- Thursday Theology: A Baptismal Reflection on Psalm 90
Co-missioners,
Today’s quotable quote: “The Message makes the messenger.” You’ll find it in this timely reflection by one of last week’s authors, our interim text-study editor, Mike Hoy.
Peace and Joy,
The Crossings Community
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A Baptismal Reflection on Psalm 90
by Michael Hoy
My brother and his spouse ordered a special gift for my birthday in 2022. Knowing my liking of ...
- Thursday Theology: Seminex Recollections by Michael Hoy and Amandus Derr
Co-missioners,
Five Thursdays ago we announced an intention to devote some of our posts this year to the story of Seminex and its implications for the Church’s mission in 2024. The present work of Crossings is certainly rooted in that story, as we pointed out in our post of January 18.
A few days after that post ...
- Thursday Theology: “Sleep Tight!” A Homily for Evening Prayer
Co-missioners,
Sermons have long been featured in Thursday Theology. Even so, we try as a rule not to send you two of them in a row. Today this rule gets broken. For good reason, we think.
Chances are that our last two posts left some of you grieving for the state of the church. Written by Matt ...
- Thursday Theology: “The Abiding Promise”: A Last Sermon at the Closing of a Congregation
Co-missioners,
Last week we sent you Matt Metevelis’ thoughts in the days before the last worship service at the congregation he’d been serving in Las Vegas. The service was held on Reformation Sunday, October 29, 2023. Matt preached. He sent us his manuscript. We share it with you here.
In doing this, we invite prayers for the ...
- Thursday Theology: A Pastor’s Lamentation
Co-missioners,
Today’s post is intended as something of a witness to everyone who loves the church in these years of its American decline. Our writer is Matt Metevelis. We’ll hear from him again next week. If you follow Thursday Theology, you’ll have encountered him a couple of times last year. He’s also one of the newer ...
- Thursday Theology: The Crossings-Seminex Connection
Co-missioners,
Today’s post is largely a reprint of an item buried in the corner of our Crossings website where old newsletters get lodged. The date on this one is Advent, 2006. It was published a month or two before our first-ever Crossings conference and devotes some space to touting the event. It was an ambitious conference, ...
- Thursday Theology: Remembering Seminex in 2024. An Introduction
Co-missioners,
We are nine days shy of the fiftieth anniversary of a momentous event in the recent history of U.S. Lutheranism—or even, one might argue, of American Christianity.
The year was 1974. On the evening of January 20, bells began tolling on the campus of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, the premier theological institution of the Lutheran Church—Missouri ...
- Thursday Theology: Eleventh Day Observations
Co-missioners,
Once again our editor weighs in.
Peace and Joy,
The Crossings Community
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Eleventh Day Observations
by Jerome Burce
Here with a few reflections on this Eleventh Day of Christmas, one eye looking back at things completed and the other forward to matters pending—
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Well, They Tried…
“The church was packed, the music grand, the preaching so very disappointing.” Thus the ...
- Thursday Theology: Pre-Christmas Notes
Co-missioners,
With three days left before Christmas dawns, we send another batch of observations from our editor. Our thanks to God for all who read this, and for everyone who makes our work at Crossings possible.
And a note that Crossings will not send out a Thursday Theology next week as the editor and team will be ...
- Thursday Theology: Ed Schroeder on “The Futures Market for Advent”
Co-missioners,
Today you’re getting a piece by the late Ed Schroeder that hasn’t been generally available until now. You won’t find it in our library. We understand that it surfaced from the files of the Rev. Ron Neustadt, one of Ed’s dear friends. Three days ago it landed in our editor’s lap. He promptly dropped what ...