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By Jerome Burce

Written by Jerry Burce

  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    The ‘Peace-and-Justice’ Mantra. (An Ed Schroeder Rerun, Part 1)

    by Edward Schroeder February 24, 2022
    by Edward Schroeder February 24, 2022 0 comments 10 minute read

    Co-missioners, Lent is less than a week away. With that in mind we send you some homework for a Lenten assignment. It’s a rerun in two parts—half this week, half next—of an eighteen year old essay by Ed Schroeder that …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    How Can We Love?

    by Bethany February 17, 2022
    by Bethany February 17, 2022 0 comments 10 minute read

    Co-missioners, Three Sundays ago Pastor Chris Repp preached on 1 Corinthians 13 at Grace Lutheran, the congregation he serves in Champaign, Illinois. He shared his sermon with us a few days later. We couldn’t help but share it with you. …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    Merciful Accompaniment

    by Anna Ledbetter February 10, 2022
    by Anna Ledbetter February 10, 2022 0 comments 8 minute read

    Co-missioners, Our guest writer today is the Rev. Kirsten Worzala Dumke. A 2012 graduate of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Kirsten is a Board Certified Chaplain on the Palliative Care Team of the University of Wisconsin Hospital’s Carbone Cancer Center. She …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    Law, Gospel, and the Purple Church

    by Anna Ledbetter February 2, 2022
    by Anna Ledbetter February 2, 2022 0 comments 10 minute read

    Co-missioners, We hear from Paul Theiss this week on a topic as timely as timely gets. It begs for a lot of discussion—much more than it’s getting, as Paul points out. If you have reason to launch the conversation in …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    A Way to Pray the Lord’s Prayer

    by Anna Ledbetter January 27, 2022
    by Anna Ledbetter January 27, 2022 0 comments 5 minute read

    Co-missioners, Today we send you a coda to Marcus Felde’s marvelous essay on reading the Lord’s Prayer through the lenses of Law and Gospel. We got this from Matt Metevelis who quite by coincidence posted it on his personal Facebook …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    The Lord’s Prayer Part 2

    by Anna Ledbetter January 20, 2022
    by Anna Ledbetter January 20, 2022 0 comments 21 minute read

    Co-missioners, Last week was Part 1, a preamble of sorts. This week Marcus Felde rolls up his sleeves and gets to work on the task he set for himself in last week’s final paragraph— “Condensing the [Lord’s Prayer] into two …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    The Lord’s Prayer

    by Crossings January 13, 2022
    by Crossings January 13, 2022 0 comments 15 minute read

    Co-missioners, Our colleague, Marcus Felde, has emerged in recent years as a specialist in the theology of the Lord’s Prayer. He delivered a paper on the topic at the Crossings Conference of 2008. Seven years later he published an article …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    Through Perils Unknown: Thoughts of a Seasoned Pastor in a New Call

    by Anna Ledbetter January 5, 2022
    by Anna Ledbetter January 5, 2022 0 comments 6 minute read

    Co-missioners, Lori Cornell, longtime editor of our Crossings text studies, reflects today on her opening months of service as Lead Pastor of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Spokane, Washington. She took a call there last summer. We thank her for the …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    The Terrifying Promise of Love (A Response to Chris Neumann)

    by Crossings December 30, 2021
    by Crossings December 30, 2021 0 comments 10 minute read

    Co-missioners, We launched the recent Advent season with a startling reflection by Chris Neumann on everlasting life, a bedrock Christian promise that most all of us look forward to with delight. Chris found it terrifying. This brought a response from …

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  • BlogBy Jerome BurceThursday Theology

    Who Will Save the Neighborhood?

    by Crossings December 23, 2021
    by Crossings December 23, 2021 0 comments 7 minute read

    Co-missioners, On this final Thursday in the current Advent season, we send you a challenging reflection by Karen Clapp, a member of Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Illinois. It’s a sequel of sorts to a presentation she made at the …

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