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On The Line

Bryan Stecker

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 142

OTL is the Lutheran, Long-Form podcast that engages Theology and Culture. New Episodes Every Monday!

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Dr. Josh Miller | The Church Cannot Become a Political Tool

Season 1 · Episode 141

Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 02:14:27

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Rev. Dr. Joshua Miller to discuss Hermann Sasse, confessional Lutheranism, Nazism, political idolatry, and the dangers facing the Church when Christianity becomes a tool of power.

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Rev. Dr. Joshua Miller serves as pastor of Jehovah Lutheran Church in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also an adjunct professor in the Theology and Ministry Department at Concordia University, St. Paul, and serves as a vice president of the Minnesota South District of the LCMS.

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Duncan McLellan | That’s a Wrap, Folks—OTL is Headed to Ft. Wayne!

Season 1 · Episode 140

Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 38:04

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Pastor Duncan McClellan to reflect on the past, present, and future of On the Line. They also announce the next major chapter for OTL: becoming an independent nonprofit, moving the studio to Fort Wayne, and preparing for new opportunities in Lutheran teaching, apologetics, and long-form media.

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Pastor Duncan McClellan serves as Senior Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Waconia, Minnesota. Trinity helped launch and support On the Line from its beginning, providing the space, resources, and mission support that made the podcast and Lutheran Institute of Theology possible.

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Dr. Donna Harrison | The Pill, Abortion, IVF—and the War on Human Life

Season 1 · Episode 139

Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 02:25:46

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Dr. Donna Harrison to talk about abortion, contraception, IVF, and the medical realities Christians need to understand.

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Dr. Donna Harrison is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and longtime pro-life medical leader. She previously served as CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and later as its Director of Research.

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Dr. Alfonso Espinosa | The Rapture, Israel, & End Times: Is Dispensationalism Biblical?

Season 1 · Episode 138

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 02:18:51

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Rev. Dr. Alfonso Espinosa to talk about dispensationalism, the rapture, Christian apologetics, and how Lutherans should engage a confused and anxious culture. Dr. Espinosa explains why popular end-times teaching has shaped American Christianity, politics, and attitudes toward Israel, and why the Lutheran Church rejects a theology driven by fear, prediction, and political power.

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Rev. Dr. Alfonso Espinosa serves at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church in Irvine, California, and was recently elected Third Vice President of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod for the West-Southwest Region. He is the author of several books on faith and culture, including Faith That Sees Through the Culture, Faith That Engages the Culture, Faith That Shines in the Culture, and Contending for Christ Through the Creed.

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Dr. Benjamin Mayes | What Does Christianity Actually Teach About Marriage and Divorce?

Season 1 · Episode 137

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 02:20:58

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Dr. Benjamin Mayes to talk about divorce, remarriage, and the difficult work of pastoral discernment. Dr. Mayes explains what Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions, and the old Lutheran pastoral tradition teach about the grounds for divorce, the difference between abandonment and ordinary marital hardship, the need for repentance and forgiveness, and why pastors and congregations must handle these cases with clarity rather than vague sympathy or avoidance.

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Dr. Benjamin T. G. Mayes has served as a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, since 2016. His work focuses on Lutheran theology, pastoral care, church history, and the Lutheran tradition of casuistry—cases of conscience where pastors and Christians must discern how God’s Word applies to difficult real-life situations. In this conversation, Dr. Mayes discusses his book Divorce and Remarriage: Ecclesiastical Discernment and Pastoral Care.

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Javier Perdomo | Why I Left the Baptist Church (and Why I Didn't Become Catholic)

Season 1 · Episode 136

Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 03:32:28

Javier Perdomo discusses his journey from Baptist evangelicalism into Lutheranism, the online apologetics world, and the deep questions that lead many young Christians toward Rome, Orthodoxy, or confessional Lutheranism.

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Javier Perdomo is a Lutheran writer and YouTube creator whose work focuses on theology, church history, apologetics, and the claims of Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.

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Marcus Gray | Why Christian Rapper FLAME Became Lutheran

Season 1 · Episode 135

Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 02:57:16

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Flame to talk about his journey from Christian rap and Reformed theology into the Lutheran Church. How did a Grammy-nominated rapper move from the world of evangelicalism, Calvinism, and Christian hip-hop into the confessional Lutheran tradition?

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Flame is a Christian rap artist, author, and Lutheran theologian whose music has reached listeners around the world for more than two decades. A Grammy-nominated and Stellar Award-winning artist, he is currently pursuing doctoral work at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and is the founder of Extra Nos Academy, a project dedicated to using music, media, education, and the arts to introduce Christians to the comfort of the gospel as preserved in the Lutheran Confessions.

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Dr. Arthur Just | Timeless Wisdom for the Church

Season 1 · Episode 134

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 02:32:13

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Rev. Dr. Arthur Just to trace his journey from the turmoil of Vietnam and the aftermath of Seminex to his recovery of mystery, the Eucharist, liturgical theology, and what he calls “the Blick”—the conviction that heaven is present on earth in the flesh of Christ.

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Rev. Dr. Arthur Just has served on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, since 1984, teaching New Testament, liturgics, homiletics, and pastoral theology. He is especially known for his work on the Gospel of Luke, the Emmaus narrative, sacramental theology, and the formative character of Christian worship.

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Dr. John Bombaro | What the Bible Really Teaches About Mary

Season 1 · Episode 133

Monday, July 13, 2026 • Duration 02:12:26

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Rev. Dr. John Bombaro to talk about the Blessed Virgin Mary and why Lutherans should recover a richer, more biblical understanding of her place in the Christian faith.

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Rev. Dr. John Bombaro serves as Senior Pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Lafayette, Indiana, and as an LCMS chaplain in the United States Navy Reserve. A pastor, theologian, and former international theological educator, his work frequently explores Christology, liturgy, church history, and the embodied character of the Christian faith.

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Rev. Zach Zehnder | The Church’s Greatest Opportunity: Forming the Next Generation

Season 1 · Episode 132

Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 02:10:19

Join us at the long table as we sit down with Zach Zehnder to talk about discipleship, Christian formation, the crisis of nominal Christianity, and what it actually looks like to follow Jesus in everyday life.

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Zach Zehnder is a Lutheran pastor, author, and creator of Red Letter Challenge, a discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians move from belief to practice.

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