens of both heaven and earth, recover a robust Lutheran ethic, and consider how virtue, identity, and vocation shape Christian witness in a fragmented age.About Tod...
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Episode 81
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