Terrific Book of Thoughts and Reflections by Dr. Karl Barth

Please check out this book of personal reflections and thoughts by Dr. Karl Barth.

President Emeritus Karl Barth
publishes "blog" book

Reprinted from the South Wisconsin District News
Used with permission
By Jan Brunow (Immanuel, Brookfield)

A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for the general public. When Rev. Dr. Karl L. Barth began his musings, blogs were just gaining popularity.

Last fall he decided it was time to fine tune the many short commentaries he had written over the years and put them together in a volume to be published for others to read. He decided on the contemporary title “Just a Chip Off the Old Blog.”

“I know it isn’t a blog in the true sense of the word,” Barth said, “but I wanted the Christian community and other readers to gain a nugget or two that would be helpful for their spiritual journey.”

After months of editing, proofreading, seeking and finding a printer/publisher, the book has been published and is for sale. It can be purchased at the bookstore at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon and at Northwestern Publishing’s retail store in Wauwatosa. The cost is $14.95.

The book contains short essays on people, places and events written from 1998-2006.

The people mentioned are as diverse as President Theodore Roosevelt and NBA Hall of Famer George Mikan. Sophia Lauren is discussed, as are the members of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. Some pages will give the reader a look at life in a Cincinnati parochial grade school; others tell about what goes on in a small village in the Alps above Montreux, Switzerland.

Many of the pieces, especially the earlier ones, have to do with Christian doctrine, worship and life; and some are directed primarily to the Christian pastor and his office.

Barth also includes a few family references to his father's ministry and also to both sets of his grandparents. “But,” he says, ”central to all we do, say or think is the mercy of the triune God, our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier.”

From 1970-82, Barth was president of the South Wisconsin District. In 1975 he was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree by Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Ill. He served as president of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., from 1982-90.

Comments

[Elephantschild]

Rev. Dr. Barth was a fill-in pastor on occasion at the Milwaukee area church that my husband and I were married at. We often wished we could clone the man and sprinkle his clones generously all across the synod.

We look forward to reading his book!