“To live in the twentieth century is to wear the stitch of horror on one’s heart, so close are we to the edge of violence.” — Martin Marty Marty wrote those words in the shadow of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Cold War. I was born in the twentieth century but I …
Tag: writing
The Cake Itself
“God makes music. It is inevitable, therefore, that the men of God whose words we hear in Scripture are singers and poets. They are not poets accidentally, not ‘also’ poets, but poets because they are men of God, the prophets and apostle[s] whose word the church receives and embraces. It is misleading to speak of …
A Bit Pale By Comparison
For Martin Franzmann, his wife Alice was the “lady who (saving all their lovely reverences) has made all other ladies seem a bit pale by comparison.”[1] For me, Martin Hans Franzmann is the Lutheran theologian, who, saving all their lovely reverences, has made all other Lutheran theologians, especially those named Martin, seem a bit pale by comparison. …
an occasional theologian 