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Charles Amjad-Ali
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor for Justice and Christian Community

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)

Paul S. Berge
Professor Emeritus
New Testament

• Studies in Paul: Galatians, Philippians
• Studies in the Gospel, or Letters of John
• Studies in the Synoptics: Matthew, Mark, or Luke
• The New Testament is the Church's Book

James L. Boyce
Professor of New Testament

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Arab and Jew in the Holy Land
• Archeology and the Bible/ Archeology in the Holy Land
• Bible Study, esp. Matthew, Luke John Acts, Galatians, I Corinthians, James
• Historical Setting and/or Backgrounds of New Testament
• How the Bible Came to Us/Authority and Canon of the Bible
• How? and Why? Reading the Scriptures
• The Holy Land/Jerusalem
• The Shaping of a Reformer: Martin Luther on Romans  (1-6 sessions)
• When the Fire Goes Out, What Then? Bible Study on James  (1-6 sessions)
• Windows of Faith: The Early Church in its New Testament Setting  (1-6 sessions)

Robert M. Brusic
Seminary Pastor Emeritus

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Bible Study on Assigned Texts
• Hymn Sings on Various Topics
• Issues in Inclusive Language
• Landscape and Its Effect on Memory and Faith
• Liturgy and the Church Year
• Presenting and Interpreting the Seminary
• Spirituality and Prayer Life
• The Detective Story and its Pertinence for Christians
• Varieties of Lutheran Pieties

Paul A. Daniels
Archivist/Curator

• Artifact Exhibition and Interpretation
• Creating a Useful Congregational Archive
• Luther Seminary's Mission Heritage Collection: Using Artifacts To Understand Global Mission Efforts
• Planning Your Congregation's Anniversary Celebration
• Preservation Issues in Congregational Archives
• Publishing Your Church's History
• Using History as the Basis for Mission Planning
• Using History to Enrich Congregational Life

David E. Fredrickson
Professor of New Testament

• Ethics of Sexuality in the New Testament
• Images of God
• Paul and Politics
• Philippians  (1-4 sessions)
• The Gospel of Luke

Wendell Frerichs
Professor Emeritus
Old Testament

• Christians and Jews
• Daniel and the Apocolypse
• Jeremiah
• Job
• Praying with the Bible
• Psalms (with special focus on the Laments)
• The Bible and Aging

Terence E. Fretheim
Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament

• Creation and Law
• Genesis 1-11
• God and Suffering
• Images of God
• Justice and Judgement
• Old Testament
• Prayer
• Prophecy and the Future

Frederick J. Gaiser
Professor of Old Testament
Editor of Word & World

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Authority of the Bible
• Biblical Preaching
• Biblical Theology of the Land
• Creation/Environment
• Evil in the Bible
• Healing in the Bible
• Isaiah 40-66
• Old Testament Prophecy
• Prayer in Biblical Perspective
• Preaching from the Old Testament
• Psalms/Old Testament Worship
• The Bible and Stewardship
• The Human in the Bible

Mary Jane Haemig
Associate Professor of Church History
Director of the Thrivent Reformation Research Program

• Advent: The Season and its Celebrations
• Christians and Politics: A Lutheran Perspective
• Luther's Catechisms: Good News for Today
• Luther's Catechisms: History and Use
• Martin Luther and Prayer
• Martin Luther and Preaching
• Martin Luther and the Bible
• Martin Luther as a Translator and Interpreter of the Bible
• Martin Luther: The Man & His Work
• What is the Church?

Loren Halvorson
Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology & Ministry

• Base Christian Community
• Spirituality and Social Justice
• The Church and Public Life
• The Ministry of the Laity

Kathleen G. Hansen
Vice President for Seminary Relations; Executive Director of the Luther Seminary Foundation

• Establishing and Marketing a Congregational Endowment Fund
• Faces of Hope: A Luther Seminary Update
• Stewardship in Your Congregation

Sarah S. Henrich
Professor of New Testament

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• A Look at Ecology
• How to Use the Bible in Moral Deliberation
• Interpreting the Bible
• Judaism in New Testament Times
• Life in New Testament Times
• Paul's Letters
• The Bible and Art
• The Book of Acts
• The Family
• The Gospel of Luke
• Women in the Bible
• Worship

Arland J. Hultgren
Asher O. and Carrie Nasby Professor of New Testament

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Gospels that Didn't Make it into our Bibles
• Jesus in the Gospels of Thomas and Judas
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
• Paul and His Letters
• Perspectives on the Passion
• Recent Views of Jesus
• The Parables of Jesus

Diane L. Jacobson
Professor of Old Testament
Director of the Book of Faith Initiative for the ELCA

• Law in the Old Testament
• The Book of Exodus
• The Book of Psalms
• The Creation
• The Figure of Woman Wisdom and the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiates
• Women in the Old Testament

Patrick R. Keifert
Professor of Systematic Theology

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Congregational Studies and Mission
• Doctrine of the Church
• Lay Leadership Development
• Long Range Planning
• Visioning

Craig R. Koester
Professor of New Testament

• The Apolalypse Now: A Study of Revelation
• The Death and Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of John
• The History of Jerusalem from Biblical Times to the Present
• The Word of Life: A Study of John's Gospel

Nancy Koester
Affiliated Faculty
Adjunct Instructor of Church History

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Abraham Lincoln
• African American Christianity Before the Civil War
• Bible Studies on the Parables in the Gospel of Matthew
• Christianity in America (can focus on a number of topics)
• Funamentalism, Social Gospel, Pentecostalism, Mormonism
• Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin

Dirk G. Lange
Associate Professor of Worship

• Ecumenism
• Luther on Worship
• Spirituality
• Taize
• Worship/Daily Prayer (communal)
• Worship/Daily Prayer (individual)

Karoline Lewis
Assistant Professor of Preaching

• Bible Basics
• Christmas in John's Gospel
• How the Bible Came to Be
• How to Read the Bible
• John's Story of Jesus
• Paul's Letters
• Samaritans and a Savior: One Woman's Encounter with Jesus
• The Bible as the Word of God
• The Book of Revelation
• The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts
• The Gospel According to Luke
• The Gospel According to Mark
• Translating the Bible: What Bible Should I Read?

Rodney C. Maeker
Associate Director
Contextual Leadership Initiative (Cross-Cultural Education)

• Cross-Cultural Ministry -- Who Needs It?
• Mission and Intercultural Communication
• Our Mission in a World of Many Cultures
• Racism: What Are We Really Dealing with Here?
• The Art of Crossing Cultures
• Why Cross-Cultural Education

Randolph A. Nelson
Director of Contextual Education
Melvin A. Hammarberg Professor of Contextual Education

• A Christian Looks at ... (specific social issues)
• Introduction to Social Ministry and Social Ethics
• The Church and Politics

Richard W. Nysse
Professor of Old Testament

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Creation in Biblical Hymns
• Daniel
• God and War in the Old Testament
• Law and Gospel: Old Testament Perprectives
• Psalm 23
• Songs of Pain and Songs of Praise: The Psalms and Country Music.
• The Biblical Text: Which Bible is Best?
• The Commandments in Biblical Perspective
• The Dark Side of God in the Bible
• The Experience of Exile and Restoration: Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

Alan G. Padgett
Professor of Systematic Theology

• Genetics and Christian Ethics
• Issues in Evangelical Theology Today
• John Wesley and Methodist Theology
• Prayer and Spirituality
• Scripture and Science

Steven D. Paulson
Professor of Systematic Theology

• God's Hiding Places: How God Hides -- Why and Where
• Luther's Three Dramatic Days: His Marriage, Trial, and Death
• My Favorite Heretics: Who They Are and Why They Keep Coming Back

Gerry Rafftery
Philanthropic Adviser
Seminary Relations

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Common Threads of Healthy Congregations
• Establishing Endowment Funds
• Estate Planning for Christians
• Stewardship

Janet Ramsey
Pastor George Wienman Chair of Pastoral Theology and Ministry

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Aging & Spiritual Resiliency
• Aging, Sexuality and Christian Faith
• Facilitating Caring Congregations
• Issues in Caregiving: Caregiving and Spiritual Resiliency
• Stepfamilies -- Challenges, Resources & Faith Issues
• Women, Aging and Faith

Michael Rogness
Alvin N. Rogness Professor of Preaching

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• A Look at the Lutheran Confessions
• Angels Around Us
• Are You Really "Born Again?"  (1-3 sessions)
• How to Listen to a Sermon
• Martin Luther as a Preacher
• Recalling the Catechism
• Seeing the Gospel in TV and Movies
• The Church's Part in New Central Europe
• The ELCA and the Eccumenical Movement  (1-3 sessions)
• The Gospel Through Stories
• What is a Lutheran?  (1-3 sessions)

Robert Paul Roth
Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology

• Death and Resurrection  (3 sessions)
• Ethics in the Business World
• Opening the Door of the China Closet -- China Awakes
• Story and Reality -- The Gospel Is a Story

Christian Scharen
Assistant Professor of Worship and Theology

• Faith and Popular Culture (esp. Music)
• Faith as a Way of Life
• Faith in a Secular Age
• Human Sexuality: Marriage and Debates over Gay Marriage in Church and Society
• Streams of Innovation in Worship
• The Citizenship Formed in Worship

Peter A. Sethre
Director Emeritus of Continuing Education

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Apocalyptic Writing
• De-mythologizing Christmas: An Honest Look at the Christmas Story
• The Book of Daniel
• The Book of James
• The Struggle in the Middle East: Why Can't Jews and Arabs Get Along and Why Should We Care?

Gary M. Simpson
Professor of Systematic Theology

• Bio-Genetic Ethics and the Big Questions of Life
• Bonhoeffer for Today
• Faith and American Public Life
• Faith and Public Policy
• Foundations of Christian Ethics
• Foundations of Lutheran Ethics
• Homosexuality: Tradtional and Current Ethical Assessments
• How Is and Isn't America a "Christian Nation?"
• Is There a Lutheran Ethic of Marriage?
• Jesus Today: Who Do Contemporary Theologians Say He Is?
• Luther and Spirituality
• Luther's Catechism and Today's Questions
• Matters of Faith and Politics
• Praying the Christian Life
• Reformation Theology: Then and Now
• Trinity Matters Today
• What is the Church? Current Ecumenical Perspectives and Why They Matter

Daniel J. Simundson
Professor Emeritus of Old Testament

• Five Seldom Used Gems From the Bible: Ruth, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations and Esther
• Four Not So Minor Prophets: Hosea, Amos, Jonah, and Micah
• Hope for Life After Death
• In Whom and for What Do We Hope
• Job, the Innocent Sufferer
• Old Testament Prophecy and the Coming of Jesus
• Suffering and Hope in Jeremiah
• Where is God in My Praying?
• Where is God in My Suffering
• Who are the Biblical Prophets and What is Their Message?
• Why is that in the Bible? A Look at Some "Odd" Texts

Matthew L. Skinner
Associate Professor of New Testament

• How to Read and Interpret the Bible
• Overview of the New Testament
• Reading and Understanding the Parables of Jesus
• The Acts of the Apostles
• The Apostle Paul: His Writings, His Life, and His Theology
• The Cruxifixion of Jesus: What Happened, and What Does It Mean?
• The Gospel according to Luke
• The Gospel according to Mark
• Where Did Our Bible Come From?

Lee E. Snook
Professor Emeritus
Systematic Theology

• A Short Course in Christian Doctrine  (1+ sessions)
• Breathing Lessons: Thinking About the Holy Spirit  (1+ sessions)
• The Good, but Neglected, News from Africa  (1+ sessions)
• Thinking about the Millennium as Christians
• What Are Theologians Saying About Jesus  (1+ sessions)
• What Does It Mean When We Speak of God as the Trinity?

Walter Sundberg
Professor of Church History

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Authority of Scripture
• Church/State Relationships -- Politics
• Creeds and Confessions: Religion in America
• Ecumenism
• Ethics Questions Facing the Church
• Evil and the Demonic
• Luther on the Christian Life
• Lutheran Identity
• Reformation
• Stewardship

Mons A. Teig
Professor Emeritus of Worship

• (Available for pulpit supply preaching.)
• Architecture for Worship
• Calling 911: Worship at Life's Passages
• Creating Catechumenal Congregations
• Worship is Doing the Bible
• Worship is Everybody's Business
• Worship Planning: The Seasons
• Worship's Lively Tensions: Contemporary and Traditional

Mark A. Throntveit
Professor of Old Testament

• Bible Translations: Which Ones Shall We Use?
• Elijah and Elisha
• Excuses, Excuses, Excuses...Moses, the Burning Bush, and God's Call
• Genesis One: Creation as Relation
• Genesis: Plan, Peril, and Promise
• Genesis: Sunday School Stories or Soap Opera?
• Jesus, Justice, and the Prophets  (1-6 sessions)
• Job and the Problem of Evil
• Old Testament Prophecy
• Plagues, Passover, and the Passion of Christ (Lent)
• Psalm 23: The Lord is My...?
• Psalms: Songs in the Center of Life  (1-6 sessions)
• So...How Does Jesus Save Us Anyway? (Atonement)
• The Duh-Vinci Code
• Troubling Parables
• Voices in the Pentateuch
• What Would Moses Do? (10 Commandments)