Recently, I was looking back at communications we sent to the Luther Seminary community at the beginning of the pandemic, in which we expressed optimism that we’d be able to reopen in just a few weeks. More than a year later, as vaccines are widely available in the United States, we’re just now able to […]
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean Joy J. Moore, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, is the featured preacher June 6 on “Day 1” with host Peter Wallace, a nationally broadcast ecumenical radio program. In Moore’s sermon, “Trading Our Sorrows,” based on 1 Samuel 8:1-22, she asks, “Who is our Samuel […]
In “From Monks and Bells to Apps and Notifications,” Christianity Today reviewed “The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life” by Professor Andrew Root, Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry. The reviewer, Chris Nye, wrote that Root “achieves something quite remarkable” in his latest book. […]
Katie Langston, director of digital strategy and executive communication specialist at Luther Seminary, was recently interviewed by Religion News Service about her new memoir, “Sealed: An Unexpected Journey Into the Heart of Grace.” The interview, “From Mormon missionary to Lutheran pastor,” was picked up by the Washington Post. Langston’s memoir tells the story of her […]
It has been a tense month here in the Twin Cities, with the eyes of the world upon us. But the tension hasn’t belonged just to those of us in Minnesota. Everywhere you look, we’ve had a grueling, traumatic pandemic year, without time to process or grieve. We’ve witnessed violence against our BIPOC siblings in […]
Professor Andrew Root, Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, is author of “The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life.” Published in January, this is the final book in his three-volume set on ministry in a secular age. We reviewed the second […]