ON STAGE: MYTH and HISTORY

Joel Nickel In November 2022 the Festival Chorale Oregon sang (once again after 40 years) Benjamin Britten’s “St. Nicolas,” a cantata dealing with the legends of Saint Nicolas, Bishop of Myra during the early years of the fourth century. The music was first performed in England in 1948. There seems to have been much historical…
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A Take on Art & Theology

during the closure of the Balcony Gallery at Peace Lutheran Church, Salem, Oregon Rev. Joel Nickel The current viral pandemic requires personal safety, masking, and observing the directions of public health authorities. In the meantime while our church art gallery is closed, we have a chance to meditate and think about the intersection of art…
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In Response to the CCM Opinion of July 3, 2014

Pr. Joel Nickel Joel Nickel is a pastor in the NW District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  He is well known  in the area for his ecclesiastical art.  In this article he addresses the ruling of the Committee on Constitutional Matters (CCM) which is printed after his response.   This scholastically reasoned opinion effectively elevates…
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