Marie here. No apparent changes in Ed’s symptoms. Headache remedies working most of the time. Double vision and weakness persist.Steve Krueger offered Ed this piece for ThTh posting. Although the hospice note seems not to be our situation, the good gospel that Steve offers is good news indeed. Steve Krueger currently serves as a chaplain for LifePath …
Sin and Forgiveness: How Bad the First One, How Good the Second?
Friends, Marie here. There seems to be no significant change in Ed’s health. Stronger headache medications make that pain almost go away. Double vision and weakness persist. Several of you have told him he could take a rest from these postings for a while. He agrees with that, so there may be a pause if the health …
Mission Impossible?
Colleagues: Asked many weeks ago to preach for a Mission Festival at two rural congregations in southern Illinois this coming weekend, Ed planned (as is his wont) to base the sermon on the gospel prescribed for the day in the Revised Common Lectionary. It was a bit of a jolt for him to discover the incongruity of …
Can Rome be Home? Yes and No Answers from 2 Canadian Anglicans.
Colleagues, [Marie here. Ed’s pretty sick. He’s had erratic blood sugars, headache, nausea, developing into double vision and weakness. Blood tests, CAT scan, ophthalmalogical examination for intraocular pressure are all normal. No one knows what’s up. Duration now 12 days. Will see a neuroophthalmologist, but not for another 8 days. And with no diagnosis, there’s no treatment. …
Letter to President Bush
Colleagues, Only two of you responded to last week’s “poofed” piece. One to tell me (much thanks) that it was Schiller who said “Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.” The other asked if President Bush were not in fact following Luther’s adage in the “Secular Authority” treatise that the prime calling of the prince is to “protect” his …
The Theology in President Bush’s Fifth Anniversary “Sermon” for Nine-Eleven (But all in vain)
Colleagues, Just minutes ago this was ready to go. Or so I thought. I had just gone back to the Crossings webpage for one more tidbit–to copy in the following reference to Lincoln’s actually pulling off a National Day of Repentance from the ThTh archives – https://crossings.org/thursday/2004/thur112504.shtml”Proclamation Appointing a “National Day of Fasting, Prayer and Humiliation” Washington, D.C. …
Bonhoeffer, “German Christians,” and American National Religion
Colleagues, Preface (a tad long)”Terror Threat Remains, Bush says.” That was Wednesday’s newspaper headline here in St. Louis as we approach the fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center inferno. But in those five years the US president seems not to have learned much about the source of the terror. Yet he should. Not because he’s got …
Craig Nessan’s Sermon: “Lazarus!”
Colleagues, Three postings ago, on August 10 (ThTh #426), I reviewed the sermon I’d heard the previous Sunday on the weekend of the Schroeder clan reunion. As I weighed it, I found it wanting–and I said so. When the preacher, my good friend, Craig Nessan of Wartburg Seminary (Dubuque Iowa), read my review, he said I’d not …
Should We Go Down With the Ship?
Colleagues, This week’s ThTh comes from Robin Morgan. With her dissertation done, Robin’s waiting for the next commencement ceremony at St. Louis University to get that doctor’s hood draped over her shoulders. For now she’s interim pastor at Peace Lutheran Church in Washington, Missouri. Robin’s a theologian-pastor, as you have seen from her previous posts on this …
Retiring from Doing Theology
Colleagues, Back in the days when I was head-honcho of Crossings Community’s operation (1983-93), it was a three-point parish: semester-long courses [“Crossings from Luke” or Matthew or Isaiah or Romans or Psalms or Acts, etc–finally 21 such titles in the curriculum], weekend workshops linking Sunday texts to Daily Work [in the high season every other weekend somewhere in …