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Co-missioners,On this Maundy Thursday we send you the ninth and final section of an essay by Robert W. Bertram entitled “How Our Sins Were Christ’s: A Study in Luther’s Galatians (1531).” We invite you to use this tomorrow as a …

Co-missioners,Here with a series of notes from our editor.Peace and Joy,The Crossings Community___________________________________________________________________Pre-Holy Week Notes and Comments, 2025by Jerome BurceAndrea di Bartolo (1360–1428) – Four SaintsFrom Wikimedia CommonsAn Easter Vigil DetailGeorge Heider, a former chair of Valparaiso University’s theology department, …

Co-missioners,On this third day of April we are ten days away from the beginning of Holy Week. With this in mind we send you a little gift we got from Steven Kuhl recently. It’s a piece he wrote thirty years …

Co-missioners,The Gospel text for this coming Sunday is that parable of parables so often and insufficiently refereed to “The Prodigal Son.”Last Sunday we sent you a Crossings-style study of this text. Timothy Hoyer wrote it. It calls for your attention.Today …

Co-missioners,This is the third and final installment of the gift we received from Marcus Kunz just before Ash Wednesday. Here he discusses the day’s Second Reading, 2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10. Here too, as with last week’s treatment of the day’s Gospel, …

Co-missioners,Two weeks ago we sent you a reflection on Ash Wednesday by Marcus Kunz. It was one third of a submission that included extended discussions of the Gospel and Epistle for the day, each framed by the assumptions laid out …

Co-missioners,Two weeks ago we sent you the summation of Crossings-style theology that Steve Albertin presented to our conference in January. Today we send an appendix to that presentation. Steve will introduce it himself.Peace and Joy,The Crossings Community___________________________________________________________________“Give Me a Break!”: …

Co-missioners,We were about to keep our promise to send you a companion piece to last week’s post when the item below dropped into our editor’s mailbox. One quick glance, and that first set of plans went out the window.What you’re …

Co-missioners, Some of you are likely wondering when Thursday Theology will do as the late Ed Schroeder used to when ThTheol was his baby. When times were fraught in church or state, Ed had no apparent compunction about speaking his …

Co-missioners, Last week our editor stumbled across a little piece he wrote two decades ago. It was intended as an appendix to an essay on justification that appeared in Gospel Blazes in the Dark, Crossings’ 2005 festschrift for Ed Schroeder. …