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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

December 18, 2017 by Frederick J. Schumacher

From Conflict to Communion Joint Commemorative Medallion - photo of obverse and reverse

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 […]

Filed Under: Commemorative Projects, Reformation Jubilee 500

A Lutheran Learns to Read and Write Icons

January 30, 2014 by Frederick J. Schumacher

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 […]

Filed Under: Religion and the Arts

20.1 Lent 2015

The Catechumenate

19.4: Advent 2014

Communion and Community

19.3: Ordinary Time 2014

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Food and Justice

19.2: Pentecost 2014

Latvian Wheat by Dace Kiršpile

Growing Leaders

19.1: Epiphany 2014

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