The Crossings Blog

Colleagues, Here follows the text of a presentation I made this morning (March 11) to the Lutheran Professional Church Workers Conference of St. Louis. Not everyone of the 30-plus people attending was pleased. So proceed with a grain of salt. Peace & Joy! Ed Schroeder Christian Calling: “The Care and Redemption of all that you have made” Near the ...

Colleagues, I’m coming to the end of the Winter Quarter in teaching 15 students about the Lutheran Confessions here in St. Louis. The course is an offering of the Lutheran School of Theology here in town, a ministry of the Metro St. Louis Coalition of ELCA congregations. For the upcoming Easter term the coalition asks for ...

Colleagues, In case you’ve not yet heard, there’s a new look, a new book, in Luther research. Here’s a review of it FYI. Peace and Joy!  Ed Schroeder Union With Christ. The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson, eds. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans. 1998. ix, 182, paper. . Every few years the world’s Luther scholars get together ...

In the February 1999 issue, “The Lutheran” ran a one paragraph article on page 42: “The Vatican, in a ‘Final Declaration’ statement, warned that the world is facing a crisis in faith provoked in part by the feminist doctrine that men and women are absolute equals. ‘Generally throughout the world, there is evidence of a ...

Colleagues, Last week I received the following letter. The writer, a Seminex alum, pastors a Lutheran congregation in New York state. If his question is not your cuppa tea, tune in next week. D.v., Robin Morgan will be on deck.Cheers! Ed Schroeder “Dear Ed,I need a little teaching now. The First Sunday in Lent is approaching and the ...

Colleagues, These comments, from good friends, continue the discussion of last week’s ThTh 34. Peace & Joy! Ed Schroeder A Lutheran pastor in mid-state Missouri writes:”Ed, you say: Let us acknowledge that in human sexuality, some folks are ‘wired different’ from heteros, and that God is the electrician doing the ...

Herewith a copy of a letter I wrote yesterday (Jan 27/99) to a bishop in my church, the ELCA. Hi! It’s been 2 months since you sent me that packet of 3 readings on homosexuality. You asked for “input.” So I’m long overdue in my response. For me it seems that getting older means getting slower. There ...

Dear folks, Here is my last piece about our trip to Palestine/Israel. Ed will be back next week with something completely different. Enjoy, Robin Theology of the Cross in the Holy Land This last piece about our trip to Palestine/Israel will finally give you the essence of what I experienced and how it has impacted my life. I have avoided ...

From Robin Morgan– Since last week Ed and I were, for the most part, less than complimentary about the “dead stones” of the Holy Land, this week I’d like to turn to one of the “Living Stones” of Palestine whom we met. As far as I can tell, if there is any temporal hope in that ...

Colleagues, We got back from our 2-week pilgrimage in Palestine and Israel–all 26 of us–just in time for Epiphany worship at home. Four “goldie oldie” Crossings people were in the bunch along with a kaleidoscope of relatives and friends and friends of friends–some Germans, mostly Americans. Age span: from a 20-year-old college Joe to two eighty-something ...