Seelsorger: Our Journal

Seelsorger is DOXOLOGY’s journal focused on the faithful care and cure of souls in these gray and latter days.

Each Seelsorger features articles by DOXOLOGY’s Collegium Fellows and by special guests. There are also reviews of insightful resources on the care and cure of souls.

Seelsorger welcomes submissions.

Seelsorger, Volume 9 (Summer 2024)

Volume 9 offers a variety of insights on pastoral care.

Essay 1: How to Be Better Examples during Theological Conflict: Ethos, Pathos, and Unity between Word and Deed. This essay is a helpful guide on how pastors might better disagree with brothers. By Rev. Samuel Bobby
Essay 2: Lifting the Rudder: Listening as an Art in Pastoral Care Planning. This essay is a wise encouragement on the use of silence and listening in pastoral care. By Rev. David Kahle
Essay 3: Invoking the Divine Call. This essay is a careful reflection on when (and when not) a pastor might invoke his Divine Call. By Rev. Timothy Koch
Essay 4: The Pastor: An Essential Worker for Soul and Body. This essay is a deep dive on the importance of visiting souls and how the pastor’s work heals the soul and the body. By Rev. Christopher Maronde
Essay 5: A Focused (and Fun) Way to Pray: Acrostic Prayer for the Pastor and His People. This essay is a down- to-earth helpful guide on employing acrostic prayers when teaching and promoting prayer. By Rev. Dr. Philip Penhallegon

The Pastoral Epistles: A feature providing sample pastoral letters along with running commentary on the writing and spiritual guidance therein.

A letter written to a man whose health is rapidly declining.
A letter written to a woman whose relationship with her pastor is severely strained.

Feature: DOXOLOGY after Fifteen Years. By Rev. Harold Senkbeil

First Things Essay Reprint: Lessons from the Lutheran Tradition for 2024.
By Carl Trueman

Pencil Sketch: Based on Matthew 9:2By Mrs. Theresa Meier

Book Reviews

Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls by Coleman Ford and Shawn Wilhite. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Chad Kendall
Church Music: For the Care of Souls by Phillip Magness. Reviewed by Bethany Johnson
Church Music: For the Care of Souls by Phillip Magness. Reviewed by Pr. Nick Swan
Evangelism: For the Care of Souls by Sean McGever. Reviewed by Rev. Timothy Koch
Three volumes of FatCat: For All God’s Children Series
by Harold Senkbeil and Ben Myers. Reviewed by Dr. Kim Marxhausen
How Should We Then Die? by Ewan Goligher. Reviewed by Rev. Timothy Rynearson
Life in the Negative World by Aaron Renn. Reviewed by Rev. Jonathan Buescher
The Nicene Creed: An Introduction
by Phillip Cary. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. William Weinrich
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With by John Bryant. Reviewed Essay by Rev. Dr. Dennis Matyas
Sculptor Spirit by Leopoldo Sanchez.
Reviewed by Rev. Jonathan Rusnak
London Writings: The Spiritual and Theological Journal of Johann Hamann translated by John Kleinig. Reviewed by Rev. Matthew Huckel
Spiritual Warfare: For the Care of Souls by Harold Ristau. Reviewed by Rev. Timothy Pauls

Pre-Order Volume 9

Seelsorger volume 8 (summer 2023) is a topical issue focusing on the intersection of cohabitation and pastoral care.

Seelsorger Volume 8 (2023) is available at Lulu.com.

Some highlights from Seelsorger Volume 8 (2023):

Rev. Harold L. Senkbeil Excursus on Sex as Christian Confession.
Rev. Samuel Bobby Rhetoric and Vision: Indispensable Aids in Pastoral Care for Cohabiting Couples
Rev. Thomas Brown From Perverted to Predicable: Why Cohabitation Became so Normal and What the Church Can Do about It
Rev. Timothy Koch Inherited Sin: Serving the Cohabiting Couples You Inherit
Lyman Stone Demographic Trends and Insights regarding Cohabitation in North America Today
Dr. Beverly Yahnke By the Numbers (on cohabitation)
Dr. Gene Edward Veith Marriage and Culture
Rev. Kyle James Fittje Cohabitation and Reception of Holy Communion–An Appeal for Evangelical Discipline
Book Reviews
Review Essay I Married You by Walter Trobisch. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Joel P. Meyer
Pastoral Epistles Pastoral Care Letters with evaluation