Mark's Notebook


	If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him. - Thomas Carlyle

Obituary

Wednesday 19 October 2005, 5:53 pm
Keywords: Christian Topics , News Articles

Died: Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, voice of "The Lutheran Hour" radio show from 1955 to 1988, on September 8 in St. Louis after a brief illness. He was 91. Hoffmann represented the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod at the Second Vatican Council and served as North American chairman for the 1974 World Congress on Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland. He served on the board of Christianity Today International from 1981 to 2000.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/011/7.22.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/18hoffmann.html

http://www.lhm.org/lhmint/estorypreview.asp?articleid=4146

(He was the father of Paul Hoffmann, who serves at Holy Cross Lutheran Church of Los Gatos, California, the church where I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's. -- Mark)