Why Jesus?

Colleagues. After this 2-paragraph personal prolegomena, the real theology follows. [Journal entry for Aug. 12, 1999 Yesterday’s solar eclipse is followed (so tells us BBC’s “World Service”) by today’s 50th anniv. of the Geneva Conventions for conducting decent wars. I wonder about a connection. To wit, the eclipse (even total?) of what glowed in Geneva a half century …

Remembering Mr. Makoto Mizuno

Colleagues, Background — In the run up to Seminex’s 25th anniversary gathering (St. Louis , June 1999) we learned of the death of Makoto Mizuno, director of another seminary in exile, this one in Japan. These folks called themselves “Aoyama Seminex” to signal their linkage with us after they were deposed from Aoyama Gakuin, a university of the …

Mid-summer items on Law and Gospel

Colleagues, Mid-summer items on Law and Gospel– Item #1. From Tom Droege, retired ELCA pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, comes this report of something I don’t get to see at my cureent venue. Many of you on this listserve probably don’t either. So I send it on to you FYI and FYE: for your information and for your …

Rebuttal of Poetic Preaching — THTH57&58

Ah, the joys of cyberspace — Ed can instantly critique me even when he’s half a world away! Enjoy, Robin Ive read ThTh58, “Poetic Preaching – Part 2,” several times and I wonder– Can a recommendation for “poetic preaching . . . touching the whole person – head, heart, emotions, soul, and body” be grounded in a …

Poetic Preaching — part 2 Robin Morgan

Last week I talked about an African-American preaching workshop I attended which had been given by Father Maurice Nutt, who is finishing a doctorate of ministry in preaching at the Aquinas Institute here in St. Louis. I talked about the significance of poetic language in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ, especially at this juncture in the …

Poetic Preaching by Robin Morgan

A couple of weeks ago I was part of a preaching workshop called “Preaching in the African-American Catholic Setting for Non-African Americans.” It was taught by Maurice Nutt, an African-American priest finishing up his DMin in preaching at the Aquinas Institute here in St. Louis. If I were to sum up what I learned in a sentence, it …

TELLING TIME or Whose Millennium Is It Anyway?

Robert Bertram [Address at the 25th Anniversary of Christ Seminary Seminex, at Atonement Lutheran Church, June 25, 1999.] Twenty-five years ago we learned a new phrase from the Formula of Concord, “a time for confessing.” (SD X,10) What kind of time is that? What does it teach us about time in general, all time? 1. The Stifled Second …

Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular World

Colleagues, Three days hence Marie and I, God willing, fly off to Indonesia for my three-month stint as pastor in the English-language Christian congregation in Bali. We hope to have Email access, but at present details are fuzzy. If you need to know, consult ThTh co-host Robin Morgan. She’ll know as soon as we know. Should Email …

A Response to Homosexuality and Reformation Theology

Here is Steve Albertin’s response to Ed’s THTH #51 about homosexuality and Ed’s response to Steve’s response. Enjoy, Robin Ed, I never thought I would ever say this but you sound antinomian. First, in your discussion of the orders of creation, you seem to want to bless every “given” that someone has in his experience. Just because …