- The Peace and Justice Mantra. Part II
Colleagues,
Herewith some stocking-stuffers I received in response to last week’s posting on the “Peace and Justice Mantra.”
Several responses were not happy with ThTh 339. Here’s one sample:Now let’s get this straight, Ed,
You seem to be saying in Thursday Theology #399 that any appeal to the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus in ...
- The “Peace & Justice” Mantra
Colleagues,
In last Sunday’s worship in our congregation we were encouraged to join Jesus in ...
- The Futures Market for Advent
Colleagues,
I pulled two things out of the barrel for today’s posting. It’s Advent stuff that we’ve used locally. Marie’s Google search on the Crossings web site says they’ve never been passed on to you via the listserve. So they come to you now.Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
The Futures Market for Advent
Church vocabulary in the (Latin) Middle ...
- Repentance in America, What Might it Look Like?
Colleagues,
The same U.S. President Lincoln who in 1863 authorized the last Thursday in November as a national Thanksgiving Day also signed the following proclamation earlier in that very same year. How about that? Right in the hellish horror of the Civil War, national repentance and national thanksgiving go together. Maybe even in that very order–Mea ...
- Remembering Werner Elert – Fiftieth Annversary of his Death
Colleagues,
Sunday, November 21, 2004, is the 50th anniversary of the death of Werner Elert, Professor of Systematic Theology and History of Dogma at the Unviersity of Erlangen in Germany. In the year before he died three seminarians from Concordia (St. Louis) were in his classes at Erlangen–Bob Schultz, Dick Baepler and I. Not too many ...
- Luther’s Birthday and American Politics
Colleagues,
Something else was in the hopper for posting today to commemorate Martin Luther’s 521st birthday yesterday and his baptism a day later on November 11, the day of St. Martin of Tours. That’s why his given name is Martin. Had he been born/baptized one day later, we’d be remembering Lebuin Luther or even Nilus Luther, ...
- Eulogy Plus Gospel – A Case Study: David Truemper, R.I.P.
Colleagues,
Marie and I just got off the plane at noon today, returning from Dave Truemper’s funeral yesterday at Valparaiso University in Indiana. We brought along Fred Niedner’s sermon to pass on to you for today’s ThTh posting. Fred does a stellar Gospel-crossing of David’s life: the Gospel trumping Truemper’s cancer, even though it seemed that ...
- Reflections for Reformation Day
Colleagues,
The number on this posting is 333. For 333 weeks in a row ThTh has gone into cyberspace–more or less regularly. Are there any of you out there who were there when ThTh #1 was posted? 333 is one-third of the way to 1,000. Also half-way to the number of The Beast in the Book ...
- Eulogies at Christian Funerals–Some Second Opinions
Colleagues,
Last week’s posting about eulogies from Bill Moorhead elicited responses from some of you. Here are six of the “second opinions” I received.Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
From Three Women on the Listserve.
Deaconess Hospital Chaplain in CaliforniaI can’t keep silent about the “Eulogies” issue. Of course, the Word must be among us as we travel ...
- How to Give a Eulogy
Colleagues,
It’s late Wednesday evening. We’ve just watched the third debate between the U.S.A. presidential contenders. Though funereal thoughts come to mind, the word “eulogy” does not. Threnody and elegy seem more appropriate. Perhaps Alan Paton’s “Cry, The Beloved Country.”But rescuing me (and you) from a jeremiad for this week’s ThTh posting is a guest essay ...
