What would lead a Turkist Muslim student to Luther Seminary? Why, Google, of course.
Second Quarter 2007
Karoline Lewis Joins Faculty
Karoline Lewis joined the Luther Seminary faculty on July 1 as an assistant professor of preaching.
Luther Seminary Elects New Board Directors and Trustees
Two new members have been appointed to the Luther Seminary board of directors for a four-year term, Beth Lewis, CEO of Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, and Bob Torkelson, retired executive, Excelsior, Minn. They join 22 other directors on the Luther Seminary board.
Filling the Stewardship Education Gap
Luther Seminary’s stewardship education programs are helping Christian leaders become good stewards of money, time, volunteers and other assets.
Like Daughter Like Mother, Like Father Like Son
Students commonly follow their parents in attending Luther Seminary. Kate Schruba and her mother, Tryphine, and Carl Fiskness and his dad, Alton, though, have had the more unusual experience of walking the seminary halls side by side.
Congregation Worships Without Borders
If Sean Whelan and his parishioners at North Emanuel Lutheran Church had stuck to their comfortable Sunday routine, they would have all spent the morning of March 25 in their sanctuary in northern St. Paul, Minn. Instead, they found themselves standing in the street outside a nearby home—a crime scene where three people had been killed two mornings earlier—and worshiping with members of the victims’ families.
It’s All About Vocation
When asked about the connection between pitching for a minor-league baseball team and going to seminary, Charlie Ruud answers like a good Lutheran: It’s all about vocation.
Notes from the Mission Field
Graduation on May 27 was a great celebration of leadership for the church. The leaders walked up to the altar and promised to serve their Lord faithfully wherever the wind of the Spirit sends them. In all, 178 leaders graduated—the largest graduation in over 10 years!