Fall 2006
Arthur Simon Editorial Note: Art Simon is the founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, the nation’s premier citizen’s lobby against hunger. He served for almost two decades as its chief executive officer and then directed the Washington Office of Christian Children’s Fund from 1992 to 1997. He was pastor of Trinity Lutheran…
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Robert Schmidt In the September 2006 issue of the LCMS Reporter Uwe Siemon-Netto, a German national and director of the Institute of Lay Vocation at Concordia Seminary, wrote about our need to heed our calling as Christian citizens. The international journalist rightly selected the Lutheran doctrine of the calling as an appropriate place for Christians to face…
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J. L. Precup Editorial Note: Chaplain J. L. Precup graduated from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, in 1972. After ordination he served a parish in Chicago, Illinois, and then took a call to a congregation in Mexico City, Mexico. While in Mexico he was commissioned at our embassy as a chaplain in the Naval Reserves. After two years…
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Jerrald Pfabe Editorial Note: Jerrald Pfabe is a professor of history at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska. He teaches courses in Spanish and U.S. and Latin American history. He has traveled extensively in Latin America and has studied in Mexico and Costa Rica during sabbatical leaves. A graduate of Concordia, River Forest, he has M.A. and…
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Robert Sylwester Editorial Note: Robert Sylwester is an emeritus professor of education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology. He has written 20 books and curricular programs and 150+ journal articles. His most recent books are A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom (2003, Corwin Press)…
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By Eugene Brueggemann All of us have a stake in the interface between religion and politics. Some of us support the agenda of the religious right, which stands for traditional values like opposition to homosexual behavior, for love of country and opposition to the slippery slope of secularism. Others of us emphasize equally biblical…
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