Gracia Grindal is Professor of Rhetoric at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Daniel Rice’s Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original
May/June 2011: Interfaith (Volume 11 Issue 3)
[1] To read Reinhold Niebuhr is pure pleasure; to read his disciples less so. The book, with a forward by Martin Marty and an introduction by Daniel F. Rice, seeks, as the title says, to revisit and engage with our greatest public intellectual of the twentieth century. Given that as an ethicist, Niebuhr’s applications are […]
We Would See Jesus, not You
August 2009 (Volume 9 Issue 8)
[1] People who do not realize that their choices reveal their character think they have a choice as to whether or not to be self-disclosing. They don’t. Character is revealed by choice; as Aristotle says in his Poetics, we reveal ourselves in every choice we make from what we say, what we choose to wear, […]
Politics in the Pulpit
December 2005: Preaching and Politics (Volume 5 Issue 12)
[1] As the old salt Henry Horn once said to a class here at Luther Seminary: Preach the Word of God in the service, and then during the adult forum there can be political talk. The same sermon will very likely propel a full panoply of political opinions in the congregation. God is working, but […]