By Jerome Burce

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, Our editor sends three notes today, two brief, one longer. Peace and Joy, The Crossings Community __________________________________________________________________ Assorted Notes: Cruciger’s Hymn Revisited, A Preaching Course, A Birthday by Jerome Burce 1. Cruciger’s Hymn Revisited I got an altogether unexpected …

Co-missioners, This week’s offering comes from our editor. Peace and Joy, The Crossings Community __________________________________________________________________ “Kill Me, Jesus!” Notes on a Hymn and the Woman who Wrote It by  Jerome Burce I met Elisabeth Cruciger last week. I want you …

Co-missioners, We have two items for you this week. The first, by Matt Metevelis, is a year-and-a-half old. We found it on his Facebook page at the end of July in 2021. Our thanks for his permission to share it …

Co-missioners, He has done it before. He does it again. Our editor passes along some lingering thoughts as a major season of the church year draws to a close. A dollop of Luther comes with it. A bit of Bach …

Co-missioners, Thursday Theology is devoted to “making full use of Christ’s benefits.” Of course, we have use of those benefits because of Christ’s death and resurrection. In today’s post, Fred Niedner offers a rich repast of his close reading of …

Co-missioners, This week the clear prose and sharp insights of Lori Cornell once again give Thursday Theology readers much to ponder. In this instance Lori reviews an important book that recently became available in paperback: Jesus and John Wayne, by …

  Co-missioners, This week we bring you Part 2 of Kurt Hendel’s essay on Luther and the Jews. As he laid out in Part 1 last week, Kurt’s goal here is “to summarize Luther’s attitude toward and comments about the …