Robin J. Morgan Learning from our Forebears We are a people who respect our traditions and our past. The Lutheran tradition has produced some of the foremost church historians of the 20th century: Sydney Ahlstrom, Jarislav Pelikan, and Martin Marty. These men, along with many others, have taught us that our history is full of riches that inform …
Lucre, Linus and Luke — Crossing the Current Financial Crises
What a fugly week this has been. And if you don’t recognize that word, you can probably guess what it means and its origins. Or go to www.urbandictionary.com. Ed just asked me in his own cryptic way if I would consider writing the Thursday Theology for this week. My initial reaction was “you’ve got to be kidding me.” …
41 Days and 40 nights in Europe – Part II
Colleagues, After last week’s interlude to remember the events of September 11, 2001, it’s back to “How I spent my summer” (well, half of it). In the first paragraph of Part I (The missiology conference in Hungary)–a fortnight ago–I promised not to give a travelogue, but focus on three items for three ThTh postings. The missiology conference in …
It’s September 11 Again. It’s been 7 years.
Colleagues, It’s September 11 again. It’s been 7 years. And nothing has really changed. Especially in my nation. The basics of the Bible’s political theology continue to be accurate. The nations continue to rage and the people plot in vain. The Babel story continues to be the blueprint: “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower …
IAMS XII
Colleagues: After 41 day and 40 nights (sounds almost Biblical) we’re back home–and grateful to Robin Morgan (as of yesterday a grandmother) for keeping ThTh flowing for these past weeks. My plan is not a show-and-tell of all that happened during those days — though there are a lot of wild stories — but to focus on three …
F.W. Herzberger Part Four — Herzberger’s Theological Legacy Robin J. Morgan
The one man who wrote for the Associated Lutheran Charities and most clearly carried Herzberger’s theological legacy beyond Herzberger’s lifetime was Richard R. Caemmerer, Sr. Caemmerer was pastor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in St. Louis when he wrote “Lutheran Social Action” for the ALC in 1938. This article was the first of many that he wrote about …
F.W. Herzberger Part Three — Herzberger’s Theological Legacy
Ministries such as City Mission are never done in a vacuum. From the beginning, Herzberger had a variety of people who supported the work he was doing and as he moved out into the community, more and more people were drawn to the needs he was addressing and the way in which he was working. This kind of …
F.W. Herzberger Part Two
[F.W. Herzberger was the first Lutheran city missionary in St. Louis. His City Mission was the founding organization of Lutheran Ministries Association, now Humanitri. His example of passion for the Gospel and for the people he served as well as his perseverance against opposition and rousing indifference intrigued me and led me to dig further. Here, is part …
Part One — F.W. Herzberger
The next four weeks (while I’m in charge and before Ed and Marie get back from Europe and over jet-lag) are going to be devoted to some research I did to discover how Lutherans in earlier generations did city ministry. I was working in the city of St. Louis at the time and was concerned about the struggles …
Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali By J. Stephen Lansing Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press 2007 [Reprint of 1991 original] xxxii,183 pp., paper, $18.95 Review by Edward H. Schroeder If this review were not destined for a scholarly journal, it might begin like this: “Green Revolution ruins rice harvest in Bali. …