Scholardarity

Artists have finished the stage sets for our musical: three barrels, for the nuns to jump out of, a fish wagon, hobby horses for the knights, who kidnap Luther - hopefully they are not too funny - monastery walls and church doors. Check out the door! We'll have to video our actors ridingthe hobby horses! The artists riding them has everybody laughing. Here are the doors:

The performances of theLuther Musical are coming up fast! Mark just blocked the whole script. That means he worked out what aisle every actor comes in, where they stand and move on the stage, what they have to take with them and what they have to take back, so that we don't need grips. Orchard Supply has agreed to lend us wooden barrels, which will make it possible to have a barrel decor. Tickets are selling for each performance! Isn't that great!

Check out my book review of Volker Leppin's, The Strange Reformation: Luther's Mystical Roots, which I read in German. I included many of my own insights, which I launched from his ideas. http://www.scholardarity.com/?page_id=4774

Three Luther Musical Performances at PLTS! Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, which is located at 2000 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, has agreed to be the venue for our up-coming production of the Luther Musical. We will have performances on Saturday November 18th at 7pm and Sunday November 19th at 3pm and 7pm. Mark and I are operating on faith, but faith is the power of God working through us, so watch it happen!

Dear followers of Scholardarity, we used to have 400 hits a day on this website when Jason was helping me. Now it no longer records statistics, but back in February, 2017 we had over 394,000 hits. Recently, I have only been posting my sermons and that in peterkrey.wordpress.com. They do develop my theology further with my recent insights. Check out the latest sermon, "The Invisible Disaster," (the one greater than experienced in Texas). I've been working on the book reviews of two German books which I just read. The first is by Volker Leppin. To translate the title: The Strange Reformation: Luther's Mystical Roots. The other by Volker Reinhardt, Luther, the Heretic: Rome and the Reformation. I had to return the second one to the library, but I'm almost finished with the first one.

In our Scholardarity Diablog I wrote about the theory of the Nephilim, the Giants in the earth. I checked out all the biblical passages and came to a very different interpretation. Check it out, The Nephilim: http://www.scholardarity.com/?page_id=4763

As the administrator of Scholardarity, it has been hard for me to post items, because I always seem to put them in the wrong way. Jason used to always do the posting. But yesterday I put in Nathaniel's new Sci-Fi story. It's well worth a read. And then I put in the url for our Luther Musical performance at St. Paulus of June 17th. But the third item is a study of Spanish music and culture via singing coritos. I did the study in 1989 and had to restore it from 5 and 1/4 inch floppies. It took a whole week, but it was a labor of love and Anglo's struggling with Spanish music and Spanish language services and even Latinos should get a whole lot out of it. It begins with the coritos we used to sing and with some of which I translated into English. I would love feedback!

On Reformation Sunday last year Mark inspired one and all by singing the Justification Song from the new Luther Musical by Mark and Peter Krey. It has 27 songs, counting the Finale of Act One and the Overture of Act Two. The song has Luther's own words when he described his justification experience later in his life. http://www.scholardarity.com/?p=4711

The writing of this story needs work, but the futuristic insights make it worthwhile reading. Taking a Stand: a New SyFy Story by Nathaniel Bates http://www.scholardarity.com/?p=4700

Mark finished the first three staff music sheet and that is for the song "Mendicant Monks." He placed the vocal staff above the two staffs of piano accompaniment and did a first and second ending. Finale as a music program is not too user-friendly, but he did it. Before you know it we will have all the sheet music ready.

In Scholardarity I published a book of mine that goes back to 1993. I've revised it several times, because I had just entered graduate school from sixteen years of really rough ministry in Coney Island, New York. So it is really about the school of hard nocks, what Luther called the Schola scheola - the school of hell, which Joseph had to go through because he was "sold down the river" by his brothers into slavery, thrown down into a dungeon because of the false witness of a ...woman, etc., really being prepared by God for his role in God's plan of salvation. I call the book, Word of God, Theology of the Cross, Language of God: Luther's Commentary on the Joseph Narrative. I had not read the Luther scholars, Ebeling and Bayer as yet, nor had I taken John Searle's course in Performative Language, which did not stop me from making many correlations and extrapolating for us: Christ is the Word of God, we are Words of God and the "vocabulary" in the language of God. If I would not be working on our Luther Musical, I would try to publish it like the books that have just come out by my brother Philip and me. See more

In the Inner Game of Tennis, Gallwey writes about how athletes sometimes get into the zone in their physical performance. What would it be like to get into the zone intellectually? Was Luther's justification experience by faith getting into the zone spiritually? Check out my book review and all the surprising correlations of Gallwey's thought with Luther's theology: Getting into the Zone and Luther's Justification Experience http://www.scholardarity.com/?p=4689