Ph.D. student Sekenwa Briska knows firsthand the need for good theological books.
Paul Harrington, ’71, returns to Luther Seminary as interim campus pastor
In his first years of ministry, just after graduating from Luther Seminary, Paul Harrington had a recurring dream. “It was Sunday morning, and I had not a note on my pulpit, not a thought in my brain,” recalls Harrington. “And in the first three rows were seminary faculty with their notepads. I would wake up in a cold sweat.”
Sandy Rothschiller Focuses on Spiritual and Financial Wellness
As the Region 3 outreach coordinator for the ELCA Board of Pensions, Sandy Rothschiller knows she has her work cut out for her.
Kirsten Laderach: Servant Leadership Unmasked
From my initial meeting of Pastor Yehiel Curry in January 2009 to the last day I spent at Shekinah Chapel, I was in the company of a true friend and mentor.
Loren Halvorson, 1927-2010
The Rev. Dr. Loren Halvorson, ’53, long-time professor and friend of Luther Seminary, died Feb. 16 in Minneapolis of prostate cancer. He was 82.
Faith on Film
Lutherans can find God in a multitude of places. For Tyler Beane, a first-year M.A. student in systematic theology at Luther Seminary, God works through film.
CSA: Clergy Sustaining Agriculture
Nature’s chief tool for sustainability is diversity, said Jeff Hawkins, ’80. Hawkins is executive director of Hope CSA, a working and teaching ministry for pastors that is located on Hawkins’ 99-acre farm in North Manchester, Ind. “Just as sustainable farming requires producing a variety of crops, having only one way of being church is more fragile and less sustainable,” said Hawkins, a former pastor. “The farm teaches students an organic way of life through direct experience.”
Ministering Through Disaster
If anyone ever says, ‘Oh, where’s the church going?’ … the only thing I can think of is, ‘Where the church is going is great places,’ says Kevin Massey, ’93, director of the ELCA’s Domestic Disaster Response. Young volunteers and church members who assist in disaster situations around the country “really show an energy and a commitment to mission and ministry that is really uplifting and meaningful to me,” he says.