20 years of
Living Theology in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod since 1996
By Frederick J. Schumacher
By John A. Lang
By Frank C. Senn
By Benjamin Dueholm
By Gordon J. Straw
By Maxwell E. Johnson
By Frank C. Senn
By Frank C. Senn
Marcus Lohrmann is a Master of Divinity student at the University of Chicago Divinity School serving at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago as a field education student. His wife Bekki is a pastor in Joliet, IL. This summer he will be traveling to Cuba in order to examine public theology and ministry. Marcus is also a songwriter and performing artist.
“That b**** is gonna haunt us.” The sister coaxed a laugh out from behind her tissue, snorting through tears. The three women in the room gazed down at the youngest of the them and smiled at the inside joke passing just beyond the reach of the chaplain’s ears. The dead woman was covered in homemade […]
The catechumenate presupposes something about the condition of the people entering our church buildings. It is a presupposition that gets lost between the cracks of our clamoring anxiety in conversations about dwindling church membership. The catechumenate presupposes that people are hungry. There are a number of ways of understanding where and how an adult catechumenate […]