From the President
♦ October 20, 2016 ♦ Everyone I speak to agrees on at least one thing: the political climate in the past several months has grown unusually toxic. The coarsening of public language; the revelations of predatory sexual behavior; the continuing distortion of...
From the President
♦ Sermon Given by Roger Ferlo July 24, 2016 ♦ St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago The 10th Sunday After Pentecost Whoever it was that wrote the letter long ascribed to Paul, something had gone terribly wrong. It’s hard to tell from this distance, but fledgling...
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♦ June 13, 2016 ♦ A Letter from President Ferlo Dear Friends, Yesterday afternoon, I joined with hundreds of gay and straight Chicagoans at a silent vigil in Lakeview, a neighborhood known affectionately as “Boystown,” as we mourned for those killed in Orlando in that...
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♦ Sermon Given May 26, 2016 ♦ The Feast of Corpus Christi The Church of the Advent, Boston Pope Urban IV usually receives the credit for getting us here in church on a Thursday evening outside of Holy Week. “Miraculous is the memorial … in which the sign is...
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Letter read by President Ferlo at 2016 Commencement at Trinity Lutheran Seminary May 21, 2016 To the President, Board of Directors, Faculty, Staff, and Graduates of Trinity Lutheran Seminary: Grace to you and peace from the Lord Jesus Christ! On this, the final day of...
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In the beginning when God created the heaves and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Genesis 1:1–3 My...
