Conference Papers

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner 841 W. Monroe St., #5PH Chicago, IL 60607 Jill.baumgaertner@wheaton.edu   Crossings for Bruce Modahl on his retirement Both irises, each fingerprint, our own. Each strand of DNA, ourself, whose bones descend from Adam’s dust, whose breath is …

Edward Schroeder I’ll give a brash answer to that question: “If Elert had never existed, neither would the Crossings Community. We wouldn’t be here in this room today.” And it starts with those three Concordia students in Erlangen 63 years …

Steven C. Kuhl   I. Introduction 1. The title of my talk, “The Holy Spirit in the Age of Pentecostalism,” is meant to say that the topic of the Holy Spirit is a big topic today for many Christians and …

By Gary W. Teske   I like the title you chose for this presentation, “The Holy Spirit and the Unholy Spirits.” I don’t want to sound like some semantics parsing politicians from years gone by, but it seems to me …

 Crossings International Conference on Law, Gospel and the Holy Spirit Dr. Amy C. Schifrin 1/26/16   15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, …

  Health Care for the Dying: Reflections/Examples of the Meaning and Challenge of Being a Christian and a Doctor Today   I want to begin by thanking you for the invitation to return to this gathering which I attended so …

By Toshihiro Takamura Pastor of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (Ph.D. student)   1. Introduction Presenting on preaching in the Japanese context is a challenging topic, for my experience is in reality merely that of …

Keynote Address for the Sixth International Crossings Conference at Belleville, Illinois, on 25 January 2016 by Jerome Burce   I. Gospel First: my own word of warm welcome to this Sixth International Conference of the Crossings Community, where we’ll continue …

 Rob Saler What it Looks Like When it Goes Right On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of seven French Trappist monks whom they had kidnapped from the monastery of Tibherine …

At the 2015 Crossings Seminar, Shrine of our Lady of the Snows, Belleville, Illinois by Jerome Burce, D.Min. + + +   There is gold; and then there’s fool’s gold. There is Gospel; and then there’s faux gospel. I wish …