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Christ Seminary Seminex Professor of Ministry/Worship/Church Music
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Luke, Chicago

About Mark Bangert

Christ Seminary Seminex Professor of Ministry/Worship/Church Music
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Luke, Chicago

Heads or Tails

May 28, 2016 by Mark Bangert

When it comes to choosing hymns for Sunday and Festival services it sometimes feels like a coin might serve best. There are so many from which to choose, and, it seems, the hymn repertoires grow exponentially day by day. One way to solve the dilemma is to seek help. There is plenty available. On pp. […]

Filed Under: Multiculturalism and Worship

With One Voice

May 19, 2016 by Mark Bangert

(This article is excerpted and adapted by Let’s Talk with the permission of the author. The material is from two presentations made at the June, 1995 Synod Assembly of the ELCA Southwestern Washington Synod.) Centering Worship for the Sake of the Gospel Clement of Alexandria, writing a few years before II and III John were […]

Filed Under: Worship and Evangelism

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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