An Unexpected Call to Ministry
Text: Genesis 12.1-4 a Occasion: Monday after Lent 2, Year A. This, my senior chapel sermon, was delivered on Monday, 21 March 2011, in Loehe Chapel at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, IA. I can be sure that God has a sense of humor, because I am in seminary. In Iowa. I had never really [...]
Synodical Assignment: Nebraska
On March 3 we got a call from Bishop David deFreese letting us know that we have been assigned to the Nebraska Synod! No one else from Wartburg is heading to Nebraska, but from the Facebook group that has formed around the 2011 ELCA Spring Assignment, I gather that there are at least four others [...]
Regional Assignment: Region 4
On Wednesday we learned our ELCA regional assignment: we’re heading to Region 4. That covers the lower Midwest, from Nebraska south through most of Texas and the Louisiana Gulf coast. Region 4 is also home for us – we come from the Central States Synod, which comprises all of Missouri and Kansas. Of course, we [...]
Saturday Stretch, End-of-internship Edition
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.’ – Revelation 3.20 (NASB) I want to leave a legacy. How will they remember me? Did I choose to love? Did I point [...]
New church website launched!
Our congregation in Dubuque, Lord of Life Lutheran Church, has launched a new website! I, along with those in the Lord of Life Website Task Force, are proud of the result and happy to announce it to the world. With the switching on of the new website, our email and calendaring infrastructure now is running [...]
Morning Light
A Setting of Morning Prayer for the season of Easter Ted Carnahan ted@tedcarnahan.com In the Spring semester of 2009, I was invited by Thomas Schattauer, Dean of Loehe Chapel at Wartburg Theological Seminary, to work on a setting of matins (i.e. morning prayer) for the season of Easter. The result is Morning Light.
End of an Era – WartVid
You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em… – Kenny Rogers I’m shutting down WartVid. WartVid was a project to get the Wartburg Seminary community to save money on DVD rentals and Netflix subscriptions by listing each person’s collection online and making it easy to share. It had a lot [...]
Internship Assignment
I’m now free to tell the world that Jennifer and I will be spending the next year, probably starting sometime in July, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sterling, IL. We’re excited – this seems to be a good supervisory match, an interesting congregation, and an opportunity to explore some questions in technology and ministry. [...]
Internship Assignment… soon.
Well, Wednesday was a really big day. Jealaine Marple and I, as co-presidents of the Middler class, spent most of the evening on the festivities that accompanied Internship Assignment Day. We had a small gathering amongst the Middlers with BYObeverages in Fritschel, which was fantastic – it was wonderful to see everyone pulling together and [...]
Done with the semester
I finally got my last paper done and printed today. That means I’m officially done with my third semester at Wartburg, and that means that I am officially halfway through the (academic) work for my M.Div.! Just three more semesters of school and a year-long internship to go…