Thursday Theology

Co-missioners, We’re about to jar you with a post that will sound distinctly un-Adventish. Is not this brief and blessed season about beginnings? A new church year? An old promise still lurking just past the horizon, and who can say…

December 5, 2024 Co-missioners, The Crossings Table Talk session this past October featured a lively discussion about Lutheran worship in the classic liturgical style. Today Marcus Felde explores the origins and theological rationale of “contemporary” worship, as it’s frequently called.…

Co-missioners, Today we send along—what else?—a Thanksgiving Day reflection. It was first thought out eleven years ago when Barack Obama was president of the United States. Its pertinence to the waning weeks of 2024 is eerily obvious, we think. God…

November 21, 2024 Co-missioners, Our editor having spent last week more or less underwater, we favor you today with another reprint. Emphasis, by the way, on the word “favor” –such is the item we’re reprinting. It appeared in Thursday Theology…

Co-missioners, In recent months, our Crossings Table Talk series has featured some especially lively theological conversations. The Table Talk of October 2024 was no exception. Our main speaker was the Rev. Amandus (Mandy) Derr, who retired in 2020 from a…

Co-missioners, Once again we send you an item a few days late—late, that is, if you happen to be a preacher who was looking for a fresh take on the Gospel text appointed for this past Sunday. Then again, not…

Co-missioners, We have two items for you on this 507th anniversary of Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses. Our editor stumbled across them recently and couldn’t help but pass them along. Peace and Joy,The Crossings Community __________________________________________________________________ 1. A Deep…

Co-missioners, Today we send you a homiletical reflection on one of the issues at hand as another bitter election bears down on us in the U.S.  Steve Albertin wrote this. It’s an edited rerun of a sermon he preached at…

Co-missioners, Our editor points you this week to an item published elsewhere that he urges you to read. Peace and Joy,The Crossings Community __________________________________________________________________ What’s Driving America’s Christian Nationalism?by Jerome Burce I’ve caught some muttering in recent months about how…

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…