- Grounding One’s Theology in the Gospel, when the issue is Homosexuality – Part 2
Colleagues,
I do so wish that we could move to some other topics. Some of you (many of you?) may well wish the same. And there are other topics for ThTh postings. E.g., Marie and I have been here in New Haven, Connecticut at the Overseas Ministries Study Center for three weeks and in the course ...
- Grounding One’s Theology in the Gospel, When the Issue is Homosexuality
Colleagues,My swan song for 2001 – ThTh 185 posted Dec. 27 – carried this retrospective paragraph:
“A number of you ThTh readers I have disappointed by not responding to your emails this past year. I’m thinking right now of one very long and intense and thoughtful rejoinder from a dear Seminex student to the homosexual postings. ...
- Hildegard of Bingen by Robin Morgan
This past semester I wrote a paper about Hildegard of Bingen for a seminar I participated in on Medieval Mystics. A mystic, by definition, is one who experiences union with God and writes/teaches other how to achieve this same experience. Though Hildegard cannot technically be classified as a mystic since she wrote to expound on ...
- Mission and Tradition
I feel like I’ve spent the last few months in a personal war with “Lutheran Lifestyle”. This fall I’ve been interim pastor at a congregation whose pastor of 22 years passed away suddenly last summer. They are a small group of mostly elderly folks who had been inching their way toward looking at their collective ...
- Year’s End Summary: the Hassle about the Gospel
Colleagues,First off two notices. If they were printed in the Classified Ads, they’d be under PERSONALS:
1. On this very day, December 27, 2001, God willing, Marie and I will start driving from St. Louis to New Haven, Connecticut for a spring-semester stint at a new workplace. I’m to serve as Senior Mission Scholar at the ...
- Even So, Lord Jesus, Come Quickly
Colleagues,Last year’s Christmas posting “Thoughts of a Manger” was the poem-prayer of my sister-in-law Linda Schroeder composed from the hospital bed where a hit-and-run driver had put her with a shattered leg and major internal injuries on Advent I. Now a year later Linda is still on crutches. The leg bones did not ...
- Sermons Empty of Gospel : Part 3
Colleagues,
For this week’s posting, ThTh 183, two additional responses to the topic.Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
From Robert A. Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology Waterloo Lutheran Seminary/Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I found the last two editions of ThTh very interesting, in part because this term our homiletics prof and I have been conducting an experiment in ...
- Sermons Empty of Gospel: Part 2
Colleagues,
Here are some responses to Dave Endorf’s letter of last week (ThTh 181) about sermons with no gospel in them. Dave’s letter, you may remember, was addressed to Jerry Burce, author of PROCLAIMING THE SCANDAL. We used Jerry’s book in our course on preaching this fall at the Lutheran School of Theology here in St. ...
- Sermons Empty of Gospel
Colleagues,
The Lutheran School of Theology here in St. Louis offered a 10-week course this fall quarter titled: “Preaching the Gospel.” Yours truly was the instructor. For 30 class hours fourteen of us wrestled with the topic, including such stuff as “how to tell when gospel is there and when it isn’t.” One of our ...
- Responses to ThTh #179 “Repentance and Apocalypse Now”
Colleagues,
Three items of thankfulness on this USA Thanksgiving Day.
Money matters. Our Crossings Community thanks go to those of you who sent gifts when I mentioned our need a few weeks ago. There are still 99% of you on the listserve who haven’t (yet). These postings are free, as you ...
