Word & World, the faculty journal of Luther Seminary, introduced a new website in August. “Although Word & World is a print journal, we wanted to make our articles accessible in a variety of ways for our readers. An up-to-date website is crucial to this strategy,” says Mark Granquist, Lloyd and Annelotte Svendsbye Chair in […]
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Land acknowledgement: ‘To be in right relationship’
In May, Luther Seminary adopted a land acknowledgement statement to be read by the president at the opening convocation of each academic year and at commencement: Luther Seminary is on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the homelands of the Dakhóta Oyáte. The Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Cheyenne, Oto, Iowa, and the Sac & Fox also inhabited Minnesota land. We […]
First Karvonen-Montgomery Preaching Fellowship awarded
Luther Seminary has awarded the first Reverend Janet Karvonen-Montgomery (’15 M.Div.) Preaching Fellowship to Jenna Olson Popp ’23 M.Div. The fellowship supports a year of travel with the goal of providing freedom for the study of preaching in a variety of contexts and time for experiences related to preaching and worship. Olson Popp plans to […]
Listening and learning
“Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”— Philippians 4:9 (ESV)
Meeting Jesus at the park
Mixed ecology blends inherited and emerging forms of church.
An updated education for a changing church
M.Div. curriculum refresh aims to meet the needs of future church leaders through streamlined learning.
Act two
Second-career pastors bring unique gifts to their callings.
A visual calling: The story behind the most-popular cartoons at Luther Seminary
Q&A with Associate Professor Steve Thomason







