The Garden of the Resurrection has been relocated to a space at the heart of campus, outside the Olson Campus Center. The move ensures a permanent home for the garden on campus after the Luther Seminary Board of Directors approved a future sale of the lower campus in 2018. To acknowledge the move and honor […]

Luther Seminary’s Faith+Lead platform is expanding to meet the needs of more people. In addition to continuing to provide resources for pastors and other church leaders, Faith+Lead’s updated website, which launched in November, targets two new audiences—everyday disciples and spiritual seekers. The change came out of the seminary’s efforts to help churches that are seeing […]

Lois Farag joined the seminary as assistant professor of early church history in 2005. She retired at the end of February. “Lois brought a new and engaging set of perspectives to the teaching of the history of Christianity. As an Egyptian monastic from the Coptic Orthodox Church, she brought an Egyptian perspective, an Orthodox perspective, […]

Working Preacher’s podcasts reached an impressive milestone in January, hitting more than 1 million downloads. Working Preacher, a collection of educational resources from Luther Seminary, has three podcasts. “Sermon Brainwave” offers weekly conversation on Revised Common Lectionary readings, while the “Narrative Lectionary” podcast does the same for Narrative Lectionary readings. “Working Preacher Books” discusses theological […]

Luther Seminary is pleased to welcome new faculty and staff. Cody J. Sanders, Ph.D., will join the faculty as associate professor of congregational and community care leadership on July 1, 2023. Sanders’s scholarship focuses on pastoral theology and counseling, with emphasis in chaplaincy, spiritual care, death-care practices, and LGBTQ+ experience. He has served as pastor […]

Commencement weekend at Luther Seminary began with a baccalaureate service in the Chapel of the Incarnation on May 20. Kathryn Schifferdecker, the Elva B. Lovell chair of Old Testament, preached, and David Fredrickson ’80 M.Div., professor of New Testament, presided at Holy Communion. The commencement ceremony was held on May 21 at Central Lutheran Church […]

We reached out to Luther Seminary alumni online to gather stories about favorite stoles. Here are some of their photos and
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