Kurt Struckmeyer
Writer and theologian in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Kurt Struckmeyer
Writer and theologian in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Kurt Struckmeyer is an artist, writer, theologian, and the founder of the Mustard Seed School of Theology.
He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri in the aftermath of war. His youth was shaped by the decades of the conformist fifties and the contentious sixties. At the age of twelve, he discovered a radical and passionate Jesus in the gospels and responded to his call to “follow me.” Four years later, Kurt read "The Cost of Discipleship" by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The two martyrs—Jesus and Bonhoeffer—had launched the trajectory of his life.
After graduating from the Washington University School of Fine Art in 1969, Kurt pursued a varied career at the General Motors Design Center in Warren, Michigan. For over 35 years, he worked as a sculptor, digital technician, process and technology planner, business strategist, historian, speechwriter, and visual communicator, serving under every vice president of the Design Center except its founder Harley Earl prior to his retirement in 2005.
Kurt now lives in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Today, he spends much of his time in study and writing.
In 2008, he was asked to write a history of automotive design at General Motors titled "Driving Style: GM Design’s First Century."
In 2004, under the umbrella of the Mustard Seed School of Theology, he launched the website “Following Jesus :: a life of faith in a postmodern world.”
He later added a blog where he posts occasionally.
https://followingjesus.org/myblog/
He also posts original memes on a daily basis with quotes from followers of Jesus on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/followingjesus.org/
Wipf & Stock Publishers has published four of Kurt's books.
"A Conspiracy of Love: Following Jesus in a Postmodern World" presents the contours of a postmodern faith based on the way of Jesus in contemporary society.
"An Unorthodox Faith: a New Reformation for a Postmodern World" calls for a postmodern reformation of fourth-century doctrines with a simple theology and ethic of God as love.
"People of the Way: Passion and Resistance in a Postmodern World" outlines a future for followers of Jesus through small activist communities that are dedicated to selfless service, peace, and social justice.
“Justice at the Margins: Jesus' Parables of Defiance and Disruption” proposes that the parables of Jesus were intended to show his listeners that the way the kingdom of God operates is not what we expect.