Evangelism springs from Luther’s Small Catechism into the newspaper. This book shares from the author’s experiences in writing religion articles published in his local newspaper. It presents ideas about the Catechism and evangelism, and about newspaper evangelism. It explains an approach to writing catechetical newspaper articles and includes three dozen of the author’s published articles as examples of the approach.

Contents

Introduction

Evangelism and the Small Catechism

- Reformation of the Catechism

- Evangelical Even Where Not Expected

- Throbbing with Genius; Ready to Give an Answer

Newspaper Evangelism

- Fountain of Ideas

- Have Something to Say

- Welcome Your New Friend: the Word Limit

- Wisdom Cries Out in the Street

- Interest and Illustration

- Inspiration and Perspiration

- Confessional Fidelity

Example Newspaper Articles

- Christ’s State of Humiliation

- Christ’s State of Exaltation

- Trinity

- Baptism