"Grace Matters"--the radio ministry of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

 

Listen to "Grace Matters" every Sunday

at 7:00am on Brenham KWHI-1280AM

 

November 2   Stormey Denise Burroughs - Avoiding an Itsy Bitsy Life

The life of a refuge is never easy.  Fleeing persecution or life-threatening circumstances in one's own country to find a home elsewhere is next to impossible.  Post 9/11 jitters and restrictions in America make the U.S. even less open to immigrants and refugees.  Along comes Stormey Denise Burroughs, a young single mothers and social worker in Michigan.  She takes it upon herself to become the loving foster mother to four teenage boys from Burma.

November 9   Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Responsibility for Your Neighbor

Since her childhood, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has made a point of trying to put other people first.  As the eldest child of Robert & Ethel Kennedy, she assumed an early sense of responsibility for what it means to be civically engaged on behalf of those for whom the systems of justice do not work well.  One-time lieutenant governor of Maryland, Kennedy Townsend has a marvelous way of letting her Christian faith inform her commitment to stand up for all who live on the margins of society.

               

November 16   Everett Worthington - A Lesson in Humility

Everett Worthington is a soft- spoken and gentle man.  Professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Everett gets to teach about forgiveness, reconciliation and a host of other fascinating subjects.  A personally tragic experience - the murder of his mother in the mid-1990s - caused Worthington to examine forgiveness in a whole new way.  What he discovered was a fresh priority for the place of humility in shaping one's life.

 

November 23   Phyllis Tickle - the Sayings of Jesus

After spending a life immersed in scholarship with Scripture, Phyllis Tickle determined that faith and humility were often left behind among those who study the words of Jesus.  She embarked on a thoughtful journey to analyze the different ways that Jesus of Nazareth typically spoke.  Five different speaking roles of Jesus surfaced from her work.  In this edition of Grace Matters, she discusses some of the interesting twists and turns that Jesus took with his words.

 

November 30   Advent/Meditation - A Conversation with Maximilian Kolbe

In the first of a four-part Advent series, host Peter Marty converses with different guests who could not be present for an interview.  Each week, the conversation involves one of the great saints of the church.  Maximilian Kolbe is this week's guest.  He is the Polish priest who voluntarily took the place of another prisoner at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp when Nazi commanders arbitrarily selected tem prisoners for forced starvation.