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Co-missioners, This week’s post is a little late. It’s personal too, as you’ll see. It also touches a little on a topic that’s come up in a number of conversations I’ve had over the past month. More on this next …

Co-missioners, Today Steve Kuhl continues his response to Ron Roschke on the topic of how the Scriptures were heard and listened to in the classrooms of Seminex a half-century ago. Simmering in the background is Steve’s reaction to Ron’s suggestion—see …

Co-missioners, Last April we sent you a two-part essay by Ron Roschke on the interpretive tools that shaped the theology of Christ Seminary—Seminex. One of these tools was the Historical Critical Method used by Seminex’s biblical scholars. The other was …

Co-missioners,With school resuming this month in the northern hemisphere, Carol Braun explores a pressing issue that she and teachers around the world are suddenly wrestling with these days. Carol, of course, approaches this from her Crossings perspective, inviting all of us …

Co-missioners,Steve Albertin, a longtime member of the Crossings Board of Directors and a co-host of our monthly Table Talk series, has just completed an assignment as interim pastor at King of Glory Lutheran Church in Carmel, Indiana. This was the …

Co-missioners, We have two items for you this week. The first is another response to our invitation of July 25 to send in thoughts about “the mess we are in.” The second is a quick reflection on the Gospel reading …

Co-missioners, The writer scheduled for today begged off at the last minute, so our editor rummaged in his personal storehouse and dug up this. It’s most of a sermon he preached three years ago when the covid pandemic was still …

Co-missioners, One of us was poking around recently in a well-organized box of the late Ed Schroeder’s files. From it she extracted the sermon we send you today. Ed preached it on August 29, 2010, at St. Mark Lutheran Church …

Co-missioners, Last month we started sharing brief reflections about the political and cultural state of the U.S. this summer as seen through the lenses of Crossings-style theology. We posted two sets of these reflections on consecutive Thursdays. Then came a …

Co-missioners, We meant it last week when we launched a community discussion of America’s current political and cultural situation as seen through the confessional lenses we use at Crossings. Today we send you two ice-breaking contributions to the conversation. One …