Amy Carr is Professor of Religious Studies at Western Illinois University.
What Makes for a Theological Vocation in the ELCA?
August/September 2020: Women’s Leadership in the Church, State, and Academy (Volume 20 Issue 5)
[1] As a theologian who teaches religious studies at a public university, I hesitated to contribute to a question about the role of women’s leadership in the Lutheran academy in the U.S. I comfortably identify as a Lutheran theologian who works alongside two wonderful religious studies colleagues, both women, one specializing in Asian religions and […]
Theological Touchstones for Disagreeing in the Body of Christ
October/November 2019: The Ethics of Dialogue and Debate (Volume 19 Issue 5)
[1] Martin Luther wrote his Small Catechism after traveling and observing how little of Christian teaching most people knew. Four hundred years later, one of us (Amy) had a Missouri Synod Lutheran grandmother who was not permitted to move from lower to upper Michigan with the rest of her family until she had finished memorizing the Small […]