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Articles by Frederick J. Schumacher

Frederick J. Schumacher is Pastor Emeritus of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, White Plains, NY where he served for forty years and the retired Executive Director of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau where he served for twenty years. An avid collector of medals of Martin Luther and the Reformation he has had at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago for a year an exhibit of medals of Katharina von Bora which just recently was added to an exhibit he has of medals of Martin Luther and the Reformation at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the editor and compiler along with Dorothy Zelenko of the four volume For All The Saints: A Prayer Book For and By the Church (New Delhi, NY: American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 1994-96).

Historic Medallion Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

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From Conflict to Communion – The First Joint Commemoration of the Reformation – Lutherans and Roman Catholics Together PDF of figures referenced in text PDF of this entire article: Historic Medallion Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation – Schumacher It is widely known that had it not been for the invention of the printing […]

A Lutheran Learns to Read and Write Icons

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In 1988, for the thousandth anniversary of Christianity in Russia, I had the joy of leading a tour to Scandinavia and the Soviet Union, entitled “From Trolls to Icons.” I didn’t know then that the encounter with icons would so fascinate me and that after an almost mystical experience I would become a student of […]