Interview with Dr. Joel Bierman. Dr. Biermann is the Waldemar A. and June Schuette Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

What are the issues today about faith and doubt? What should the Church be saying and doing?

Christianity is not about telling people how to be good. It’s about telling people how our good God declares us good on account of what Jesus has done for us.

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Pentecost inaugurates the third act of the Trinity’s presence on earth. The Spirit’s work is to draw us deeper in participation in the life of the Trinity, which is a vast topic slowly considered during Pentecost, the longest season of the church year.