Crossings

Co-missioners, One of us was poking around recently in a well-organized box of the late Ed Schroeder’s files. From it she extracted the sermon we send you today. Ed preached it on August 29, 2010, at St. Mark Lutheran Church …

ONE FLESH John 6:56-69Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Lectionary 21), Year BAnalysis by Fred Niedner 56“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live …

Co-missioners, Last month we started sharing brief reflections about the political and cultural state of the U.S. this summer as seen through the lenses of Crossings-style theology. We posted two sets of these reflections on consecutive Thursdays. Then came a …

Co-missioners, We meant it last week when we launched a community discussion of America’s current political and cultural situation as seen through the confessional lenses we use at Crossings. Today we send you two ice-breaking contributions to the conversation. One …

RUNNING ON JESUS! John 6:24-35Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Lectionary 18), Year BAnalysis by Robin Lutjohann 24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for …

Co-missioners, Our editor sends an initial response to a question that came our way in recent days. Peace and Joy,The Crossings Community ____________________________________________________________________ Thoughts on the Mess We Are In (Set One of ???)Initiated by Jerome Burce Four Thursdays ago, …

BREAD FOR A HUNGRY WORLD John 6:1-21Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Lectionary 17), Year BAnalysis by Louis Moehlman 1After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2A large crowd kept …

  LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD   Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Analysis by Brian Moeller 30The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. 31He said to them, “Come away to …

Co-missioners, The year was 1977. Seminex was three years old. In recent months congregations distressed by the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s turn to the right—its legalism, as they were quick to call it—had begun withdrawing to establish the new Association of …