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Receiving Guadalupe

February 11, 2015 by Thelma Megill-Cobbler

No Lutheran has taken up the scholarly and ecclesial issues surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe — in terms of its narratives, popular manifestations, liturgical history, iconography, and implications for theology as a whole — as has liturgist Maxwell Johnson of Notre Dame. “Religiosidad Popular: The Virgin Mary and Lutherans” in the last issue of Let’s […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Who Owns the Bible?

February 11, 2015 by Thelma Megill-Cobbler

Who Owns the Bible? Toward the Recovery of a Christian Hermeneutic by Karl Donfried (Crossroad: 2006) Originally presented at St. Luke Lutheran Church (Belmont), Chicago, December 2007 Who owns the Bible? I will begin with three quotes, which in different ways lead to Donfried’s answer. A. The Church. B. The Church. C. The Church. Maintaining […]

Filed Under: Ministries of Word and Service

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N. T. Wright

February 11, 2015 by Thelma Megill-Cobbler

N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (New York: HarperCollins, 2008) 332+xiii pp. hardcover. Most people in the wider culture think that Christian hope is about “going to heaven when you die.” Apparently many Christians think so, too. Wright shows that if this is all that […]

Filed Under: Environmental Theology

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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