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Richard Priggie

Richard Priggie

College Chaplain

Augustana College

Richard Priggie is a campus chaplain at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Along with a planning committee representing various ELCA colleges and universities, he co-organized the first Interfaith Understanding Conference for ELCA Colleges and Universities, June 1-3, 2014, at Augustana College.

Published Articles

Editorial

Guest Editorial

Kristen Glass Perez, Richard Priggie

No. 40 · Fall 2014

Glass Perez and Priggie introduce the issue by recounting the campus conversations and the June 2014 Interfaith Understanding Conference at Augustana College that gave rise to it, framing the central question, “What does it mean to be Interfaith at a Lutheran College?,” as a living example of the praxis of being a Lutheran college in the twenty-first century.
Reflection

John 3:16-17

Richard Priggie

No. 27 · Spring 2008

Preached at the Vocation of the Lutheran College conference in August 2007, Priggie’s sermon on John 3:16-17 reads the Greek word “cosmos” as evidence that “God was into globalism long before we were” and calls Lutheran colleges to embrace Matthew Fox’s “deep ecumenism” — an embrace of and care for all created things. Drawing on J.B. Philipps’s Your God Is Too Small and the movie Pleasantville, he invites his hearers to come to Rock Island in order to leave Rock Island, to be Christian in order to be more than Christian, and to find the places where the roads don’t go in a circle but just keep going.

Richard Priggie

Published Articles

Guest Editorial

John 3:16-17