Title: ELCA Seminary Professors are 'Day 1' Preachers on Palm Sunday, Easter ELCA NEWS SERVICE
March 5, 2008
ELCA Seminary Professors are 'Day 1' Preachers on Palm Sunday, Easter 08-025-FI
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Two seminary professors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will deliver the Palm Sunday and Easter messages on "Day 1," a nationally broadcast radio program. The Rev. David J. Lose and the Rev. Mary Hinkle Shore are on the faculty of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., one of eight ELCA seminaries.
Lose, academic dean and the Marbury E. Anderson chair in biblical preaching, will be the speaker March 17, Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, and March 30. Shore, associate dean for first theological degree programs and associate professor of New Testament, will be the speaker March 23, Easter.
"It's not supposed to end this way -- Jesus' story, I mean," Lose says in his Passion Sunday sermon, "From Riches to Rags." "Deep down, maybe, we knew there'd be trouble. After all, Jesus had been causing trouble and making enemies his whole life, but we never expected this -- the shame, the pain, the utter helplessness, even failure," he says. Lose explores the week before Christ's crucifixion and what meaning it holds for today.
Shore's Easter message, "The Insecure Tomb," examines the security issues of Jesus' day, explaining that the world is still filled with insecurity. "Do not be afraid. The tomb that is no longer secure in this earthquake is your own," Shore says. "Your life and your security are where they have always been, hid with Christ, in God. And, brothers and sisters, Christ is risen!"
Lose looks at "Realities Old and New" in his March 30 sermon.
The program's host and executive producer, Peter Wallace, conducts an interview with the guest preacher during each program.
"Day 1" has been broadcast every week for 62 years, formerly as "The Protestant Hour." It is produced by the Alliance for Christian Media in association with the ELCA, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Church of Christ. -- -- --
"Day 1" broadcasts are available by streaming audio and podcast at http://www.Day1.net on the Web.
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John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog