- The Holy Thing of Holy Week
This week we bring you a short piece by the Rev. Dr. Steven Kuhl, longtime president of the Crossings Community board of directors and current rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Steve wrote this piece for his parish newsletter. As he explained to us by e-mail, he intends it to serve ...
- A Grass-roots Theologian on the Faith-Works Connection
Colleagues,
I won’t tell you his name because I don’t have his permission to do that. If I asked him for it he’d likely demur. He’d wonder why the likes of you would be at all interested in what he had to say. I suspect he’d object vigorously to being styled as a theologian. I’ll do ...
- A Lenten Labyrinth
This week we’re pleased to bring you another sermon from Marcus Felde, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Indianapolis and frequent Crossings writer. (We last featured one of his sermons in Thursday Theology #808.) Marcus preached this sermon on Ash Wednesday of this year, on the Old Testament reading of Joel 2:1-2, 12-17.
With his usual ...
- What the Bishop Said about “Repent,” and other Post-Conference Notes.
Colleagues,
We got a note from one of you last week reminding us that this is supposed to be a weekly blog. It has not been that in 2014 so far. Whether we’ll get back to that pace remains to be seen. For your generous patience as we work in that direction, our thanks. Meanwhile, and ...
- African Realities Today Through Lutheran Lenses
Colleagues,
Last September Gary Simpson, systematic theology prof at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, was whisked to Tanzania, not quite like Elijah and the fiery chariot (but close), for a Lutheran World Federation event. Since he’s my “Doktor-kind,” Seminex’s first doctorate granted in systematic theology, I try to keep track of him. Not easy to do ...
- The Good News of St. Matthew’s Genealogy
Colleagues,
I trust that most all of you know who Marcus Felde is. If not, you should. These days he edits our quarterly Crossings newsletter. He’s a long-serving member of the Crossings Board. And if you follow his occasional text studies in our weekly Sabbatheology series, you’ll know what I mean when I say that he ...
- Can One “Preach” the Law? An Interchange, Part 2
Colleagues,
Last week we sent you a swap of notes between Ed Schroeder and Martin Lohrmann on the question of whether the verb ‘to preach’ is appropriate for talk from a pulpit (or, as in lots of places these days, a “platform”) about the Law of God. As the second round of notes will confirm, the question is ...
- Can One “Preach” the Law? An Interchange, Part 1
Colleagues,
Now that Christmas sermons have been filed in whatever repository preachers may use for such things, we may as well return to a theme we’ve touched on more than once over the past year or two, namely the nature of the preacher’s task, craft, and calling.
A couple of months ago I stumbled across a page ...
- Campus Ministry
This week we bring you a short essay on campus ministry by the Rev. Dr. Steven C. Kuhl, current president of the Crossings board. Steve wrote this essay as a statement of purpose in a recent application for a Campus Ministry position at a Lutheran-affiliated liberal arts college. As he explained by e-mail, he is ...
- Advent Orts (on Mandela; the Promise; Francis and Joy; Justice; Certitude)
Colleagues,
Orts. In other words, bits of this, pieces of that. (In case you missed it, see the intro to ThTheol 793.) The ones that constitute today’s helping were lying in the path here and there as I stumbled through the week. They somehow caught my attention. Perhaps they’ll catch yours. There’s a strong whiff of glorious ...
