Let's Talk

20 years of
Living Theology in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod since 1996

  • Home
  • Issues
    • Welcome to Let’s Talk 2020
    • 22. 2 Reformation Jubilee 500
    • 22.1 Death and Dying
    • All Issues 1996 – present
  • Noted Guest Authors
  • About
  • Contact

Powered by Genesis

You are here: Home / Archives for Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Diversity of a Different Sort

February 11, 2015 by Gregory Holmes Singleton

Ethnicity is an important factor in understanding diversity within the complex identity of the ELCA. It is one of a number of variables necessary to comprehend the social and cultural complexities of any large pluralistic population in the United States. Other key factors are gender, sexuality, class, region, and local social morphology (urban, suburban, exurban, […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Another Way to Interpret the Bible

February 11, 2015 by Frank C. Senn

On the basis of Bishop Landahl’s introduction of Dr. Ralph Klein at the 2007 Metropolitan Chicago Synod Assembly, I thought that Dr. Klein would address options for interpreting the Bible. In other words, he would give us a lesson in hermeneutics. The bishop introduced the professor by reminding the assembly that the ELCA is engaged […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Reflections on a Mission to Honduras

February 11, 2015 by Lou Quetel

“I want you to join our mission trip to Honduras!” That was the enthusiastic invitation I received from Pastor Gary Olson of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Naperville. I agreed to think about it – and then politely declined at a later date. When I mentioned the invitation (rather unenthus-iastically) at a council meeting the […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

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

Voces Luteranas Emergentes

February 11, 2015 by Ivis LaRiviere-Mestre

(An English language version follows the original text) Este artículo desea dar a conocer la trayectoria de las voces proféticas y evangelísticas latino-luteranas que se han incorporado dentro y fuera de la estructura de la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en América (IELA) para promover un enfoque evangelístico que es auténtico, autóctono y representativo de las comunidades […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

How Do We Talk About God?

February 11, 2015 by Wolf D. Knappe

I am what you might call “old school.” When I grew up, we children were taught to pray to God, our Father. In confirmation class I learned Luther’s explanation of the introduction of the Lord’s Prayer: “Here God encourages us to believe that he is truly our Father and we are his children. We therefore […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Anxious Exegesis and Immigration

February 11, 2015 by Benjamin Dueholm

An experienced observer of public religion in America could, without reading anything on the topic, imagine the outlines of the unedifying theological debate over our country’s immigration policies. Recent attempts at rewriting immigration laws have addressed the difficult policy areas of border security, a guest worker program, establishing the status of those already here illegally […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Imagenes desde la Perspectiva de la Encarnacion

February 11, 2015 by Antonio Cabello

A synopsis of the essay… In the accompanying Spanish language essay, Pastor Antonio Cabello defends the use of sacred images and icons in worship and devotion, through scripture, patristic writings and Luther. Images are not objects of worship in and of themselves. Rather, they serve to remind God’s people of what He has accomplished on […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Bibliography for Hispanic-Latino Ministry

February 11, 2015 by Keith Forni

(part 2) Abalos, David T., Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1986. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Vida en Comunidad, Salamanca, Ediciones Sígueme, 2003. Elizondo, Virgilio P., La Morenita: Evangelizer of the Americas, San Antonio, Mexican American Cultural Center, 1980. Francis, Mark R. & Pérez-Rodriguez, Arturo J., […]

Filed Under: Hispanic Latino Theology and Ministry II

Recent Articles

Homily at Bach Vespers: Breathing Together Again

Observing Ash Wednesday 2021

Sermon on Embodied Racism

As I See It: Public Health and Public Worship During COVID-19

Is Fasting from the Reception of Holy Communion the Same as Fasting from the Eucharistic Liturgy? A Lutheran Liturgical-Sacramental Reflection on Eucharistic Praxis during COVID-19

Jesus Known in the Breaking of the Bread

Communion at Home

Jessie: A Palm Sunday Parable in the Midst of the Pandemic of 2020

Forsaken

Why Virtual Communion Is Not Nearly Radical Enough

23.1 Advent 2019

the Brown Virgin (La Morenita)

“Eternity,” You Thunder Word

By Frank C. Senn

Farewell Sermon: Home Rejoicing

By Benjamin Dueholm

Self-Care: Being Present to God and to our Bodily Selves

By Frank C. Senn

Holy Living

By Richard O. Johnson

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Season of Advent

By Maxwell E. Johnson