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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:10:05 +22318332 (CDT)
From: suzyq@mail.pittstate.edu (Susan M. Johns)
My name is Susan Johns, and I'm a member at St. John's ELCA here in
Pittsburg, KS. As a long-time church musician, I am more than not at my
home church but am regularly employed in various mainstream protestant
churches who desire quality musicians and who often seek after that elusive
quality of hymn playing and liturgy, or, perhaps, better phrased in one
comment I recently heard, "how come all the organists in town are Lutherans
and how come they're all employed in non-Lutheran churches?!"
I often escape to the liturgical confines of St. Philip's Episcopal Church,
in Joplin, MO, where I recently introduced myself to one lady as a visitor,
and when I told her my name, she replied, "Oh, I know you, you often post on
ANGLICAN", so apparently it is not safe to lurk even on listservs and visit
area churches any more in the cyber age!
I am full time faculty at PSU as the Systems and Circulation Librarian, and
recently returned from sabbatical over in the United Kingdom. I am quite
fond of both the German and English liturgical traditions. I have two dogs
and a garden full of peonies, coneflowers, budelia and heather. I am not a
rabid feminist, although I can play the role when provoked by idiotic
rhetoric :-)
I look forward to our new list as a source of fellowship, cameraderie, and
hopefully a place of learning and nurturing.
Susan Johns
Systems/Circulation Librarian
Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS 66762 Fax: (316) 232-2430
suzyq@mail.pittstate.edu Voice: (316) 235-4115
http://library.pittstate.edu/staff/susan
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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:46:50 -0400
From: Tom Jones
Hello,
As an introduction, I was raised Episcopal but married LCMS and have since
become ELCA. I have taken training in the lay ministry programs. My study
has been in the areas of doctrine.
Currently I am doing investigation into the Celtic church as established by
Saint Paul and how it was carried from Galatia across the Upper Danube into
central Europe and eventually Britain where it came into conflict with the
Roman church.
I have been in public education now for over thirty years. My graduate
thesis was in the areas of Jungian typology and effects on teaching styles.
My beliefs tend to more strict constructionist while at the same time
emotionally in need of what has been described on the elca net as "smokey
mary."
As my name would indicate, my ancestors came from Wales. This summer I
began learning the language as is the case of hundreds now in America and
Wales. The language mirrors many things in our society that nearly found
itself in extinction but rebounded with vigor.
I am bound to the King James version but seek dynamic expression of Luther
in Bonhoffer.
Thank you ,
Tom
Thomas J. Jones
Assistant Principal
Upper Pittsgrove School
235 Pine Tavern Road
Monroeville NJ 08343 USA
Phone: 609 358-8163
FAX: 609 358-1024
Internet: utjones@willie.salem.cc.nj.us
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 04:14:09 -0700 (MST)
From: jorstade@IMAP1.ASU.EDU
FRIENDS, This is my introduction. I am Erling Jorstad, Professor
Emeritus at St. Olaf College. I retired in June of l994 after
38 years of teaching American history, in particular American
religious history. Now we winter in Scottsdale. I am a cradle
Lutheran, growing up in a town where there were and still are
eight Norwegian Lutheran parishes, to say nothing of LC-MS
and Haugeites.
I am working on several projects, the immedaite one being
"25 Bicycle Trails in Southeast Minnesota" which is great
fun. It is for Countryman Press's series on Bicycle Trails in
America. and by no coincidence my daughter is my copy editor:-->
I am also getting ready "A Time for Healing: Faith, Miracles,
and Spirituality in the 1990s." Right now I am trying to
understand the enormous appeal for people of faith of such
practitioners as Larry Dossey, Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra,Herbert Benson
and others. I'll be writing more about this soon. And I'm putting
together my Elderhostel notes on "Whatever Happened to that Old-Time
Religion?" The audiences there are wonderful sources of insight.
I look forward to an active participation on this list.
Erling Jorstad, jorstade@imap1.asu.edu