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Karl Jacobson

Karl Jacobson

Author and Senior Pastor, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Minneapolis

The Rev. Dr. Karl Jacobson (M.Div., Luther Seminary; Th.D., Providence) served as Senior Pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg College.

Jacobson was contributing author to Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms (Augsburg Fortress, second edition 2017) and Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms (Augsburg Fortress, second edition, 2019), Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader’s Guide for Discovery and Engagement (Baker Academic, March 2013), commentary on the Book of Numbers in the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: Old Testament and Apocrypha (Fortress, 2014).

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Detail from "The (Little) Tower of Babel" by Peter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1563.

By Karl Jacobson

A Visitor’s Guide to Lutheran-isms 

Insider vocabulary can, if we are not careful, obscure the very gospel we are trying to communicate.

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