retirement

News

Gay bishop 'retiring' to build bridges in D.C.

Nov 26, 2012 by G. Jeffrey MacDonald

When V. Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in 2003, it triggered shock waves and fears of schism across the worldwide Anglican Communion. Hundreds of parishes left the Episcopal Church in protest.

Editor's Desk

Beginnings and endings

Jan 25, 2012 by John M. Buchanan

After 48 years as a minister of word and sacrament, I will retire at the end of January.

Books

Lessons in retirement

 A "beginner’s diary"

Apr 12, 2000 by Jerry K. Robbins

Taking Retirement: A Beginner's Diary, by Carl H. Klaus

Are you old?” a little boy asked as he popped up in the pool beside me. Hoping that his vision merely had been blurred by the spray and not wanting to admit my age, I tossed off his question by replying, “I didn’t think my backstroke was that bad.” He paddled away muttering, “You must be crazy.”

News

Pension fight stirs moral issues for ELCA, publisher

Aug 16, 2010 by G. Jeffrey MacDonald

As the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America fights to stay out of a legal battle over unpaid pension benefits, all sides agree on at least one point: more is at stake than millions of dollars owed to some 500 pensioners of Augsburg Fortress, the ELCA's publishing arm.

Books

Called for Life: Finding Meaning in Retirement

Paul C. Clayton

Called for Life: Finding Meaning in Retirement

Dec 16, 2008 reviewed by John A. Esau
Titles with ambiguity are invitational. They encourage us to ponder possibilities. They invite us into the pages of a book in the search for resolution.
M.E.M.O.

The road taken

Marty's final column
Aug 26, 2008 by Martin E. Marty
At age 12, when I still thought I was or would be or could be a poet, John G. Neihardt figured large in my imagination. For 50-plus years he was Nebraska’s poet laureate. He began his editing and writing career in a cottage—really a shack—at the edge of the Omaha Indian reservation, 12 miles from where I grew up.
Features

Social insecurity

Linking retirement and personal responsibility
Feb 12, 2008
One of the greatest fruits of high productivity and rising incomes in a country like the U.S. is the financial ability people have to retire. This possibility was beyond the imagination of pre–World War II workers and is still far beyond the expectations of most people living in Third World countries.