Colleagues, Dean Lueking’s face is on my graduation class photo (Concordia Seminary, 1954). We’ve continued to be “joined at the hip” ever since. Paul Ananth Tambyah came into Marie’s and my life in 2004 when the Evangelical Church in America …
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Colleagues, For this week’s ThTh post Dr. Peter Keyel offers a Science-and-Religion book review. Newly elected to the Crossings board, Peter is a layman who works in immunology and was raised in the ELCA. Just a few weeks ago he …
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Colleagues, This past semester I was asked to sit in for one session on a graduate seminar at St. Louis University where the topic was: The Church’s Response–both Catholic and Protestant–to Hitler. The professor, Mark Ruff, is a rising star …
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Colleagues, This week’s Thursday Theologian is Pastor Stephen C. Krueger, Seminex grad, LCMS rostered pastor, now serving as hospice chaplain in Florida. Steve’s world of daily work is LifePath Hospice and Palliative Care, the largest not-for-profit hospice program in the …
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BlogReviews
Review of John H. Tietjen’s The Gospel According to Jesus. (St. Louis: Creative Communications for the Parish, 2006), 83 pp.
by CrossingsTo write a first-person account of the life of Jesus, when that voice is Jesus’ own, is a daunting task, rarely undertaken. Even efforts, which have presumed to come close, such as Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor or Kazantzakis’ Last Temptation of Christ or The Greek …
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Carl E. Braaten, Principles of Lutheran Theology, Second Edition (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) A few weeks ago, Ed Schroeder handed me his own copy of Carl Braaten’s Principles of Lutheran Theology (Second Edition) and asked whether I might append a …
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Colleagues, Don Schedler is on the same graduation class picture as I am – “Concordia Seminary – Class of1954.” In the 53 years since then he’s been a Lutheran pastor (South Dakota, Kansas and Indiana), has gotten a Ph.D. (Counseling …
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Book review: “Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today”
by CrossingsColleagues, Today’s posting is a book review, the work of William L. Yancey, pastor at Bethel Lutheran Church in University City (suburban St. Louis), Missouri. Our family has been part of the Bethel congregation for 36 years. That means that …
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The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology by Niels Henrik Gregersen (Editor), Bo Holm (Editor), Ted Peters (Editor) Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers (December 2004) Language: English ISBN: 0800636864 Review by Frederick Niedner, Valparaiso University Thursday …
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Colleagues, This week’s posting offers readers Wayne Holst’s review of Ronald K. Rittgers’ case study on Confession and Absolution in Lutheran theology and church life in the earliest days of the Reformation. The identities of author and reviewer are in …
