Join in and come together for our 24 hours of giving starting at noon on October 13 for our annual Give Day as alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends support the mission of Luther Seminary from all over the world! Your Give Day support to the Current Scholarship Fund this year allows us to educate […]
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Luther Seminary to Repay 2012 Loan Ahead of Schedule
The Luther Seminary Board of Directors approved on February 5 the final $1 million repayment of a loan from the endowment. Faced with financial challenges in 2012, Luther Seminary borrowed $7 million from the endowment to cover operating deficits. In 2014, $6 million was paid back with the sale of seminary-owned apartments and the remaining […]
Luther Seminary Launches Seeds Project Fellowship with Grant Support from Trinity Church Wall Street
Luther Seminary recently received a $150,000 grant from Trinity Church Wall Street in support of the Seeds Project Fellowship. In an age when people are likely to seek the good apart from God, the Seeds Project seeks to empower Christian innovators who are focused on helping spiritual seekers and disciples of Jesus discover the difference […]
Luther Seminary Receives Nearly $1.5 Million Grant From Lilly Endowment Inc.
For immediate release (St. Paul, Minn.) – Luther Seminary has received a $1,463,800 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to test interventions that will help pastors and congregations deliberately reshape congregational life by engaging in ministries that resonate more deeply with the presence of God in their daily lives. This focus on resonance seeks to open […]
What’s Really Causing Church Decline…and What We Can Do About It
In this keynote address at the Faithful Innovation Summit in July 2019, Dwight Zscheile (VP of innovation, Luther Seminary) and Michael Binder (affiliate professor, Luther Seminary and co-lead pastor, Mill City Church) ask what we can do to renew the church’s identity and help it join God’s work in the 21st century. Watch it now.
What the Spiritual Life Inventory Reveals about the Health of Our Churches
In 2018, as part of the Lilly Foundation-funded Leadership for Faithful Innovation project, a team of Luther Seminary faculty and staff designed an assessment tool called the Spiritual Life Inventory to help churches and their leaders get a better sense of the spiritual life and church engagement in their congregations. Since then, nearly 50 Lutheran […]