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Pastor’s Online Writings, Interviews, Recommended Links, Etc.

PASTOR ANDRÆ’S ONLINE ARTICLES, LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, ETC. [RECOMMENDED LINKS AND APPS FOLLOW BELOW]:

[These are only those that are available on the web; for a full listing of Pastor Andræ’s publications, presentations, and interviews, you can request his CV via EricAndrae@gmail.com. Unless otherwise indicated, all entries are print versions.  Some entries appear more than once, due to overlapping categories. Pastor Andræ normally appears on the first Wednesday of each month on WORD-FM’s “The Ride Home with John and Kahty;” these shows are archived for approximately three months at http://www.wordfm.com/ContentPages/4784/]

Campus Ministry –

“’What is Truth?’” Campus Ministry in a Post-Modern Culture” (Lutheran Theological Review XVII, 2004-05:7).

“The Shepherd Lives, Amen!” (homily at Higher Things youth conference, Scranton, Penn., June 2006).

“A Campus Pastor’s Perspective on the Virginia Tech Shootings” (interview on Issues, Etc., 17 April 2007, AUDIO).

“On Glory, Suffering, and the Cross” (Originally in The Blog of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, 11 November 2008).

“How does God talk and how do I speak with him?” (bi-lingual Bonhoeffer paper presented at Corpus Christi youth conference, Varberg, Sweden; June 2009, AUDIO).

“Many Members, One Body:  The Communion of the Holy Spirit through Pittsburgh’s Campus Mission” (for LCMSU, June 2013).

“Faith, Film, and the University” (interview, along with Russ Lucas, on the KFUO-AM show, “Faith ‘n’ Family,” 27 August 2013, AUDIO)

“Urban Campus Ministry” (interview on the KFUO-AM show, “His Time,” 28 October 2014, AUDIO; under #2 – “Tuesday’s Ministry Highlight”)

Beginning in November 2001, The Pittsburgh Lutheran has featured articles by Pastor Andrae in nearly every issue:  go to PALMPA.org and click on “The Pittsburgh Lutheran” on the left-hand side menu.  The articles are usually found near the middle of the publication.

20th Century Theologians –

Pro Deo et Patria: Themes of the Cruciform Life in Dietrich Bonhoeffer” (Concordia Theological Quarterly 72:1, January 2008:71).

“How does God talk and how do I speak with him?” (bi-lingual Dietrich Bonhoeffer paper presented at Corpus Christi youth conference, Varberg, Sweden, June 2009, AUDIO).

“Authentic Life Together in the 21st Century as the Concrete Experience of an Eternal Gift” (Bonhoeffer paper delivered at Eastern District pastors’ conference, Fall 2010).

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works: A Review Essay” (Concordia Journal 37:4, Fall 2011:323).

“Reflections on the Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” (radio interview on WMHR-FM, Syracuse, August – September 2016).

“Was Bo Giertz a Pietist? Bishop Giertz and the Order of Grace(Logia IX:4, Reformation 2000:29).

Review of The Hammer of God (Projekt Runeberg, 12 June 2003).

“20th Century Lutheran Theologian Bo Giertz” (Issues, Etc., 26 April 2005, AUDIO).

Life by Drowning: Enlightenment through Law and Gospel by Bo Giertz (translation, 2008).

“Be Not Discouraged” by Bo Giertz (translation, Logia VIII:2, Eastertide 2009:54).

“Pietism According to Bo Giertz” (Lutheran Forum online, 25 January 2010).

“‘The best treatment of the proper distinction of law and gospel in the history of Lutheran theology:’ A Historical and Systematic Overview” (paper on Giertz’s The Hammer of God presented at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Canada, 7 June 2011; AUDIO.  The printed version is published in LTR [see below]).

“‘The best treatment of the proper distinction of law and gospel in the history of Lutheran theology:’ A Historical and Systematic Overview” (paper on Giertz’s The Hammer of God presented at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Canada, 7 June 2011; VIDEO. The printed version is published in LTR [see below]).

“High Mass Without Communion, Part Deux (or Del Två)” (Giertz’s p.o.v., 17 June 2011).

“‘The best treatment of the proper distinction of law and gospel in the history of Lutheran theology:’ A Historical and Systematic Overview” (paper on Giertz’s The Hammer of God in Lutheran Theological Review XXIV, 2012:7).

“Walther and Giertz:  Law and Gospel Distinguished / But to How Many Applied?” (The Blog of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, 13 June 2012). For a greatly revised and expanded version of this essay, listen to the lecture “‘Awake, O Sleeper!’ – Bo Giertz Proclaims the Word” (paper presented at the first annual St. Mark’s Conference, Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Baltimore, 25 April 2016; AUDIO).

“Gustaf Wingren’s Confession of the Doctrine of Creation for an Understanding of Vocation and Sanctification” (Logia XI:3, Holy Trinity 2002:29).

Sweden –

“NELA 2002 Symposium” (Logia XII:1, Epiphany 2003:68).

“Feast of Gustavus Adolphus, King and Martyr, 1632” (homily at First Trinity Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Penn., 6 November 2003).

“Christianity in Sweden” (Issues, Etc., 22 May 2006, AUDIO).

“The Hero?!  Pär Lagerkvist’s Barabbas (Concordia Journal 34:1,2; January-April 2008:49).

“Swedish Lutheranism as Autobiography, or a Personalized and Whirlwind Tour of Its Past and the Present” (paper presented at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Canada, 7 June 2011; AUDIO).

“Swedish Lutheranism as Autobiography, or a Personalized and Whirlwind Tour of Its Past and the Present” (paper presented at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Canada, 7 June 2011; VIDEO).

Raoul Wallenberg – A Swedish Lutheran Who Sheltered Jews During the Holocaust” (interview of KFUO’s “Issues, Etc.,” 6 Sept. 2013; AUDIO)

Culture –

“TV Shows on the Occult” (Issues, Etc., 21 July 2003, AUDIO).

“The Exploitation of Sex” (Issues, Etc., 20 November 2003, AUDIO).

“Christians & Cartoons” (interview on Issues, Etc., 4 February 2004, AUDIO).

“Reality TV” (Issues, Etc., 14 September 2004, AUDIO).

“Homosexuality: Not Gay and Not Biblical” (Higher Things Winter 2008, 26-27).

“Homosexuality: Not Gay and Not Biblical” (Issues, Etc., 14 January 2009, AUDIO interview).

“Christians and Pop Music” (Issues, Etc. 4 March 2015, AUDIO).

The Gospel Songs of Johnny Cash” (Christ and Culture Podcast, 22 April 2015, AUDIO).

A Pastoral Conversation on Homosexuality” (Christ and Culture Podcast, 6 May 2015, AUDIO).

“The Life and Faith of Elvis Presley” (Christ and Culture Podcast, 26 May 2015, AUDIO).

Preaching –

“Feast of Gustavus Adolphus, King and Martyr, 1632” (homily at First Trinity Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Penn., 6 November 2003).

“The Shepherd Lives, Amen!” (homily at Higher Things youth conference, Scranton, Penn., June 2006).

“On Glory, Suffering, and the Cross” (originally appeared on Logia‘s blog, 11 November 2008).

“Poor Vision” (sermon at closing worship of national Lutheran Services in America conference, Pittsburgh, Penn., 19 April 2012).

Reformers –

“The Critical Issues of the Reformation and the Heritage of Augustine: A Study in the Augustine-Reception of Martin Chemnitz by Torbjörn Johansson” (review in Logia XIII:3, Holy Trinity 2003:56).

“Martin Luther: Brief Biography as Introductory Theology” (lecture at First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Penn., 3 June 2009, VIDEO).

Letters to the Editor –

“Only a theory” (re. evolution, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10 November 2000).

“The just-war doctrine” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 April 2003).

“Assuaging his fears” (re. use of the chalice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 January 2004).

“Not those Lutherans” (re. homosexuality, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 October 2009).

“Those asking for tolerance must themselves be tolerant” (re. religious freedom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 January 2015).

Personal –

“Why I like Pittsburgh” (WYEP 91.3’s summer music festival, 25 June 2010, VIDEO interview).

OTHER LINKS

RECOMMENDED APPS

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  • Bible (You Version)
  • Issues Etc.
  • KFUO
  • LCMS
  • Concordia Triglotta (The Book of Concord: The Lutheran Confessions)
  • Martin Luther’s Small Catechism by CPH
  • Pray Now
  • Concordia Seminary’s “Conversations on the Catechism” [iTunes U]