- The Call to Common Mission [CCM] – One More Time
Colleagues,
I’d (almost) taken a vow of silence on ever mentioning CCM again in ThTh after having done so several times in the past 2 years. My own take was, and still is, that unrestricted church-life between US Lutherans and Episcopalians was indeed a good/godly thing, but that the historic episcopate , now woven into the ...
- The People of God in the Holy Land Today
Colleagues,
Tom Getman works in the Jerusalem office of “World Vision.” World Vision is one of the superstars in today’s world-wide Christian mercy ministries. Tom passed this on to some of us yesterday.Even so, Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
Date: al Naqba Day – May 15, 2001
[Ed’s note: al Naqba, “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the name Palestinians ...
- Eucharistic Community: A Canadian Case Study
Colleagues,
Two weeks ago Marie and I were in British Columbia, Canada. Main reason was an invitation from ELCA people out in the northwest corner of the USA. They picked Victoria BC–“across the creek” from Seattle/Tacoma–as their conference venue and asked me to speak on the theme “Mission – Inside Out.” Pat Keifert was on the ...
- Responses to ThTh 148:”Easter without Eucharist. Feast or Fast?”
Colleagues,
The ThTh posting just before Easter (148) reported the battle waged by one of you subscribers just to get the eucharist celebrated in 2 of the 4 Easter services at a big ELCA congregation in the upper midwest. No surprise, it elicited responses. Here are some of them.Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
RESPONSES
An ELCA pastor in FloridaThanks ...
- The Theology of West Wing
Today’s Thursday Theology comes from Jim Squire. After hearing that Paul’s breakthrough on faith which became Luther’s (Romans 1:16-17) actually came from one of the Hebrew prophets (Habakkuk) and that there is a minor tradition throughout Judaism that, when faced with the question asked of Jesus (“Which is the greatest sentence of the Law”), a ...
- Easter Message from the Holy Land
From Bishop Munib Younan
Easter Message from the Holy Land
Salaam and Grace in the name of our Crucified and Risen Lord, Jesus Christ.
As I write this message of Easter, I really do not know where to start, lest somebody will ask me: What is the truth?
It seems that the truth lies beyond the thoughts of our ...
- Easter without Eucharist. Feast or Fast?
Colleagues,
This time a bit of narrative theology. It’s a letter from a ThTh subscriber (also a good friend from days gone by) about his efforts to “save” Easter in a controversy with his own pastor. I thought about captioning it: “The Natives are Getting Restless. Thank God!” But discretion prevailed and I opted for the ...
- The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and Lutherans in Eastern Europe. Part 2
Colleagues,
Our posting of two weeks ago, ThTh145, offered documentation and comment on the work of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (primarily its Ft. Wayne, Indiana, seminary) in Eastern Europe these days. That prompted some response from seminary profs in the Baltics and in St. Petersburg, Russia. The item below comes from Russia. It is ...
- Dark Gethsemane: A Lenten Message from the Holy Land
Colleagues,
We continue to get postings every few days from Christians in the Holy Land–some of them from people we know in the Lutheran Church in Palestine and Jerusalem. Back around Christmas time we posted a few of these messages to you on the ThTh listserve. Here is another such posting for Lent. The text for ...
- The Missouri Synod’s Presence in Eastern European Lutheranism
Colleagues,
ThTh 145 consists of five items about church conflict and church politics amongst Lutherans in Eastern Europe & the involvement of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (USA) in the turmoil.
Even so, Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
NEWS RELEASE – LWF
Caption: LWF General Secretary Comments on Establishment of Belarusian
Church: “Separation in ELCROS will have Negative Consequences in ...
