Tag: ELCA
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 4
Saturday, September 23 Marburg Castle The next morning we drove up to the Marburg Castle north of Frankfurt. In 1529 Luther met at the castle with other Protestant reformers including Ulrich Zwinglii to hash out their differences. Then as now, they weren’t able to do it. The castle, of course, is spectacular. It sits on…
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 3
Friday, September 22 At dawn I jumped into the car and drove out to the vineyards and up a hill overlooking Edesheim. Like the fairytales, morning fog surrounded the town. As the sun came up, it quickly burned off revealing the church steeple backed by rolling hills and high mountains in the background. If I…
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Opening The Door to Luther Production Blog Day 1
Wednesday, September 20 Traveling alone, I set off for a visit to Lutherland. The purpose of the trip is to produce a documentary on the life of Martin Luther in the German reformation cities of Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisleben Coburg and Wittenberg. Martin Luther, of course, was the 16th century Augustinian monk who sparked the Protestant…
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Her Words Took Wing: Caronline Iverson Ackerman
This short documentary about Caroline Iverson Ackerman was produced in 1995 for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The following biography is from the Harvard University Library Papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman. Caroline Iverson Ackerman was born in 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Jacob Engval and Ella Dorothea (Schmidt) Iverson.…