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Thursday Theology: A Promising Reading of Ash Wednesday’s Gospel
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Thursday Theology: A Sample “Crossings Sermon”
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Thursday Theology: Framing Ash Wednesday with the Cross of Ashes
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Thursday Theology: A Quick Introduction to “Crossings Theology”
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Thursday Theology: Christ and the Fate Worse than Death
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Thursday Theology: The Conference Homily (on Luke 4:16ff.)
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Thursday Theology: A Post-Conference Effusion
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Thursday Theology: A Pastor’s Letter to his Small, Gritty Congregation
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Thursday Theology: Conference Updates and Recollections, with some Meat to Chew On
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Thursday Theology: A Review of the New Bonhoeffer Movie
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Thursday Theology: Late Christmas Observations
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Thursday Theology: “God’s Christmas Break”: (A Homiletical Supplement, Crossings-Style)
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Thursday Theology: Faithful Ending(s), Part Two
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Thursday Theology: Faithful Ending(s), Part One
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Thursday Theology: What Lies Beneath “Praise & Worship”?
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Thursday Theology: A Timely Reason for Thanksgiving
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Thursday Theology: Werner Elert on Biblical Authority and Hermeneutics
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Thursday Theology: Thoughts On Liturgy from Last Month’s Table Talk
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Thursday Theology: An Angle on the Raising of Lazarus as God’s Good Word for Us Today
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Thursday Theology: A Deep Read and a Quick Poke for Reformation Day
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Thursday Theology: On Mixing Religion and Politics
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Thursday Theology: What’s Driving America’s Christian Nationalism
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Newsletter - Fall 2024 - Vol 155
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Thursday Theology: Dust We Are, and Yet…
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Thursday Theology: On “Seminex Hermeneutics”: A Response to Ron Roschke (Part Two)
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Thursday Theology: On “Seminex Hermeneutics”: A Response to Ron Roschke (Part One)
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Thursday Theology: On Patches, Wineskins, and Online Teaching in the Age of Generative AI
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Table Talk - September 2024
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Thursday Theology: The Good Samaritan Parable as Good News
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 15 Am I REALLY a Christian?
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 14 Do I have to get baptized or go to church?
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 13 Were Adam & Eve Real People?
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 12 Does Prayer Work?
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Thursday Theology: On the Mess and on Mark: A Little of Each
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Thursday Theology: “Living Jesus-Smart.” A Re-cycled Homily
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Thursday Theology: Ed Schroeder on Pastoral Ministry
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Thursday Theology: More Thoughts on the Mess We Are In (Set Three of ???)
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Thursday Theology: Thoughts on the Mess We Are In (Set Two of ???)
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Thursday Theology: Thoughts on the Mess We Are In (Set One of ???)
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Table Talk July 2024
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Thursday Theology: Why Sunday School in 2024?
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Thursday Theology: On the Persistence of Bad Lutheran Preaching (A Golden-Oldie Rerun)
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Thursday Theology: A Prayer for Today
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Thursday Theology: The Six Steps of the Augsburg Confession
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Table Talk - June 2024
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Thursday Theology: More about Translation
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Thursday Theology: Everyday Translations
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 11 What Makes the Christian Religion the right one?
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Thursday Theology: “Witnessing Christ”: Fred Niedner on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Seminex (Part Two)
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Thursday Theology: “Witnessing Christ”: Fred Niedner on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Seminex (Part One)
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Table Talk May 2024
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Thursday Theology: A Must-Hear “Sermon-Poem” on John 17:6-19
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Thursday Theology: On the Lively Use of the Gospel: A Plea for Renewed Discussion
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Thursday Theology: Christ for the Preachers (A Homily)
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Thursday Theology: “Crossings, Quo Vadis?”
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Seminex Remembered
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Thursday Theology: The Other Focus and Unfinished Business: A Project for Seminex-style Theology in 2024 and Beyond (Part Two)
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Thursday Theology: The Other Focus and Unfinished Business: A Project for Seminex-style Theology in 2024 and Beyond (Part One)
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Thursday Theology: How Expansive is the Easter Promise?
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Thursday Theology: Robert Bertram’s “The Lively Use of the Risen Lord”
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Thursday Theology: The Awful Tree and the Composting God: Holy Week Reflections
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Thursday Theology: More Reflections on Seminex
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Thursday Theology: Resources for Holy Week Preaching and Listening
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Thursday Theology: A Cancer Patient’s Sermon on John 12:20-33
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Thursday Theology: Reflections on “Faith” and on “Following Jesus”
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Thursday Theology: A Baptismal Reflection on Psalm 90
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Thursday Theology: Seminex Recollections by Michael Hoy and Amandus Derr
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Thursday Theology: “Sleep Tight!” A Homily for Evening Prayer
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Thursday Theology: “The Abiding Promise”: A Last Sermon at the Closing of a Congregation
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Thursday Theology: A Pastor’s Lamentation
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Thursday Theology: The Crossings-Seminex Connection
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Thursday Theology: Remembering Seminex in 2024. An Introduction
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Thursday Theology: Eleventh Day Observations
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Richard Schademann
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Jerri Carlin
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Tim Bertram
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Brad Haugen
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Jordan Stone
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Mary Hinkle Shore
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Chris Repp
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Ella and Louis Moehlman
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Nathan Hall
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Thursday Theology: Pre-Christmas Notes
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Thursday Theology: Ed Schroeder on “The Futures Market for Advent”
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Newsletter - Fall 2023 - Vol 151
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Thursday Theology: In Thanksgiving for Art Simon
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Thursday Theology: In-Between-Time Thoughts about Christ as King
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Thursday Theology: “The Ultimate Turkey” and other Thanksgiving Reflections
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Thursday Theology: On Reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Part 2
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Thursday Theology: On Reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans. A Review of Romans Disarmed
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Thursday Theology: A Review of Russell Moore’s Losing our Religion
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Thursday Theology: Responding to a Voice from Israel
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Thursday Theology: Once More on Matthew’s “Wedding Banquet” Parable
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Thursday Theology: Fred Niedner on Preaching that Actually Works (Part 2)
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Thursday Theology: Fred Niedner on Preaching that Actually Works (Part 1)
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Six of Six)
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Five of Six)
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Four of Six)
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Crossings 2023 Film Series: Carol Braun
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Three of Six)
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Two of Six)
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A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part One of Six)
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A Refreshing Dose of Public Honesty
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A Bit of Gospel, A Bit of Law, A Bit of Astonishment. An Announcement Too
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Lowdown Love: A Sermon on Matthew 15:10-28
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Johann Agricola’s Catechism for Girls
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Teach Us to Pray
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Robert Bertram on “The Twice-Free Student—or Citizen.” (Part Two)
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Robert Bertram on “The Twice-Free Student—or Citizen.” (Part One)
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On the Fear and Love of God
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St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 3)
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St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 2)
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St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 1)
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“From Three to Four, Not Before!”
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“Unity after Uvalde?” A Year-Old Sermon on John 17:20-26
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Ten “Promising” Words? An Interchange (Part 2)
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Ten “Promising” Words? An Interchange (Part 1)
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On Checking the Blind Spot (A Sermon)
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God’s Ten Promising Words (Part 2)
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God’s Ten Promising Words (Part 1)
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A Maundy Thursday Meditation
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Depth in the Faith
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Believing Into….
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Luther on the Sound of the Wind (John 3)
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Some Thoughts on Christian Preaching
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Glowing Jesus, Real Sin
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Can I Get a Witness? Here I Stand
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Law and Gospel in Spiritual Care
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Cruciger’s Hymn Revisited, A Preaching Course, A Birthday
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The Net Made Flesh (A Not-To-Miss Rerun)
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“Kill Me, Jesus!” Notes on a Hymn and the Woman who Wrote It
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On Ministry and Epiphany
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Some Christmas Leftovers
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A Scholar’s Update
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A Christmas Gift of Blessed Remembering (Daniel Erlander)
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Announcing Edmund Schlink’s "Ecumenical Dogmatics"
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A Review of David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions
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The Continuing Witness of Richard R. Caemmerer, Sr.
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God's Call: Forgiveness, Freedom, and Vocation
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Pressing Reminders from Ed Schroeder (Part 2)
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Pressing Reminders from Ed Schroeder (Part 1)
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On Extracting Good News from a Thankless Text. An Example
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Reflections on the ELCA’s 2022 Churchwide Assembly
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A Review of David Zahl’s Low Anthropology
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In Praise of Thanks
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Extra Nos: An Ordination Sermon
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Reflections on the Queen’s Funeral
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On Performative Utterances
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All Leadership Is Service, All Service Is Leadership
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Will I Hear the Gospel this Fall?
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From Finland: Gospel-driven Joy as a Mission Strategy
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On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 3 of 3)
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On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 2 of 3)
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On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 1 of 3)
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What Preachers are For
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The Neighborhood of Jesus (A Homily on Luke 10:25-37)
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How Bach Set the Gospel to Music (A Book Review)
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Jesus Pressing His Luck (A Layperson’s Sermon on John 17)
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Raising Christian Children in a Secular World
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A Time for American Repentance (Part 2)
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A Time for American Repentance (Part 1)
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The Ten Commandments as a Resource for Daily Life
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Becoming Christ's Body in the World
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A Review of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne
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Luther's Infamous "On the Jews." An Assessment (Part 2)
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Luther's Infamous "On the Jews." An Assessment (Part 1)
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As War Rages in Ukraine: Fresh Thoughts on Forgiveness, Peacemaking, Love
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Law/Gospel and the Life of the Mind
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"Reconciled—So Let’s Pray!” A Reflection on Luke 11:5-13
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Easter at Ground Level—A Meditation on Baptism
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The Good News of Jesus Our Judge (An Easter Sermon)
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Devotion to Jesus? Service to the Poor? An Interpretation of John 12:1-8
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Perilous Children: Notes from the Lutheran/Jewish/Evangelical Frontier
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A Review of Robert Jenson’s A Theology in Outline
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Beware the Vultures! A Sermon on Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
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Getting to Step Six (A Lenten Devotion)
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The ‘Peace-and-Justice’ Mantra. (An Ed Schroeder Rerun, Part 2)
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The ‘Peace-and-Justice’ Mantra. (An Ed Schroeder Rerun, Part 1)
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How Can We Love?
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Merciful Accompaniment
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Law, Gospel, and the Purple Church
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A Way to Pray the Lord's Prayer
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The Lord’s Prayer Part 2
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The Lord’s Prayer
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Through Perils Unknown: Thoughts of a Seasoned Pastor in a New Call
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The Terrifying Promise of Love (A Response to Chris Neumann)
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Who Will Save the Neighborhood?
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“The Jesus Vaccine.” A Year-Old Christmas Sermon
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Christ’s Two Advents
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When the Ultimate Promise is Terrifying
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Facing the Sin of Racism
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“What If?” as a Tool for Law/Gospel Discernment
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Replaying A Swan Song
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A Review of Richard Lischer’s The End of Words
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Remembering Carl F. Schalk—Composer, Teacher, Friend
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Luke's Gospel Through a Systematician’s Lens
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Marriage and the Hard Heart
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Justification is Not the Gospel?
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What the Pandemic is Teaching Me about Church
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Finding Gospel in Mark’s Gospel
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Getting Sermons to Stick
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From Prophecy to Promise
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Lust, Trust, and Scrambled Eggs
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Good News for the Privileged
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A New Chapter
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In the Throes of John 6
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A Quick Thought, A Quick Announcement
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Christ and the Human Condition, 2021
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A Parent's Wedding-Day Dilemma
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Genuine Freedom
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Preaching the Prognosis
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Revisiting Patriotism
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Why is God "Jealous," Etc.
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On Making Decisions in Light of the Gospel
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God Suffers?
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The Sound of the Spirit: A Reflection on the Trinity
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Easter Leftovers 2021
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On Being Saved and Bearing Fruit
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Ed Schroeder on our Lord’s Ascension
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The Easter Life in Practice (An Example)
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A New "Commandment"?
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Better Medicine
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Why is the Gospel not Preached? A Note to a Friend
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How the Old Age Works (A Book Review)
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The Good News in the “Short Ending” of Mark’s Gospel
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Reading and Reflection for Holy Week
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Addressing White Supremacy in the Church
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Caught to be Catchers
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God-Fearing, God-Praising: A Crossings-style Devotion
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Mission in the Gospel of Mark
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The Benefits of Christ for a Fractured America (Initial Thoughts)
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In the Aftermath of the Riot: Four “I” Words and a Word of Hope
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Angela Denker's "Red State Christians." A Review
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A Sermon in the Wake of the Capitol Riot
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First Thoughts on the Sack of the Capitol
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On Repentance and New Year's Resolutions
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A Letter from Coronavirus Prison
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The Great Gift Exchange
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The Christmas Verdict
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What Heaven Is
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How I Finally Got Advent
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Mission is Essential!
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A Timely Sermon on Religion and Politics
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The Real Surprise of Matthew 25
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The Folk Religion of God Bless America, FROGBA Revisited
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More from "The Lion and the Lamb"
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Reformation-tide Spin on Law and Gospel (1)
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Plain(s) Theology for a Pandemic Problem
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Preach the Gospel! It's What We Need!
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Esau McCaulley's Reading While Black. A Review
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Offensiveness: Today's Gospel Imperative. Its Gift Too.
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Antiracism as the Way of the Cross
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N.T. Wright's "God and the Pandemic." A Review
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 6
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Heavenly Places? That's You
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The Jesus Mask
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 5
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Ed Schroeder on Thankfulness
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The Lord's Prayer as a Prayer for Mission
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 4
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Mask or No Mask? Crossing Elisha and Dr. Fauci
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Best Practices for the Post-Pandemic Church
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 3
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The Peril and Promise of Holy Love
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Ed Schroeder on Faith and Risk
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 2
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Crossing Our American Moment through Psalm 13
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Glimpses of Easter: The Eucharist as a Visual Gift
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God's Peace/God's Justice: Episode 1
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Law or Gospel? A Follow-up to the Post of June 11
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George Floyd as a Summons to Lutheran Repentance
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 10: Fake Gospel or Real Gospel?
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 9: Why do bad things happen to good people?
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Pentecost as God's Answer to the Mess We are In
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 8: Will Everyone be Saved?
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How a Church Can Dare to Die--or Live
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Ascended Indeed. Alleluia!
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 7: Where have you seen God in your life this week?
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Covid-19 and the Judgment of God
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 6: What Is Christian Freedom?
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On Earth As in Heaven
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Crossings Donor Support
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"And There's No Other God." A Reprise for Today
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 5: Do You have Yahbut’s Disease?
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 4: The Sweet Swap!
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Hope to Cope
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"No Going Back." An Easter Sermon
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Who's On Trial Here?
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Hope and Meaning as the Virus Swirls
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 3: What is the Crossings Method?
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Hope and Meaning as the Virus Swirls
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Repentance and Faith for Pandemic Days
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Believing is Seeing
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 2: What is Law and Gospel?
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Promise vs. Panic: Using Christ When COVID-19 Lurks
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FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING: Chapter 1: What is Crossings?
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Learning to Beg
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Crossings Film Series: Liv Larson
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Mixed Observations, All Brief
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Crossings Film Series: Stacie Dichsen
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A Valentine's Gift for Gloomy Lutherans
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Whose Trial?
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Crossings Film Series: Amber Kalina
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The Homiletical Bind: Preaching Law and Gospel in the Congregation
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Gospel Blazes in the Dark
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More Scraps on the Politics of Epiphany
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The Politics of Epiphany
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Crossings Film Series: Bruce Modahl
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Mission in St. Matthew
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Chad Bird on the Baptism of Jesus
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Crossings Film Series: Emmy Kegler
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Sheep, Goats—and Gospel? A New Year’s Homily
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A Thought for Christmas and a Conference Invitation
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Crossings Film Series: Nathan Hall
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The Original “Christmas Crossing”
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"When God is Silent.” A Sermon
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On the Thanks We Render Today
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“How Can I 'See' Jesus?”
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Crossings Film Series: Tom Baynham
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Christian Decline in America: The Pew Report
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Gospel Agents as “Trackers”
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Crossings Film Series: Rob Saler’s 2019 Crossing Conference Presentation
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Why Luther’s First Thesis Still Matters
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Talking Faithfully About Justification
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Crossings Film Series: John Brudgid
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A Dose of Bertram in Anticipation of Reformation Sunday
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Crossings Film Series: Lori Cornell's 2019 Crossing Conference Presentation
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“Shut Up, Already!” Part Two
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“Shut Up, Already!” Part One
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Crossings Film Series: Rosalind (Roz) Norman
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“Why?”
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Crossings Film Series: Carolyn Frisse
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“What Else Shall We Preach?” A Homily
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Crossings Film Series: Nathan Schroeder
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A Labor Day Challenge
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Two Wings of Effective Mission
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Crossings Film Series: Fred Niedner
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What Is God Doing?
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The “Freedom” Struggle: Another Tussle with St. Paul
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Crossings Film Series: Linda Strader
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To Give the Laity their Priestly Due: An Ongoing Lutheran Challenge
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Crossings Film Series: Richard Chiu
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On Parenting in 2019: A Law-Gospel Reflection
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Crossings Film Series: Steve Turnbull
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Our Christian Shame
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Good News for Chronic Sufferers
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Crossings Film Series: Marcus Lohrmann
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“What I Learned from Ed Schroeder” (Part 2)
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A Patriot’s Puzzle
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Crossings Film Series: Brad Haugen
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“What I Learned from Ed Schroeder”
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Crossings Film Series: Matthew Becker
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The Elevating Promise of God-Brought-Low
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Why the Reformation Matters Today (Part 2)
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Crossings Film Series: Ruth Hanusa
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Why the Reformation Matters Today
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Crossings Film Series: Marla Wood Kay
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Christ, Not Cyrus—Thank God!
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Our Priestly Mission
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Crossings Film Series: Ron Coulter
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Easter Mission at Courtside: A Coach’s Reflection
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Crossings Film Series: Steven Albertin
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Religion “Rebranded”
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Crossings Film Series: Jerri Carlin
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In Ed-ifying Memory
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Crossings Film Series: Nathan Hall
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Faith as Evidence of the Resurrection: A Theme in St. John’s Easter Account
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Crossings Film Series: Ron Neustadt
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Looking at the Passion through the Wrong End of Exodus, and Other Notes for Holy Week
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Anticipating Easter: A Sermon on Luke 24
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Crossings Film Series: Francisco Herrera
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A Surprising Paucity of “Forgiveness”
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Where is God When Disaster Strikes?
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Crossings Film Series: Chris Repp
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The Gospel at E. 93rd and Kinsman
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Crossings Film Series: Lori Cornell
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Why I Detest the Expression “People of Faith”
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Giving Thanks for Ed Schroeder (Repost of "The Care and Redemption of God’s Creation")
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“Will No One Have the Guts to be a Sinner?” (Part 1)
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A special message from Crossings, about Edward H. Schroeder
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Why I Detest the Expression “People of Faith”
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Crossings Film Series: David Zahl
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Mission of God: Gospel of Luke
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Crossings Film Series: Steven Kuhl
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A Review of Brian Stanley’s "Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History"
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Honest-to-God Gospel Meets the Dying World
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“To Be” or Not “To Be”: A Question to Ask When Reading St. Paul
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Crossings Film Series: Kathryn Kleinhans
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How God’s Law Works: Epiphanies from a Fiction Writer
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Why Jesus’ Baptism Matters for Jesus’ Missionaries
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Crossings Film Series: Sherman Lee
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A Preacher Still on Trial
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“A Little Dirt for Christmas.” A Sermon.
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Crossings Film Series: Candice Wassell
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Reflections on Mission: A Starting Point
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The Preacher's Task: Robert W. Bertram to Lori Cornell (and Every Proclaimer)
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Crossings Film Series: Ed Schroeder
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Thursday Theology November 29, 2018
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Crossings Film Series: Cathy Lessmann
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Crossings Film Series: Marty Lessmann
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Crossings Film Series Premiere
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Getting real about sin on Reformation Sunday
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1) A Quick Note on Mark 7 for this Sunday. 2) An Impending Transition.
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Humanity coram Deo - Pieces of a 1947 Lecture by Werner Elert
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Fred Niedner Keynotes 2019 Crossings Conference, “When God Is Silent”
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A Crossings Love Story
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Pentecost is for Preaching: Part 2
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Co-Executive Directors Announcement
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Peter Keyel on the Usefulness of Superhero Movies
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The Use of Romans 13
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Two Takes on God’s Unfolding Apocalypse, American Style
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God Hidden/God Revealed—an Essential Bertram Corrective, per Matthew Becker (Part 2 of 2)
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God Hidden/God Revealed—an Essential Bertram Corrective, per Matthew Becker (Part 1 of 2)
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God Hidden/God Revealed; according to Werner Elert, via Matthew Becker (Part 2 of 2)
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God Hidden/God Revealed; according to Werner Elert, via Matthew Becker (Part 1 of 2)
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More Easter Bits and Pieces from John 20
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Anticipating Easter. A Rerun.
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Some Essential “Crossings” Theology in Plain English, Continued. (Part Two of a Keynote Presentation)
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Some Essential “Crossings” Theology in Plain English. (Part One of a Keynote Presentation)
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The Word Became This Flesh
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Bibliography of Robert W. Bertram
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No “Mission” in Luther? A Re-examination (Part 3 of 3)
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No “Mission” in Luther? A Re-examination (Part 2 of 3)
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No “Mission” in Luther? A Re-examination (Part 1 of 3)
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Reflections on Luther the Person, Part 2
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Reflections on Luther the Person, Part 1. (With Quick Notes on the Forthcoming Conference, and on Matthew 25)
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A Reformation Day Epistle
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“Think Gospel, Preach Christ!” Lessons from Elert for Today’s Church (Part 3)
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“Think Gospel, Preach Christ!” Lessons from Elert for Today’s Church (Part 2)
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“Think Gospel, Preach Christ!” Lessons from Elert for Today’s Church (Part 1)
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Ecumenical Preaching
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Reading the Hurricanes
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Why Jesus? A Preacher's Mission-Minded Reflections
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Easter Mission in 2017 (A Homily by Martin Lohrmann)
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Caveat Caesar, Emerging from the Shadows, and Other Thoughts for Easter
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The Eerie Wonder of Tennessee Jack Daniels
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Steven Kuhl on "Reformation Spirituality" (Part Two)
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Steven Kuhl on “Reformation Spirituality”
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The Pastor’s Job
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The American Myth
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Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Epistle, Year A
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What Does It Mean "To Follow Jesus"? Tips from Ed Schroeder
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Theology for Third Graders on the Cusp of Christmas
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Werner Elert on Truth, and Why It Matters
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Post-Election Conversation; the January Seminar
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The necessity of Christ for his Christians, post-election
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Justification by Faith at Ground Level (An Example)
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Bill Burrows on Spirit, Church, Gospel, and the Centrality of Christ
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An Assortment of Readers' Responses
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Two Questions for the Baptized Person (Part Three of a Keynote Address)
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An Approach to “Discerning the Spirit” (Part Two of a Keynote Address)
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The Confounding Gospel (Part One of a Keynote Address)
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A Timely Look at Pentecostalism through a Law-and-Gospel Lens (Part Three)
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A Timely Look at Pentecostalism through a Law-and-Gospel Lens (Part Two)
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A Timely Look at Pentecostalism through a Law-and-Gospel Lens (Part One)
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The Donald and Me
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Ed Schroeder on Kingdoms and The Kingdom. A July 4th Special
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The Gerasene Demoniac, a Strange Yet Timely Text
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Easter Leftovers, especially a Nagging Question about John 20:23
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1) Robert Kolb on Why Luther Matters Today (A Reading Tip). 2) Christ and "The Cloud"
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A Sunday Morning Explanation of the Liturgy
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Easter Unfolding. A Gift from Amy C. Schifrin. Part 2
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Easter Unfolding. A Gift from Amy C. Schifrin. Part 1
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A Scientist’s Easter Witness
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Rob Saler on the Publicly Engaged Church, Part 2 (Rich Fare for Holy Week)
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A Most Timely Essay on “The Spirit and the Publicly Engaged Church"
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Steve Turnbull on "The New Humanity,” Part 2.
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Steve Turnbull on "The New Humanity.” A Must-Read for Holy Week. Part 1.
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Two Covenants, not One. A Book Review
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A Gift for Lent from Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Poet and Theologian
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Last Week's Sixth Crossings Conference. A Quick Review
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Crossings: for Bruce Modahl on his retirement
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THE HOLY SPIRIT IN WERNER ELERT'S THEOLOGY
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The Holy Spirit in the Age of Pentecostalism
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE UNHOLY SPIRITS
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“Fill us with your Spirit to establish our faith in truth” 1
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Discerning the Spirit in the Double Life of Christian Vocation:
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Discerning the Spirit in the Double Life of the Congregation/Church: The Japanese Context
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The Spirit-given Challenge of the Double-Life
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The Spirit and the Publicly Engaged Church
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Ed Schroeder Weighs in on "Radical Hospitality"
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"What Time Is It?" (A Sermon Suited for New Year's Day)
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Angles on Angels, and on Genuine Christmas Peace
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A Call for Reformation as a Church Year Dawns
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Listen to the Veterans, Part 2. Counsel for a "Non-Religious" Veterans' Advocate
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"Will No One Have the Guts to be a Sinner?" —Preface and Ur-text
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War Can't Be Just. Listen to the Veterans
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A Christian Approach to Interfaith Relations
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Three Distinctions to Make when Reading the Bible
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"Third Use," Round Two. A Citation from Luther
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A "Third Use" of the Law? Doest the Formula Say That? Does the Notion Make Sense?
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A Belated "Duh!" on "Take Up [Your] Cross and Follow Me."
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How the Parable of the Good Samaritan is Good News, aka Gospel
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Augsburg and Charleston
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Ed Schroeder on the Tim Frakes Documentary, "Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided"
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Getting Back on Track, with a Report from the Mockingbird Conference
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On Faith. Eleven Bertram Theses, Newly Unearthed.
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Death, Life, and Baptism (3)
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Unearthing Gospel Gold: Remarks on What It Is, and How to Find It
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Death, Life, and Baptism (2)
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Death, Life, and Baptism (1)
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“Fail, for Christ’s sake!” A Dose of Luther for Lent, 2015
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“Fail, for Christ’s sake!” A Dose of Luther for Lent, 2015
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Unearthing Gospel Gold—the Essay, Part II
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Unearthing Gospel Gold—the Essay, Part I
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The Legend of Lambeau: The Sacred Space and Religious Ritual of Professional Football
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Candice's Presentation - January 2015
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“Football Fandom: The Idolatry of College Football”
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a) “Unearthing Gospel Gold,” a Seminar, with a Nudge from Taiwan. b) Felde on the Lord’s Prayer.
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Describing the Law/Gospel Distinction: The Fuller Version
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“Joy and the Christmas Burglar”: A sermon for Christmas Eve
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A Stab at Describing the Law/Gospel Distinction
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“Sheep? Goat? Try ‘Member of the Family.’” The Real Surprise of Matthew 25.
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Homily on the anniversary of an ordination
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Luther on the Ten Virgins—and the Surprising Source for This
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Something Greater Than Justice.” A Post-Ferguson Reflection
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More Musings on ‘Justification’
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Original Sin
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Octoberish Orts. 1) Richard Dawkins, Fundamentalist? 2) Romans 3 in English 3) The Intriguing “God’s Word” Translation
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An MD’s “Crossing” of DOCTORED. The Disillusionment of an American Physician
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Book Review: DOCTORED. The Disillusionment of an American Physician
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Tracking Guardians of the Galaxy
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Good News for the Disconnected?
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What Happens on the Cross? An Interchange and Conversation, Part 2
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What Happens on the Cross? An Interchange and Conversation Part 1
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A Rite for Labor Day
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Why We Ordain
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Eschatology as a Function of the Gospel
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Adding the Gospel
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On Hope and Ignorance: Gleanings from the Mission Field
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Seminaries are the problem, not the solution.
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Augsburg, Ramadan, and ISIS
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Response to Jungkuntz homily
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On Christian Obedience: A Homiletical “Aha!”
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Jesus and Evolution? Seriously! (A Book Review)
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Book Review: FROM THE OXUS RIVER TO THE CHINESE SHORES: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia
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Book Review: DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER! by Donald Ray Soeken
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The Daily Life of the Christian, Part 2
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The Daily Life of the Christian, Part 1
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Book Review: SABBATH AS RESISTANCE by Walter Brueggemann
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Two Recent Samples of Easter Confession, Thomas-style
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The Agony of the Empty Preacher
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The Holy Thing of Holy Week
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A Grass-roots Theologian on the Faith-Works Connection
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A Lenten Labyrinth
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What the Bishop Said about "Repent," and other Post-Conference Notes.
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“The Christian Chaplain in a Pluralistic Society”
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Preaching Christ Alone in an Age of Pluralism: Insights from the Wittenberg Tradition
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Preaching Christ Alone in an Age of Pluralism: Insights from the Wittenberg Tradition
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Responding to Various Proposals Regarding Religious Pluralism
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CROSSING THE GREAT COMMISSION IN A PLURALISTIC AGE
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Proclaiming Christ Among the Religions
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The Old Testament and Other Religions
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African Realities Today Through Lutheran Lenses
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The Good News of St. Matthew's Genealogy
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Can One "Preach" the Law? An Interchange, Part 2
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Can One "Preach" the Law? An Interchange, Part 1
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Campus Ministry
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Advent Orts (on Mandela; the Promise; Francis and Joy; Justice; Certitude)
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On Religions, Liturgies, Distinctions—and a Huge Difference. A Book Review
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"One for All and All in One": A pitch for your presence at the forthcoming Crossings conference via some ruminating on Good Friday prayers.
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Genetic Engineering
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Seminex Exile - Love It. Don’t Leave It
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#800 Pop-Cultural Theologies of Glory
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#799 Justification by Grace through Faith": What Does This Mean?
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Like Movement, Like Seminary
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Ordained into Whose Ministry?
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Bertram's Subtle Dependence
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A Time for Confessing Is a Time for Liberating
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A Crossings Celebration: Ed Schroeder and His Ministry
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Affirmations of God's Mission
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Where on Earth are the Heavenly Places?
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#798 The Quest
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#797 The Passive Church. An Argument in its Favor.
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#744 A reading of St. Mark, Crossings-style (Part 3)
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#796 The Lazarus Story
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#795 Liturgy and Gospel: A Snippet of Pastoral Counsel
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#794 More Ways Than One to Preach a Text
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#793 Orts: 1. On rules. 2. Concerning the hidebound. 3. On missing the point. 4. A bit of beggin
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#792 The ELCA's New Bishop
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#791 Sin, Sight, and a Vision of God
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#790 1) A Christ-confessing Mystery. 2) A Brief Christ-confessing "Aha!"
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#789 The Gospel Lives!
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#788 An Exemplary Conversation (2)
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#787 An Exemplary Conversation (1)
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#786 Kumbaya Revisited
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#785 A Life and Ministry Shaped by the Good Shepherd
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#784 Preaching and the teleological temptation
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#783 Reexamining the "face of God" metaphor
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#782 Seeing the face of God
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#781 The Awards Ceremony Address You Wish Your Child Might Have Heard
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#780 The teacher's calling, especially in a parochial school
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#779 Musings on Ministry and the Holy Spirit
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#778 Luther as Mission Theologian
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#777 Some Uncommon Common Sense about "Mission"
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#776 The Preacher's Audience: Participation in the Mystery
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#775 The Preacher's Audience: Some Give and Take
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#774 "Full Communion" Relationships and the Mission of Christ, Part 2
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#773 "Full Communion" Relationships and the Mission of Christ
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#772 Where is Jesus in the "Talents" Parables? An Angle on the Passion
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#771 Idolatry and the Gun Debate
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#770 The Preacher's Audience
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#769 Judgment Day (Part 2)
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#768 Judgment Day (Part 1)
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#767 The Deified Gun
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#766 Ash Wednesday Musings, with a Nudge from Machiavelli
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#765 God's deadly diagnosis
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#764 Book Review — GOD'S REIGN AND THE END OF EMPIRES by Antonio González
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#763 Talking with the "Nones"
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“It Can’t Be All That Bad: Why God’s Deadly Diagnosis Of Our Human Condition Matters”
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#762 Nervy Faith, or How to Appall a Pietist
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#761 Reclaiming the Sain in Sain Sex
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#760 See my lawyer
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#759 Grace, Truth, and Glory
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#758 Christmas Preaching in the Wake of Sandy Hook
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#757 Book review—THE DIVORCE OF SEX AND MARRIAGE by Robert W. Bertram
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#756 Book review—BROKEN HALLELUJAHS by Christian Scharen
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#755 A Perfect World
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#754 An Observation on Bertram's First Question
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#753 Thankfulness
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#752 Six questions for any text or sermon
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Informal Remarks on the Historicity of Adam
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Legal Morality And The Two Kingdoms
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#751 The Cultural Roots of Schism (Part 2)
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#750 On Being Special, or Not. A Double Crossing.
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#749 Manichean America
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#748 The Cultural Roots of Schism (Part 1)
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#747 A reading of St. Mark, Crossings-style (Part 5)
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#746 A reading of St. Mark, Crossings-style (Part 4)
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#745 Ed Schroeder Reports from Toronto
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#743 A reading of St. Mark, Crossings-style (Part 2)
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A reading of St. Mark, Crossings-style (Part 1)
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The way, the truth, and the life
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John's Gospel and Christian Unity, Conclusion
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John's Gospel and Christian Unity, Part Three
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John's Gospel and Christian Unity, Part Two
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Mr. Pelagius Goes to Washington. A Book Review
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John's Gospel and Christian Unity, Part One
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Play-by-Play Liturgy, Part Two
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In Blessed Remembrance
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Play-By-Play Liturgy, Part One
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So you thought you knew "deacon"?
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Loving Beyond Barriers
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Risking in Faith
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1 Peter 2:1-10 as a Text for Confessors
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The Athanasian Creed
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The Point of Christian Ministry
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Politics and Theology
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Johannes Bugenhagen, Public Theologian
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Following Jesus when things fall apart (Part 2)
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Following Jesus When Things Fall Apart (Part 1)
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Seeing Christ in Galilee
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Easter Sunday Preaching
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Lenten Disciplines
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The "Heart Disease" of Self-Referential Faith
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Discipleship in the Lutheran Tradition, Continued
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Discipleship in the Lutheran Tradition
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Mission in the Secular American Academy
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1) Think Christ. 2) Rethink Church
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Football Theology
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Response to John Roth's "How to Disagree Well"
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Mission in Mark, Part 3
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Mission in Mark, Part 2
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“THE FREUDIAN SLIP”
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“YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING?”
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“A PERFECT WORLD”
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The Church Executive as Disciple: Some Personal Reflections (Or Is It a Confession?) With Help from Matthew 10:38-39 and 11:28-29
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Following Jesus when things are falling apart - a post-liberation perspective from South Africa.
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“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?”
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“MAKING A DIFFERENCE”
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The History of Discipleship in the Lutheran Tradition
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PART TWO: The Disciple and the Church: The Fellowship of Faith
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Spit Miracles
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The Bishop (Church Executive) as Disciple
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CROSSINGS CONFERENCE JANUARY 2012
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“The heart-disease of Self-Referential Faith”
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PART ONE: The Disciple and Christ: Faith Alone
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Mission in Mark
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Best Books on Mission
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How to Disagree Well
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Justification in Nickel Words
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Images of Christ, Part 2
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Images of Christ
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Christmas Eve Preaching
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Preview of Next Month's Fourth International Crossings Conference
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Plain Speaking
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Whither Thursday Theology? A note from the Board of the Crossings Community
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The End of the Line: It's All About Faith and the Promise
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Theology of the Cross. Richard Koenig in memoriam
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A "Lutheran" Spirituality
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"Did Osama Win?"
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Limpet-Mine Theology and Gospel With No Additives
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A Parting Peace
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The Theology of Helmut Thielicke
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Christian Spirituality in the Workplace
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Risking the Tradition
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Still Missing after 10 Years, the "R" Word: Repentance
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A Book Review: Pastoral Care for Iraq/Afghanistan veterans.
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Another One from the Archives: Bob Bertram Requiem
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A Book Review: Dean Lueking, "Through Their Eyes. A People's View of the Global Church"
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A Bertram Original: Rediscovered Treasure
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The Crossings Six-Steps and World Religions.
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Gay is OK. An Argument from the Lutheran Confessions. What!?
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Faith-Statements from Young Confirmands (revisited)
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Leaving One Denomination to Find a Pure One
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Proclaiming the Good News
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Book Review - "I Am a Christian: the Nun, the Devil and Martin Luther." Carolyn M. Schneider.
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Law and Promise Reading of the Scriptures, Part III
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Law and Promise Reading of the Scriptures, Part II
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Law and Promise Reading of the Scriptures
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Christianity. The First Three Thousand Years.
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Confessing the Faith on Confirmation Day
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Islamization and the Christian Gospel.
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"All Done." The Homily on the Occasion of George Hoyer's Funeral
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Law-Gospel Theology and Family Life.
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Calvin/Luther conference at Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
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Baptismal Identity
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The Bible and Me. A Bishop's Tale.
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Anticipating Easter in a Eulogy during Lent
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The Crossings Curriculum of 1983-93 (Continued) with a Spinoff on Atonement Theories!
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The Crossings Curriculum of 1983-93--a Retrospective.
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Six Hundred Sixty-Six: Some Reflections on that Apocalyptic Number
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A Homily for Ash Wednesday
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On Not Losing the Cross in Today's Debate on the Atonement
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Justification - Jargon or Jewel?
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Seminex Profs and the Downfall of LSTC and the ELCA
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The 2011 Crossings Conference and President Obama's Address. Part III
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The 2011 Crossings Conference and President Obama's Address. Part II.
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The 2011 Crossings Conference and President Obama's Address.
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“What Do You Get When You Cross a Short Story with the Gospel?”
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“FOLLOW ME”
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Setting the Foundation: How Distinguishing God's Law and God's Gospel brings Jesus' Full Benefits to Bear on Real Lives in the Real World.
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“How He Did It”
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Cancel any Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the 95 Theses.
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Those "Solas" in Lutheran Theology
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A Lutheran Missiology: God's Promise the Cornerstone
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Bibliography of Edward Schroeder
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God's Facebook and the Other One
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Schleiermacher's Theology of Christmas
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Christian Buddhist, Buddhist Christian?
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Gospel-grounded Church Leadership. A Case Study
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Selections from Martin Luther for Advent.
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Segue into Advent on Donated Righteousness
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Reflections on THE Gospel, Another Visit Downunder
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Christianity and Politics.
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Homily for Reformation Day Celebration 2010
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Luther's Understanding of Law: Lex Charitatis, the Law of Love
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Luther's Rehabilitation in Recent Roman Catholic Opinion
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Some Items on Mission Theology
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A Confession of Faith prompted by the Dodoma Statement
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African Lutheran Churches Rebuke their Western Siblings
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"Simultaneously Sinner and Saint," a Second Opinion for the ELCA Journal THE LUTHERAN
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Theopaschitism [Yes, that's the topic. Pronounced (OED): theo-PA-skit-ism.]
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A Book Review on Science and Religion
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More Artifacts from Earlier Days in Australia. Ethics
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More Discoveries from That Year Downunder 1994
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"The Lutheran Message" - Just What is That?
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"Street Priest" in Vancouver, DTES
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Doubt and Certainty in "A Lutheran Christian Life for Today"
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Robert Bertram, Carl Braaten and the ELCA on Universal Salvation
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Demythologization, Theology of the Cross and Christ's Virgin Birth
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On Teaching Theology - A Slice of Life.
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Not Missing the Message in the Good Samaritan Parable
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Werner Elert's chapter on Economics in his book The Christian Ethos. (Part 2)
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Werner Elert's chapter on Economics in his book The Christian Ethos. (Part 1)
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Youth Ministry in America
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Faith Alone--Still a Minority Opinion?
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The Oldest Document in the Werner Elert Archives--A Sermon from 100 Years Ago.
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Carl Braaten's Autobiography
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A Heads Up for Trinity Sunday
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A Daystar Reader
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Muslims, Christians and the Common Good
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How Many Missouri Synods Are There? Two? Maybe even Three?
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Tragedy after Easter -- Easter after the Tragedy
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Luther's New Home in the Episcopal Church USA? Maybe, Maybe Not.
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Tidbits from Luther's Easter Sermons
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The Future of Justification - A Response to N. T. Wright
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Christ Fulfills God's Law on Good Friday
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A Book About Forgiveness
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Surprising Things Happen! A Quartet of Surprises at Mid-Lent 2010
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Part Two of "Werner Elert and Moral Decay in the ELCA!"
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Werner Elert and Moral Decay in the ELCA!
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"Is Anybody Out There Listening?" Part Two
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Is Anybody Out There Listening? Or Even Interested Enough to Want to Listen?
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A Report on Crossings International Conference III, January 25-27, 2010
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Werner Elert's Law/Gospel Textbook on Christian Ethics (Part II--Conclusion)
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"Missio Shaped by Promissio: Luth Missiology Confronts the Challenge of Religious Pluralism"
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Participation in and Transformation by the Promise
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CROSSING John 12:20-33 & “I Am An African”
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“IT IS FINISHED!”
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“Come over to M.I.T.—and Concordia—and help us.”
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“Let’s Roll!” The Mission of Christ the Insurgent, A.D. 2010
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Werner Elert's Law/Gospel Textbook on Christian Ethics
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Stephen C. Krueger In Memoriam
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Jesus, Age 12, at the Temple
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Is Luther’s Way of Thinking Missional?
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Alfa Papa, Bravo Tango, but Charlie Victor: Which Is to Say, The Proper Distinguishing of Law and Gospel Saves the Church (C) from the Two Oldest Heresies (A and B). A Gambit. 1
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Is the Great Commission Still Valid for Lutherans?
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Bread for the World and the Promise of God
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FAQ About Recent ELCA Decisions
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Two Different Gospels for The Night before Christmas --"Avatar" and the Mangered Messiah
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West Point Cadets, Obama's Speeches and Jeremiah 33.
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Further Conversation on "30,000 More Charioteers into the Red Sea?"
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30,000 More Charioteers into the Red Sea? "Finish the Job." Whose Job? On Whom?
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Primacy of Popes and the Promise. A Review of O'Malley's "The History of the Popes"
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Sample Sermon on an Apocalyptic Text.
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79 is a Prime Number. Some Ramblings on Passing that Prime.
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Two New Books from Old Seminex Colleagues
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"I held an umbrella . . . until we got through the resurrection."
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Memories, Memories--of Crossings, of Seminex
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The Future of Lutheranism In a Global Context
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Life on the FasTrak. But Not the One You May Think of First.
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In Washington, Missouri, Too -- It's a Time for Confessing
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The Next (or Next Next) Generation of Crossings Theologians
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Jeremiah Wright was Right: God is NOT Blessing America
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Those Ten Commandments - Conversation Continued
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Preaching the Ten Commandments
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The Crossings Method for Studying Biblical Texts
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Crossings Inc. Annual Board Meeting - My Report
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How my Mind has Changed? Well, Maybe.
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A Double Autobiography--Art Simon and Bread for the World
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"The Unlimited Mercy of God" - Armencius Munthe, R.I.P.
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Memento mori. Two Reminders of My Mortality
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The Crossings Matrix (Diagnosis/Prognosis) Keeps Moving
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Seminex at Thirty-Five.
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Augsburg Confessional Theology and the Sexuality Debate Part Two: A Canadian Sequel to Last Week's Post.
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Augsburg Confessional Theology and the ELCA Sexuality Debate.
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Crossing the Kidney Market -- With Law and Promise
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Some Luther Quotes for the Feast of the Holy Trinity
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Jesuit Theologians--One More Time
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The Making of A Local Church -- A Lutheran Review of a Vatican II Classic
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Preaching the Christian Gospel from Old Testament Texts. One More Time.
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Instrument for Internal Governance of Concordia Seminary in Exile
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Preaching the Christian Gospel from Old Testament Texts
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Testing Benedict XVI By the Company He Would Keep
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The Gospel in "The Shack" and the "Gospel in the Stable"
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The Lutheran World Federation Needs Help. It's the "L" Word.
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Two Easter Eggs for my Basket Came on Easter Monday
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Lutheran World Federation Consultation--The Augsburg Aha! of 1530 at Augsburg 2009.
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William P. Young. THE SHACK A Book Review by Phil Kuehnert, Pastor, Zion Lutheran Church, Fairbanks, Alaska
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True or False: The Vocation of Christian Congregations is to be "Public Companions with God in Civil Society."
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Burned-Out Biblicist?--Thoughts about Bart D. Ehrman
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Reading the Bible in Mission to the World.
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Many different Gospels, or one and the same Gospel, throughout the New Testament?
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Lutheranism’s Crying Need: A Mission Theology for the 21st Century
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Pope Benedict XVI
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A Cake for Seminex's 35th Birthday
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Jesus in the New Testament: Just How Real is He?
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"The earth showeth His handiwork." In a human hand?
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Fiftieth Anniversary
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His Hand Was on Lincoln's Bible, but . . . .
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Christless Christianity
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Mission from a Position of Weakness
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The Maasai Creed
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Mega-Fear, Mega-Joy
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Abraham's Paradoxical God -- God Most High and God Most Low(ly) [An offering from Frederick Niedner]
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A Sequel to last week's Advent and Apocalypse in America--from Werner Elert in 1932
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Advent and Apocalypse in America--a Triad for Crossing.
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A Lutheran "Op-ed" for Bible Reading in the ELCA, Part IV
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A Lutheran "Op-ed" for Bible Reading in the ELCA, Part III
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An "Op-ed" for Bible Reading in the ELCA, Part II
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Bible Reading in the ELCA
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Christian Buddhists? A Tale from Thailand [Part II]
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Christian Buddhists? A Tale from Thailand [Part I]
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Missional God Outside the Box: Law/Promise and Congregational Vocation
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America’s God: YHWH, Baal, or Golden Calf?
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"To Steal our Sin"
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The Lord’s Prayer: Efficiency, Efficacy, and Effect
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God and Pastoral Care
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‘And there’s no other God’: Being Honest to God about God
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Biblicism in the ELCA? Can that be true?
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Luther's Theology of the Cross and its Relevance for South Asia.
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Bush, speaking on the economic chaos
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And the Wall Came Tumbling Down
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Being a Lutheran Risk-Taker in the 21st Century
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Lucre, Linus and Luke -- Crossing the Current Financial Crises
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41 Days and 40 nights in Europe - Part II
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It's September 11 Again. It's been 7 years.
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IAMS XII
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F.W. Herzberger Part Four -- Herzberger's Theological Legacy Robin J. Morgan
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F.W. Herzberger Part Three -- Herzberger's Theological Legacy
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F.W. Herzberger Part Two
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Part One -- F.W. Herzberger
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Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
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Preaching Justice, Doing Mercy: The Gospel in the Public Square Can we, should we, and did we ever distinguish clearly between the vocations of preachers, prophets, and partisans?
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Our Time For Confessing in the Philippines-The People Power Revolt
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The 2008 Meeting of the American Society of Missiology, Part II.
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The 2008 Meeting of the American Society of Missiology
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Luther's Missiology. A Conference Paper
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Thoughts occasioned by reading Robert Bertram, A TIME FOR CONFESSING, by William R Burrows.
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Continuing last week's post: "A Mixed Report Card on 'Damn is Not a Dirty Word' and 'Preaching from OT Texts'"
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A Mixed Report Card on "Damn is Not a Dirty Word" and "Preaching from OT Texts"
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Robert W. Bertram, "Time for Confessing"-When Faith Hits the Road
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Book Review on Lutherans in Hitler's Germany
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Crossings in Indonesia and Preaching from Old Testament Texts
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"Damn" is Not a Dirty Word
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More Student Theology from that Augsburg Confession Class in Springfield, Illinois.
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Reflections on the Roman Papacy
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Mosaic Law: Two Views Both Claiming to be Lutheran
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Why Jesus? Still a Problem in our ELCA
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Student Achievement in Lutheran Confessional Theology
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The Augsburg Aha! -- "Human Will and Human Works"
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A Message from the Field: "Ed, You didn't get law/gospel right!"
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Obama and His Pastor -- Is God Damning America, or Not? That is the Question.
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The Crossings Family Tree: A Third Generation.
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The Augsburg Aha! -- Church and Secular Authority (AC 14-16, 23, 26-28)
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Robert W. Bertram "A Time for Confessing"
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The Augsburg Aha! -- "Sacraments"
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The Augsburg Aha! -- Class Session #3. "Church and Ministry"
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Some More Thoughts on the Augsburg Aha! - The Augsburg Confession Itself--Class Session #2.
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Pardon My Imprisonment - Anticipating Ash Wednesday.
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Some Thoughts on the Augsburg Aha! - The Augsburg Confession Itself
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Lord's Supper Liturgies
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Ed Schroeder's Thursday Theologies: The Gospel, God's Plus for Us
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Christian Education
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Abraham’s Paradoxical Experience of God
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The Christmas Gospel according to St. John.
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Angels for Advent, and Christmas too--The Message Makes the Messenger.
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"Living Well. The Balanced Life." - The Christmas-issue theme of THE LUTHERAN, the magazine of the ELCA
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When You Need to be Healed, You're a Mission Field
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Arthur Carl Piepkorn. A book-review. Part II.
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Arthur Carl Piepkorn
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"Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light" - A Book Review
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Chaplain's Ministry for Luther's 524th birthday--and--the 232nd birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps!
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Luther as Mission Theologian -- 9.5 Theses
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DOES CHRISTIAN MISSION DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD?
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A Mission Sermon
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A Bertram Memorandum. Another Artifact from Seminex Days and the Wars of Missouri
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Mission Theology for New Congregations
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Astronomy/Cosmology Breakthroughs and the God Question
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Why Seminary?
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The Wars of Missouri that Led to Seminex. A Retrospective. Part III: A Sequel from Bob Bertram
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The Wars of Missouri that Led to Seminex. A Retrospective. Part II
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The Wars of Missouri that Led to Seminex. A Retrospective.
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Memento Mori at Home
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ThTh Annual Report to the Crossings Board of Directors
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The Gospel of Reconciliation--Paradise Restored or God's New Deal for Sinners?
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Deaconess Evelyn Middelstadt, R.I.P.
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FOUR WEEKS IN WESTERN CANADA
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Review of John H. Tietjen's The Gospel According to Jesus. (St. Louis: Creative Communications for the Parish, 2006), 83 pp.
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A Review of Carl Braaten's "Principles of Lutheran Theology"
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The Confessing Church in the Midst of Empire
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Missio and Promissio--Mission and Promise
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Memento Mori
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Summer Solstice and Solo Survival
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Assorted Gospel Tidbits--Some from Luther, Some from Others
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An (Un)LUTHERAN View of the Kingdom of God
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A Christian Message and the Virginia Tech Massacre--One More Time
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Christian Message Proposals for VTU the Day after the Massacre
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Gospel Proclamation--Always a Challenge. At Virginia Tech . . . and at Other Places, All Other Places
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Trusting the Promise: Abrahamic Faith Then and Now
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Mixed Messages
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Bill O'Reilly, Culture Warrior, a Book Review
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What NOT to say After the Virginia Tech Massacre
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Preaching the Christian Gospel from Old Testament Texts
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A Caveat for Maundy Thursday--Especially for ELCA Lutherans!
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Using the Double Dipstick Test on Whether the Church Should Speak Out on Social Issues
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Crossing the Word of God with the "Work" of Zion Lutheran's Church Council
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The Elephant in the Sanctuary
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Reflections on the 2007 Crossings Conference, Part 2
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Reflections on the 2007 Crossings Conference
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Speaking from the Heart
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An Incarnation Narration
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Book review: "Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today"
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Sermon from Crossings Conference (2007) "The Net Made Flesh"
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The Net Made Flesh
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“Honest-to-God Gospel as Source of the Church’s Life and Mission”
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“America, Theologically Considered”
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The Congregational Leader: Gospel Shaping The Congregation
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Law and Gospel in Spiritual Care
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Who Is My Neighbor?
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Perhaps the Analogy is Auschwitz Rather than Vietnam
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The Future of the Church
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Honest-to-God Gospel Meets the Dying World
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WHAT IS THE CHURCH FOR?
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Walt Reiner R.I.P.
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Lutheran Hermeneutics--A New Contagion?
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The Augsburg Aha! The Gospel is a Promise, an Honest-to-God Promise. A Second Look at the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article 4.
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How the Distinction of Law and Gospel Shapes My Preaching
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What Drives My Life? A Study in Law and Gospel
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Today’s Debates on How to Read St. Paul-1
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Today’s Debates on How to Read St. Paul
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Using Law-Gospel to Interpret Scripture
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Luther’s Reading of the Human Condition
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Attending to the Care and Redemption of All that God Has Made
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CHRISTIAN ZIONISM AND THE CHRIST OF THE CROSS
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Being Faithful to the Bible While Doing Scholarly Theology
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In this Season: Light in the Darkness
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Mortality at the Manger 2006
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A Window to Heaven--When Children See Life in Death
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Theology Befitting a Bishop--a Proposal, an Offer
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Singing Around the Advent Wreath
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Thanksgiving -- with a Biblical Hebrew Accent
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"God Loves You" or "Christ Forgives You" -- Which One is Gospel?
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Images of Home
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Insiders / Outsiders at the Lord's Supper
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Luther's Theology of the Cross is Not a Theology of Suffering
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Hospice Reflections on John 11
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Sin and Forgiveness: How Bad the First One, How Good the Second?
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Mission Impossible?
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Can Rome be Home? Yes and No Answers from 2 Canadian Anglicans.
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Letter to President Bush
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The Theology in President Bush's Fifth Anniversary "Sermon" for Nine-Eleven (But all in vain)
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Bonhoeffer, "German Christians," and American National Religion
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Craig Nessan's Sermon: "Lazarus!"
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Should We Go Down With the Ship?
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Retiring from Doing Theology
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A Reunion at the Lazarus Parable
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Gnosticism and Legalism
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A Second Look at the Gospel of Mark—Midway in the Year of Mark
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The St. Louis Bonhoeffer Conference, July 19-21, 2006
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First Lutheran Missionary in India--Arrived 300 years ago (July 9, 1706)
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A Sermon Commending Repentance
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Talitha Kumi in the Cuckoo's Nest
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The Holy Gust on Skid Row--But Hardly a Surprise
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American Society of Missiology, Annual Meeting 2006
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Cross-winds at Pentecost
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The Trinitarian Dogma
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Earthquake in Yogyakarta
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The Ascension of our Lord
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Theologian Giants out of Missouri
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ELCA Launches Project on How to Read the Bible
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In the Afterglow of Easter 2006
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I've Got my Doubts about "Praising Doubt"
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"Lutheran Theology and Global Capitalism" [Or "Empire-building and Me"]
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Easter Epistle from Indonesia
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Luther and World Christianity. Part Two
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Luther and World Christianity
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Major American Jewish Theologian Calls for "Left-Hand-of-God" Theology
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The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology
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The History of Medical Missions
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A Book Review on Confession and Absolution - Lutheran Style
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More Discussion on Patterson, the Jesus Seminar and Jesus Himself
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Reader Response to last week's review of Stephen Patterson's book BEYOND THE PASSION. RETHINKING THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JESUS.
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For the "Jesus Seminar," Just How Much Jesus is Needed?
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An Op-Ed "State of the Union Address" for the USA 2006
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Reverie on Ten Years of Crossings on the Internet: Sabbatheology #1 Redivivus
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Lutherans and Catholics: The Journey toward Oz. Reflections on Conscience, Faith and Freedom
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Evangelical Church and Theology in the Ethiopian Revolution, Part II
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Evangelical Church and Theology in the Ethiopian Revolution
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Thank You Notes After Christmas
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Darwin, Design and Christmas
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Michael and the Dragon--On Earth the Battle Continues. Two Case Studies: Narnia and India
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Is "church" an "active noun," the subject of sentences? In the NT never
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What is Christian Spirituality? Answer: Faith in Christ
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Theological Perspectives on Max Beckmann's Paintings
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The Current Brouhaha About Intelligent Design
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Gospel Blazes in the Dark
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Luther as Mission Theologian -- 9.5 Theses
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Luther's 95 Theses--What Was That all About?
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God and Continuing Catastrophes
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Discipleship and Spirituality According to Luther's Catechisms
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Charity
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Theology of the Cross, the Melody of Three Books for Review
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Another View of the Blame Game
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Katrina
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On The Fourth Anniversary of 9/11, "Rays of Light": Law and Promise in the Wake of Katrina
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Responses to ThTh 376 about Carl Braaten's Open Letter to the ELCA Bishop
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Carl Braaten's Jeremiad: ELCA is Just Another Liberal Protestant Denomination
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Walter R. Bouman, R.I.P. "God's Yes and God's No"
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The Second Use of the Gospel in Lutheran Reformation Theology - Part II
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The Second Use of the Gospel in Lutheran Reformation Theology - Part I
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God's Kingdom, God's Regime-change--some responses
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Caught in the Crosshairs: A Study of Psalm 2
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The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy. PART TWO
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The Kingdom of God in Today's Mission Theology - A Controversy. PART ONE
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Implications of Luther's Treatise on Good Works for Four Common ELCA Practices and Ideas
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The Theology of Johannes von Hofmann
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Book Review--THE RAPTURE EXPOSED
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365 Thursdays--7 Lean Years or 7 Fat Years? A Manipur Test Case
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Walter R. Bouman's Sermon: "The Foolishness of the Gospel is our Wisdom"
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THE LEGALISATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part II)
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THE LEGALISATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part I)
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Legalism and the Gospel in Papua New Guinea
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Legalism and Ascension Day 2005, Part I
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Art Simon's book on American Affluence, a Review
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Pastoral Theology From an Atheist Who Became a Bishop
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Clinging for Dear Life in the Season of Easter
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Crossing Real Life With Easter--In Bangkok, With Terri Schiavo
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Rehabilitating Rejects. God's Building Project in Psalm 118, the Psalm appointed for Easter
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Homosexuality and Creation Theology
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Homosexuality. Demonic Diversion from Gospel Mission and Ministry Today
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Database Theology
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Theology of Freedom, Part 3
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Theology of Freedom, Part 2
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A Book Review. "The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology" by Mark C. Mattes
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A Lenten Devotional Booklet for 2005 on the Crossings Website
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Theology of Freedom in President Bush's Inaugural Address 2005
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The ELCA Task Force report on Sexuality: Conscience-bound or Conscience-freed?
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Are Lutherans really "Strong on Justification," but "Weak on Sanctification?"
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Tsunami Preaching in the 12 Days of Christmas
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Christmas and the Heart of Darkness
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How I Finally Got Advent
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The Peace and Justice Mantra. Part II
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The "Peace & Justice" Mantra
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The Futures Market for Advent
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Repentance in America, What Might it Look Like?
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Remembering Werner Elert - Fiftieth Annversary of his Death
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Luther's Birthday and American Politics
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Eulogy Plus Gospel - A Case Study: David Truemper, R.I.P.
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Reflections for Reformation Day
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Eulogies at Christian Funerals--Some Second Opinions
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How to Give a Eulogy
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Faith as Surrender (Revisited)
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Faithful Teaching, but Religious?
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Responses received to the last two postings: "9-11 on the Third Anniversary" (ThTh 327) and "THE LUTHERAN surrenders " (ThTh 328).
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THE LUTHERAN surrenders
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9-11 on the Third Anniversary
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Missiology at the IAMS 2004 International Meeting - An Elephant in the Living Room, Part 2
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Missiology at the IAMS 2004 International Meeting - An Elephant in the Living Room
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Deconstructing the Concept of MISSIO DEI "in the Light of the Gospel."
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Is Robert Gagnon, the New Glue for Linking "Conservatives" in ELCA and LCMS?
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Some Reverie Brought on by Renate Bethge's Bonhoeffer Book
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Renate's Bethge's Book on Bonhoeffer - A Review
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Deconstructing Missio Dei "in the Light of the Gospel."
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Is There a Hole in the Net of the "Word Alone Network?"
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Faith in EXTREME Daily Life
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Closure on Singapore--Well, Not Quite
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Two Conflicting Texts on the Fourth of July
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Singapore Postscript II -- Vietnam and Myanmar (once Burma)
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Singapore Postscript I
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Theology of the Cross. A Singapore Congregational Presentation
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The Dark Side of Humanity - a Lutheran Take, a Pastoral Caution and Counsel
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What about Jesus' Miracles?
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The "So What" Factor
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Discipleship--Lutheran Style
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Some spin-offs from Justification by Faith Alone
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Justification by Faith Alone
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"God-Sized" Task to Tame Fallujah
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Gibson's "Passion" film, one more time
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Another Look at Gibson's Film "The Passion of the Christ"
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Mel Gibson's Movie: THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
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John Damm's Homily at John Tietjen's Funeral
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First signals from Singapore
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Bob Bertram in memoriam, Part II
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Lenten Reverie. First Anniversary of Bob Bertram's Death.
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Mission Affirmations Run Through a Law-Promise Sieve
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Your Responses to recent ThTh Postings
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Book Review of Martin Marty's MARTIN LUTHER
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Your God is Too Small
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John Tietjen's Sermon on Confessing Christ
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Affirmations of God's Mission
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Seminex at Thirty. Random Ramblings for an Anniversary
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"Lord, Bless This Mess, Please!" A Sermon at the Daystar Conference
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The LCMS Mission Affirmations of 1965--Then and Now
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2004 Won't be a Happy New Year in the USA, So Long As . . . .
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Confessing the faith on Christmas Day in the Morning
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Third Use of the Law--One More Time
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Jaroslav Pelikan and Roland Bainton--Just before Christmas
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Faith Place
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Martin Marty's SPEAKING OF TRUST. A Review.
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The Reformation. What was it all about?
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Third Use of the Law and "Valparaiso" Theology - A Book Review (Part II)
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Third Use of the Law and "Valparaiso Theology" - A Book Review (Part I)
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Proposal: When Jesus says: "That they may all be one," he's NOT talking about ecumenism.
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The God Question
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Book Review - J.A. Nestingen: MARTIN LUTHER: A LIFE
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Theses on "Biblical Authority and Biblical Hermeneutics" by Werner Elert
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Another Look at the "ELCA Study on Sexuality: Part Two"
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Andrew Weyermann in memoriam
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(Still) In Bondage to Biblicism - "ELCA Study on Sexuality: Part Two"
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What's in a Name?
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How I Spent my Sabbatical
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Rescue from the Darkness of Captivity
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Crossing Workplace Slavery with Freedom in Christ
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Book Review by Robin Morgan
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R.W.Bertram on REVELATION (Posted in two parts. This is Part II)
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R.W.Bertram on REVELATION - Posted in two parts. This is Part I
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Bertram's "Heretical"? Theology and the Missouri Synod national convention 1973 in New Orleans. A Reprint.
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Missouri Synod / Seminex / Bethel Church In Crisis (Part II - Conclusion)
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Missouri Synod / Seminex / Bethel Church In Crisis (Part I)
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A Crossing from Psalm 118: What Makes Those Rejects Sing?
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Timothy F. Lull - In Memoriam
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ELCA Publication on Homosexuality - Short on Promise, Long on Law
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Reader Response to the Wine/Wineskins of Contemporary Worship
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Schroeder Summer Sabbatical
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"Church of Joy" theology--right here in St. Louis, Part II The ELCA
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"Church of Joy" theology--right here in St. Louis
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Christians in Time of War--Hitler's Germany, Today's America
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Gospel and Community Church of Joy [CCOJ], Part 2
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Which Gospel Creates a "Community of Joy?"
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The Eastering of Robert W. Bertram
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Voices from Australia: One on Armageddon, one on the Holy Spirit
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The Day of Jesus Embedded in the Tomb
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Shock and Awe in Time of War, Part II
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Shock and Awe--at the Power of Death or the Power of Life?
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"Your Gospel is too Small." A Look at 2 Recent ELCA publications.
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The Reverend Dr. Robert W. Bertram International Lutheran Theologian, Interpreter of Seminex by Ed Schroeder
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Is it Still Worth Being a Lutheran?
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A Review of William Lazareth's "Christians in Society: Luther, the Bible and Social Ethics"
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The Folk Religion of "God Bless America" - Revisited
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Lay Leadership at the Lord's Supper
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The Folk Religion of "God Bless America" [FROGBA] - A Crossings-style Analysis
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Aarhus Revisited - Theology Where the Rubber Hits the Road. From: Robin Morgan
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The Theology of President Bush's 2003 "State of the Union" Address
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Aarhus Conference by Fred Niedner and Dave Truemper
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Law-Promise Hermeneutics, Lutheranism's Core Charism - for Every Context. Case Study: Mission Theology
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FELLOWSHIP AT THE LORD'S SUPPER
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"The Role of Mission in the Future of Lutheran Theology." Some Thoughts drawn from Luther and the Lutheran Confessions
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So you want to be a priest, then?
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Luther as Resource for Mission Theology
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To fear or not to fear?
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Peace on Earth in Bethlehem 2002. A Blue Christmas?
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Semper Fideles (Always Faithful) at a Time of War
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Advent Letter from Bethlehem & Apocalypse Now
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Thanksgiving. A Gratitude Attitude? Not Really
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Interfaith Prayer
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Book Review - Colin Chapman's WHOSE PROMISED LAND? THE CONTINUING CRISIS OVER ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
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You're in Charge and I'm Not by Robin Morgan
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The Festival of the Reformation
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Law and Gospel Theology: An Unused Resource for Social Ministry
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Christians Amidst the Bali Massacre
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Luther's essay ON WAR AGAINST THE TURK
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The Lord's Supper: How open, how close?
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Exodus: A Saving Event? (One more time. Might it be the last?)
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Regime Change and the Word of God. Some Theological Reflections
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R-words for September 11
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Luther and Islam at the Tenth International Congress for Luther Research, August 4-9, 2002 in Copenhagaen
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Willingen II (2002), The 50th Anniversary Congress on "Missio Dei" [Latin for God's Own Mission]
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A Baptism Serendipity
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A Theology of Acceptance – Part 2 Edward H. Schroeder Proceedings of the 1964 Valparaiso University Workshop and Institute on Human Relations
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A Theology of Acceptance, Part 1 Edward H. Schroeder Proceedings of the 1964 Valparaiso University workshop and proceedings On Human Relations
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Using Luther's Concept of Deus absconditus for Christian Mission to Muslims
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Now About the Risks Involved... Edward H. Schroeder "Interaction," March 1975
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"Where on Earth are the Heavenly Places?" Edward H. Schroeder Interaction, February 1976
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The Economy of Forgiveness
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The Exodus: a Saving Event? Not Really [Part 2]
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Till the Night Be Past: The Life and Times of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The World Trade Center Revisited
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The Exodus, a Saving Event? Not Really
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Grabbing at Jesus
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Mission Theology for the 21st Century
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Mosaic and Christic Ethos in the Gospel of John
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Update from Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem
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From a Crossings Colleague in Beirut, Lebanon: "How the Israel-Palestine Conflict Looks from Here."
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The Church's Authority and Homosexuality
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Richard John Neuhaus, A Mystery No More [Part 2]
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Richard John Neuhaus, A Mystery No More
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A Tribute to Irmgard Koch
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Jesus Through Jewish Eyes
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Just how good is the theology of GOD BLESS AMERICA?
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Christian reports on the Israeli Invasion of Palestine
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Creation Spirituality - an Other Gospel
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Prayer and Providence
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Six Months After Sept. 11
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"Pardon My Dying: A Sequel to Ash Wednesday"
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Desert Theology and Lenten Piety
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Richard Lyon's Crossing - A Funeral Sermon
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A Lenten Parable: Babette's Feast
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The Gospel covers the Greatest Sin (and which sin, pray tell, is that?)
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Mostly Mission, Some Miscellanea
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Grounding One's Theology in the Gospel, when the issue is Homosexuality - Part 2
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Grounding One's Theology in the Gospel, When the Issue is Homosexuality
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Hildegard of Bingen by Robin Morgan
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Mission and Tradition
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Year's End Summary: the Hassle about the Gospel
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Even So, Lord Jesus, Come Quickly
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Sermons Empty of Gospel : Part 3
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Sermons Empty of Gospel: Part 2
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Sermons Empty of Gospel
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Responses to ThTh #179 "Repentance and Apocalypse Now"
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Repentance and Apocalypse Now
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Repentance is not Popular--Neither in our Nation, nor in our Church
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The Conflict on Mission Theology in the ELCA
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Lutheran Theology for Mission
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National Repentance #6: Proclaiming Repentance in the Public Square
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National Repentance #5. (I wish it were the last one.)
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For a Nation to Repent (Continued) #4
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Reformation Resources: Law/Promise Hermeneutics & the Godly Secularity of Sex
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A Letter to President George W. Bush
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Lutheran Missiology -- An Oxymoron? Maybe Not -- Especially, Not Now.
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Terror and Repentance, Part II
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Coping with Terror--the Missing "R" Word
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Getting married in church
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The Law's So-called "Third Use"
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2001 Churchwide Assembly by Robin Morgan
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The Mission Scene in Bali Today: Post-Denominational Church History 2001
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Empire-building infects us all
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What Women Clergy Have Taught Me
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Organized Congregation - An Oxymoron? - Part 4 (Finale)
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Ninety-Five Theses on Church Control
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Organized Congregation - An Oxymoron? - Part 3
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The Organized Congregation - An Oxymoron? Part 2: Reader Responses
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Homosexuality revisited
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Armenian Orthodox Church's 1700th (sic!) anniversary plus other churchly tidbits
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The Organized Congregation. An Oxymoron?
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Urban Ministry and the Historic Episcopate
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Pastor in a Country Church
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The Call to Common Mission [CCM] - One More Time
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The People of God in the Holy Land Today
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Eucharistic Community: A Canadian Case Study
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Responses to ThTh 148:"Easter without Eucharist. Feast or Fast?"
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The Theology of West Wing
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Easter Message from the Holy Land
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Easter without Eucharist. Feast or Fast?
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The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and Lutherans in Eastern Europe. Part 2
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Getting Well/Better
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Dark Gethsemane: A Lenten Message from the Holy Land
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The Missouri Synod's Presence in Eastern European Lutheranism
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Ferment within the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion
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Self-Reflections for Ash Wednesday
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Salvation(s)
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Lutheran Missiology--Oxymoron? Part II
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Lutheran Missiology: An Oxymoron?
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Letter from the Lutheran Bishop of Jerusalem to US President George W. Bush
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Justification - An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
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Salvation. What is it Really?
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Responses to Non-Western Theology
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Non-Western Theology, Part 2 - The Stress in Letting the "Kids" Grow Up
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Samplings from Non-Western Christianity
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Theology of Nature - Two Lutherans' Viewpoints
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Thoughts of a Manger
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Christmas 2000 in Bethlehem
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Reflections on the Message of the Advent Season
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Roman Catholic - Eastern Orthodox Rapprochement
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The Enlightenment That Won’t Go Away: Modernity’s Crux
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Crossings Theology: Roots and Branches
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A Book Review on "Proclaiming the Scandal."
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A Crossing for Thanksgiving Day 2000
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Being Threshed by a Real Comer (Luke 3:7-18)
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Bulldozed by Baptism: The Better to See You With
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Christian Conversation with an Ex-Marxist
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Palestinian Lutherans in Today's War Zone (Continuation of ThTh #124)
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Magnificat Advent 4
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Macedonian Call from Palestinian Christians (that you haven't seen on CNN)
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Historic Episcopacy and the ELCA - Responses from Readers
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The debate within the ELCA about HE-succession (continued)
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Greater Accuracy on the ELCA's agreement with US Episcopalians
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Reader Response on Necessitating Christ in Preaching
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Luther's Theology of Mission
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Response to Sermon
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Two Letters 1: Out of Africa -- Some Observations 2: How ugly evil is!
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Unity of the Church:the ELCA's In-House Controversy on the Historic Episcopate
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Readers' Responses
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Preaching the Gospel (again!)
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The Authority To Be (Culpably) Inclusive: A Mark of Bonhoeffer's Confessio
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Common Christological Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East
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Nestorius and the Nestorian Church
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Requests from Bishops
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Reader Responses
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Women Pastors - Christ's Gifts to the Church
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Church Discipline
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Coping with Chaos
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The Ownership Question- Whose We Are
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Missiology in the Orthodox Seminary in Albania
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Mission Theology Begins with a Sad Message
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The Order of Philippi - A Crossings Spin-off
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Two Theology Classes in St. Louis
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Dysfunctional Authority--in Families and in Churches
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Christological Difficulties at IAMS 10 - Part II
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Street Ministry
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Grace Notes - Two of them
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A Time for Confessing in the Missouri Synod (continued)
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A Time for Confessing in the Missouri SYnod
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Book Review -- "Reviving Sacred Speech" by Gail Ramshaw
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Christology at the Tenth I.A.M.S. Missiology Conference
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A book on Authority in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
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Fasting & The Resurrection of the Body
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Faith/Works Conundrum Responses
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The Faith/Works Conundrum
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A Book Review of FAITH ALOUD: DOING THEOLOGY FROM THE HYMNS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. by Marcus Felde, Goroka, Papua New Guinea: Melanesian Institute, 1999
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The Law and Promise Hermeneutic in a Postmodern Context
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What Kind of Fool am I? A Reflection on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
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Lutheran Theology and Chinese Religion
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A Pastor's Accountability in Church Growth
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CHRISTOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES AT IAMS 10; Some Thoughts about IAMS 10
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"Gospel Basics For Adults" - A curriculum for new members
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Postmodernism and truth: a theological perspective
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Living with Two Calendars
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THE JOB OF UN-CURSING THE WORLD
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Whose Church is it Anyway?
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"The Grace of God has Appeared." Which Grace?
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Readers' Response plus Two Macedonian Calls
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The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Lutheran-Roman Catholic Consensus
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The Gospel as Advent Theology
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Mission in the New Millenium - A South African Voice
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Readers' Feedback: "How does Jesus on the cross make a difference?"
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Measuring sermons to see if they're Gospel
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Being Like God's Widow: Reflections on Freedom and the Stewardship of Money
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Some Reflections on the Theology of Bishop I Wayan Mastra
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What is Safe?
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Reflections on the Mango Tree Church
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Book Review -- The Mango Tree Church
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From "Tappert" To "TroBoC," Sola Fide
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A Balinese Religion Primer with American Commentary
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Changes in Japan Today: Two Christian Perspectives
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Book Review -- "Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African-American Experience"
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A Book Review GRACE AT THE TABLE. ENDING HUNGER IN GOD'S WORLD
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Tim's questions (and Ed's responses) about Christianity in Bali
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Ketut Lasia--Balinese Christian, Balinese artist
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Why Jesus?
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Remembering Mr. Makoto Mizuno
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Mid-summer items on Law and Gospel
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Rebuttal of Poetic Preaching -- THTH57&58
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Poetic Preaching -- part 2 Robin Morgan
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Poetic Preaching by Robin Morgan
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An Expanding Theology: Faith in a World of Connections. E.J.Dwyer, Newtown NSW, 1993, xii - 227 pages.
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TELLING TIME or Whose Millennium Is It Anyway?
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Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular World
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A Response to Homosexuality and Reformation Theology
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One Christian's Response to "Star Wars -- The Phantom Menace"
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God-as-Gospel: The Doctrine of the Trinity as Science and Theology Converge
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Pluralism’s Question to Christian Missions: Why Jesus at All?
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Homosexuality and Reformation Theology
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A Feminist Christian's Theology--Two Reviews
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The Other Half of the U+turn of Repentance, a Response to ThTh 48
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Repentance: Coping with God the Critic
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Outsiders and Insiders
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Historic Episcopate--Another (once underground) Voice
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Theology of the Cross or Theology of the Resurrection?
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Relocating Authority in the Family
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Response to Luther Research
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Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son in the Old and New Testaments: A Jewish Scholar's Report
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Two responses re: The Vatican and Me
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Christian Callings: Care & Redemption of Creation
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The Care and Redemption of God’s Creation
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Augsburg Confession & Luther's Catechisms
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Union With Christ
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The Vatican and me
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Romans 5:12-19 February 11, 1999
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Part 2: One Lutheran's Agenda in Today's Homosexuality Discussion
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One Lutheran's Agenda in Today's Homosexuality Discussion
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Theology of the Cross in the Holy Land
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Living Stones
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The Impact of Holy Land on Faith
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Elert on Freedom
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Lutheranism and World History
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Implications of Justification in the Many Contexts of Today's World
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The Promise of Lutheran Ethics -- Law/Gospel Grammar
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THE PROMISE OF LUTHERAN ETHICS -- Back to the Decalogue?
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Justification by Faith Alone -- Doctrine or Hermeneutic?
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THE PROMISE OF LUTHERAN ETHICS -- Forgiveness, Faith, Freedom
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MATTHEW 1: 18-25 (Fourth Sunday in Advent)
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THE PROMISE OF LUTHERAN ETHICS, Karen L. Bloomquist & John R. Stumme
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Responses to "What Lutherans really believe."
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Theology of the Cross
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Two for Eternity
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LOSING OUR VIRTUE. WHY THE CHURCH MUST RECOVER ITS MORAL VISION
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Moving our Congregations from Maintenance to Mission
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The Historic Episcopate Question?
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Moving Our Congregations “From Maintainance to Mission”: Is the Jerusalem Congregation at Pentecost (Acts 2) a Model?
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True Repentance and President Clinton's Confession?
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Seminex Remembered -- Faculty Reductions/Closing Shop
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Seminex Remembered -- Four Crucial Votes
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Seminex Remembered -- The Theology Department
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Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, part 3
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Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, part 2
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Vatican "Clarifications" on the Catholic - Lutheran Joint Declaration on Justification
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Seminex Remembered--Seminex's own Theology
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Seminex Remembered--Strange and Wonderful
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Robert C Schultz's response to the Gay/Lesbian Ordination Resolution
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Augsburg 1530/Seminex 1974
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Gay/Lesbian Ordination - The Central States Synod Resolution
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Summer Conventions: Is it New Orleans all over again?
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And Then There Were Three
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Bishop's Job Description: What does Augustana 28 say to us today?
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Even Rome Can be Home, but . . . Should Today's Augsburg Catholics Long to Go There? Not Really
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Foretasting "Full Communion": Tomorrow's LutEpisc Today
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HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND?" YES, BUT WHICH HAND?
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Luther’s Commentary on the Third Article as a Clue to His Theology of Other Religions
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WILL "FULL COMMUNION" INCLUDE FULL CONVERSATION?
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Lutheran-Reformed Full Communion: A Modest "No"
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Falling Short of the Glory
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INFANT COMMUNION? THEN WHAT IS COMMUNION? OR BAPTISM?
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A Forty-Day Journey through Lent -- but Never Alone
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A History of Crossings
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Charismatic Pneumatology
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The Right to Be Responsible
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Ministry
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Problem of Evil? Or Problem With God?
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Depth in the Faith
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Relocating Authority: A Perennial Family Issue
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“Who Suffers in the Trinity? Theopaschitism in Theology”
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A Case from AC 28 for Women in the Pastoral Office Today
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Depth of Faith
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Encountering the Hidden God
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A Whole New Work: Lutheran Images Of the People of God in Creation
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Carl J. Peter, Jr. (1932-1991): A Tribute
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The Soteriological Mission of Theology: Robert W. Bertram
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Thankfulness: An Apostolic Afterthought?
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Abounding in Hope
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The Exchange of Peace
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IS DIALOGUE HAZARDOUS TO ECUMENISM?
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“Laity in Ministry to the World: God’s Secret Weapon for Reforming the Church and the World”
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“Scripture and Tradition” in the Lutheran Confessions
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Take the Jerusalem Bypass Matthew 2:1-12—The Visit of the Magi
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Korean Women Search for the Silver Coin
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Do Not Cling To Me
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Whitehead’s Theory of God and the World
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Forgiving One Another, Out Loud
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What Crossings Is/Was/Might Be
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Lutheran Confessional Perspectives in Today’s World
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Altogether By Faith
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When is God Triune?
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Liberation by Faith: Segundo and Luther in Mutual Criticism
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The Ministry of "the Ordained" and "the Laity"
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CRESSET, CORRELATIONS AND CROSSINGS
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Bertram’s Subtle Dependence Employing the sincere form of flattery,
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PUTTING THE NATURE OF GOD INTO LANGUAGE: NAMING THE TRINITY
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A Time for Confessing Is a Time for Liberating
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A Time for Confessing Is a Time for Liberating
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Luther on the Unique Mediatorship of Christ
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Correlations and Crossings
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REFORMATION FAITH AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM
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“Review Symposium on Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise” by Ronald F. Thiemann
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EXPLANATION-JUSTIFICATION: A RUNG FOR SHARPE'S LADDER
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A Constructive Lutheran Theology of the Saints
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The Lord's Supper in the Dialogues - A Horizontal Look
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A SMITHIAN LUTHER AND FAITH-BASED UNIVERSALISM
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Three Parables from Stavanger The WCC’s Faith and Order Commission’s Plenary Meeting
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“FAITH ALONE JUSTIFIES”: LUTHER ON IUSTITIA FIDEI
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Mary and the Saints as an Issue in the Lutheran Confessions
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RECENT LUTHERAN THEOLOGIES ON JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH: A SAMPLING
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Political Preaching Thirty Propositions on Addressing Controversial Social Issues
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Luther and the Liberation of the Laity: Part II: The Freedom They Employ
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Luther and the Liberation of the Laity: Part I: The Liberation They Enjoy
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Baptism and Confession
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Theological Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
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REDEEMING HEFNER'S "DISCERNING THE TIMES"
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Chicago Theologians on BEM
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From Reflection to Responsible Living: Where Do We Go From Here
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Confessing the Faith of the Church
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A Baptismal Crossing
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Dialogue Theologians Must Hurry to Keep Up With Grassroots
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A Christmas Crossing II
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HOW A LUTHERAN DOES THEOLOGY: SOME CLUES FROM THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS
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THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LUTHERAN TRADITION
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Jesus and the Gentiles
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“The Present Governance Structure”
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Responsibility: A Confessional-Ethical Splice
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An Epiphany Crossing
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A Christmas Crossing
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A Trans-Pluralism Trend: Might It Become Confessional?
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Re-WORDing the Localist, Anti-bureaucratic Movement into an Intentional, Confessional Movement
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OUR THEOLOGICAL SHAPE FIVE YEARS LATER OR A NEW MOVEMENT AND A WORD FOR IT
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WHAT LUTHERANS CONFESS
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Assesses Movement’s Future Role
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Assesses Movement’s Future Role
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WHERE IS THE CONFESSIONAL MOVEMENT MOVING?
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Transfer of Church Authority to Church Administration?
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Using the Doctrine of Original Sin in Pastoral Care; Some Theses for Discussion
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Like Movement, Like Seminary
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Look Again
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“Who Me?”
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Confessional Movements and Formula of Concord Article 10
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Seminex Exile—Love It. Don’t Leave It
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A Letter in Response to a Call to Teach at Seminex
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“Ethical Implications of Military Leadership”
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Responsible Theological Education
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Luke’s Gospel Through a Systematician’s Lens
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Churching the Movement
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Whose Church Is It? - Receiving Women Pastors
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Still Needed: A Confessional Movement
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'A Statement' A Mis-Statement
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Where on Earth are the Heavenly Places?
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......”Now About the Risks Involved....”
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Current Implications of the “We Condemn" Statements in the Lutheran Confessions
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Six Steps--Give or Take One
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HOW TO BE TECHNOLOGICAL THOUGH THEOLOGICAL: AN ANSWER FOR “FABRICATED MAN” 1
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THE HERMENEUTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF APOLOGY IV
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Ordained Into Whose Ministry?
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Confessional Allegiance and Historical Method: Conflicting Accountabilities?
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The Free Loser
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Letter to the Board of Control, Concordia Seminary
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Isn’t the Church Big Enough For Both of Us?
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Those Troublesome Mission Affirmations
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Confessional Subscription
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What’s Lutheran About Higher Education? Theological Presuppositions
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Crossings, Inc. (Saint Louis): A Proposal
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What Is So Great About Faith?
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CONFESSION OF FAITH
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Piepkorn in PERSPECTIVE
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A Personal Memorandum
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Critique of President Preus’ Statement
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TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS.... Redeemable for Christian purpose?
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The WORD for New Orleans
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Poem to John Tietjen On the 20th Anniversary of his Ordination
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INFORMAL REMARKS ON THE HISTORICITY OF ADAM
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GOSPEL REDUCTIONISM: Some Theses for Comment and Discussion
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Johann Eck and Jacob Preus - Parallels: 1530 & 1972
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The Lively Use of the Risen Lord
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Reconsidering Lutheran Identity in an Age of Theological Pluralism and Ecumenical Challenge
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Encountering The Last Enemy
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Law-Gospel Reductionism in the History of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
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The Orders of Creation—Some Reflections on the History and Place of the Term in Systematic Theology
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Pardon My Dying
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THE GOSPEL AS GOOD NEWS IN TODAY’S WORLD
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How Free are the American Churches? A Clue from Martin Luther King
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A Theologian’s Perspective on Economic Activities in the Christian World Mission
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SUB IUDICIO NOSTRO
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One Covenant or Two? An Interview with Dr. Edward Schroeder and Dr. Theodore Ludwig
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An Argument for Academic Theology at VU
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DOING THEOLOGY IN RELATION TO MISSION
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The Role of Women in the Church of Jesus Christ
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The Role of Women in the Church of Jesus Christ
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Models for Ministry in a Secular Age
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Family Ethos in the Light of the Reformation
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Letting the Word Go to All the Trouble and Take the Trouble
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THE CHURCH AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER: SCRIPTURAL AND CONFESSIONAL BASIS
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“Immortality”
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On the Nature of Systematic Theology
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Theistic Evidences in Contemporary Protestant Theology
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Oh Theophilus! Oh G. G.!
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The Twice-Free Student
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Our Common Confession and Its Implications for Today
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Does MAP (Metropolitan Associates of Philadelphia) Need Theology?
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The Layman and His Church: A Theological Study
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Reformation by Faith – But Where?
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Spirituality is for Angels--The Angels of Michael
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The Doctrine of Justification Today
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The Theological Promise of the Convention Workbook
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Some Theses for Discussion on the Dogmatic Constitution De Revelatione of the Second Vatican Council
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The Radical Dialectic Between Faith and Works in Luther’s Lectures on Galatians (1535)
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The Word of God in the Genesis Creation Account
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Is There a Lutheran Hermeneutics?
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The Relationship Between Dogmatics and Ethics in the Thought of Elert, Barth, and Troeltsch
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The Complete Centurion
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The Relation of Other Disciplines to the Study and Teaching of Theology: An Attempt at a Lutheran Perspective
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BE IT EVER SO HUMDRUM
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Even Rome Can Be Home
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“Review of Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter With God”
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Accepting My Role as Acceptor
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A Theology of Acceptance
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Suffering
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Robert Bertram's Dissertation: The Human Subject as the Object of Theology
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The Professional Responsibility of the Christian Lawyer
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HOW OUR SINS WERE CHRIST'S: A STUDY IN LUTHER'S GALATIANS (1531)
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“Preface” to Theology in the Life of the Church
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C.F.W. Walther On Law and Gospel Toward a Revival of Lutheran Hermeneutics
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C.F.W. Walther On Law and Gospel Toward a Revival of Lutheran Hermeneutics
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Scripture and Confessions; A Session with Schneeweis
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Lord Teach us to Pray
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The Gospel as the Answer to Youth’s Problems: Vocational
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What Can Law Do For Revelation
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Social Justice: A Recollection of King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
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IT IS A SIN TO TELL A LIE; THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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HUMAN FREEDOM IN A LUTHERAN THEORY OF EDUCATION
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Legal Morality And The Two Kingdoms
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Freedom Under Law
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Brunner on Revelation
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