- Whose Trial?
Co-Missioners,
A week and a half ago Michael Hoy sent us a reflection on the impeachment trial that ended yesterday. It still bears reading. Mike served for a time as a Crossings editor. He is also the scholar who ushered two books by Bob Bertram into posthumous publication.
God grant the repentance that Mike invokes.
Peace and Joy,
The ...
- The Homiletical Bind: Preaching Law and Gospel in the Congregation
The Homiletical Bind: Preaching Law and Gospel in the Congregation
- More Scraps on the Politics of Epiphany
Co-Missioners,
On a day when our editor is still scrambling to get his wits together in the wake of this week’s Crossings conference, we send along a bit of follow-up to last week’s post on the politics of Epiphany. There will be more of that in coming weeks. The aim for now is simply to stir ...
- The Politics of Epiphany
Co-Missioners,
We send along a piece of commentary by our editor. “Unfinished,” he calls it, and for several reasons. Feedback is welcome.
Peace and Joy,
The Crossings Community
The Politics of Epiphany
by Jerome Burce
Many years ago I imagined the Word of God working on me the way a stream of water works on a piece of granite. It takes ...
- Mission in St. Matthew
Mission in St. Matthew
Co-Missioners,
St. Matthew is the Gospel being heard this year in churches that follow the three-year lectionary. So we send along some tips from Richard Gahl on how it speaks to our calling as agents of the Gospel, dispatched week after week to those corners of the world we inhabit in 2020.
Peace and ...
- Chad Bird on the Baptism of Jesus
The Hebrew Stories Swimming Beneath Jesus’s Baptism
Co-Missioners,
Today’s post is the briefest ever, at least where our own writers are concerned. It consists of a link we want you to follow to a little essay by Chad Bird. Bird will be one of the key presenters at our forth coming conference (January 26-29). Here, then, is ...
- Sheep, Goats—and Gospel? A New Year’s Homily
Co-Missioners,
On this second day of a new calendar year, we send you a homily that a little clutch of Lutherans heard two nights ago in suburban Cleveland. It comes with a brief prefatory comment by the preacher, Jerry Burce.
We wish you a Happy New Year, as in a twelve-month stretch of days made lively by ...
- A Thought for Christmas and a Conference Invitation
A Thought for Christmas and a Conference Invitation
Co-Missioners,
Christmas is six days away, or five and a half if you launch the celebration at six o’clock on Christmas Eve. That’s exactly what most all of us do, of course. Between now and then lies the Fourth Sunday of Advent, another name for which could well be ...
- The Original “Christmas Crossing”
The Original “Christmas Crossing”
Co-Missioners,
We’ve been making an explicit effort this past year to pitch our Thursday Theology offerings for an audience somewhat wider than the subset that preaches sermons on Sundays or otherwise revels in the arcane pleasures of academic theology. Today we trifle with that rule by sending you an item that was written ...
- “When God is Silent.” A Sermon
“When God is Silent.”
Co-Missioners,
Those in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere—the majority of you, we imagine—are enduring the early winter miseries of long nights and raw, bitter days. These somehow heighten the contrast between our experience of the world as it currently is and the promises of the age to come that the texts ...
