Joe Mann

A holy (entrepreneurial) spirit experience

The newest version of the Tom Thiets story is called “Serving Beyond Bars”—and it’s about prison ministry. This story is built off an amazing tale about packing meals. However, this particular part of the story wouldn’t exist without years of faithful work and mission trips.

Mysterious ways: Graduate preaching fellowship recipient feels God’s hand throughout travels

Rachel Ringlaben knows that God’s hand touches her life every day, often in unexpected ways. Most recently, as she lay on a surgeon’s table in Guatemala, frightened before undergoing complicated emergency surgery, she was certain God was in the room, guiding her doctor’s hand.

Mountain man: M.Div. Student experiences transformative internship

Although M.Div. senior Joe Natwick, 25, spent his childhood on the flat, wind-swept North Dakota prairie, he feels particularly at peace in the mountains. In fact, Natwick says he first felt God’s call while camping in the mountains with his church youth group.

Spiritual but not religious: Luther’s voice in a growing conversation

“Although many mainline Protestants no longer attend church, many still identify themselves as spiritual, but not in any organized way,” says Lois Malcolm, professor of systematic theology. The recognized terminology is “spiritual but not religious,” or “SBNR.”

Keeping the faith: M.A. student sends prayers, aid to family in Ebola-stricken Liberia

On a hot day in early August, F. Phillip Nushann Jr. took a short break from his internship working with refugees through Lutheran Social Services. He carefully packed a large parcel with bottles of hand sanitizer, eardrops, ibuprofen and acetaminophen, and then stopped at a local post office to mail the package to his home in Liberia, hoping that the desperately needed items would arrive within 10 days.