Mark D Williamson's Page

Each fall a different set of students from Wheaton College (sometimes called the “Evangelical Harvard”) comes to study us at St. Paul Lutheran Church because of our “open and affirming” stance toward gays and lesbians. Needless to say, we offer the minority report on this matter in socially conservative Wheaton, so naturally we provide a valuable service for students needing to track down “the other side” for their research papers. (I do wish they would visit us more often for non-homework…See More

Sounds a little like comic book hero, doesn’t it? But, no, I‘m referring to the featured dialogue partner of the recent 2009 Emergent Theological Conversation, Jürgen Moltmann, who, from my impressions of the event, appears to be gaining a significant audience within that ever-so-hard to pin down movement called the Emerging Church.This is an exciting development because as influential as Moltmann has been for a whole host of academic theologians and church professionals, I have the vague sense…See More