- Is There a Hole in the Net of the “Word Alone Network?”
Colleagues,
Is there a hole in the net of the “Word Alone Network?” Seems so to me. Evidence for that are the front and back pages of the recent “Network News” of May-June 2004. Back page is WAN’s Mission Statement; front page is WAN’s April convention resolution on “sexual life.”The texts on these two pages are ...
- Faith in EXTREME Daily Life
In Thursday Theology #310 I invited you to send in a slice of life for us to “cross” as Ed and I had done with a slice of Faith Place life. One person took us up on that offer, Deaconess Patty Silva. Here’s her slice of life and my response.Robin Morgan
Okay, Robin and Ed—what about ...
- Closure on Singapore–Well, Not Quite
Colleagues,
This week’s posting is the report Marie and I recently sent to the Division for Global Mission of the ELCA on our work in Singapore in March, April, May this year. We served under the “Global Mission Volunteers” program of the DGM. A number of you on the Crossings listserve also “volunteered” to help pay ...
- Two Conflicting Texts on the Fourth of July
Colleagues,Two contradictory texts got hyped in public in the USA on the Fourth of July. I noticed that out loud to Marie and she said: “Oh, Oh, I see a Curmudgeon Column coming for this week’s Thursday Theology.” Well, maybe.
America’s Independence Day was on Sunday this year. Of the two “public” texts that got hyped ...
- Singapore Postscript II — Vietnam and Myanmar (once Burma)
Colleagues,
Why try to re-invent the wheel? Marie keeps a journal on all our mission volunteer junkets. Here’s a scaled-down version of her 15 pages on our last two weeks in SE Asia, our visits to Vietnam and Myanmar. For both countries former students, all now pastors, had invited us to come and visit so they ...
- Singapore Postscript I
Colleagues,We’ve been back home for six days. Jet-lag’s almost gone. Seems longer this time coping with the eleven-time-zones shift from Singapore to St. Louis. We must be getting old.
Re-entry to the United States is a jolt–even for life-long citizens like Marie and me, now seventy-somethings, and after only 4 months away. It’s not just the ...
- Theology of the Cross. A Singapore Congregational Presentation
Colleagues:
Here’s an item from our three months in Singapore.Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
THE CROSS FOR THE MODERN WORLD
A Presentation at Queenstown Lutheran Church in Singapore
March 24, 2004
INTRODUCTION
Is the Cross “old” and the world “modern?” Or is it just the opposite? Depends on what you think “Cross” means, and what “modern” means. St Paul claimed that the ...
- The Dark Side of Humanity – a Lutheran Take, a Pastoral Caution and Counsel
The following article is written by Paul Goetting. It was written originally for this July edition of THE LUTHERAN, but a time dead-line prevented it from being printed. Instead, it is appearing on THE LUTHERAN’s Web Site. Dave Miller, THE LUTHERAN editor, has granted permission that it be posted here also.Ed Schroeder and Paul have ...
- What about Jesus’ Miracles?
Colleagues,
Two summers ago we were back in Lithuania where we’d been as ELCA Global Misison Volunteers in 1997. On the morning of our departure to head back home, a dear Russian friend came to say farewell. But before he got that far he said: “I want to be baptized.” After the shock wore off, we ...
- The “So What” Factor
So what? is a question I’ve asked myself many times in the last months as I’ve tried to figure out how to minister from law/gospel theology in a context that doesn’t look anything like a traditional Lutheran congregation (a new city ministry, Faith Place, in the Fox Park neighborhood of St. Louis). Is it really ...
