{"id":8384,"date":"2025-11-19T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:21:11","slug":"faculty-and-staff-notes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2025\/11\/19\/faculty-and-staff-notes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and staff notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Granquist<\/strong>, professor of the history of Christianity, gave several lectures in May at the Johannelund Theological Seminary in Uppsala, Sweden, where he is an affiliate professor. Granquist also received an award of commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute for his article, \u201cLutherans in Canada,\u201d in the Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference.<\/p>\n

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Mary Jane Haemig<\/strong>, professor emerita of church history, is the author of \u201cThe Reformation of Prayer among Sixteenth-Century Lutherans,\u201d published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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Mary Hess<\/strong>, professor of educational leadership, was a plenary speaker at the international Seminar on Religious Education and Values in Riga, Latvia, in July. The title of her presentation was \u201cListening to the Divine Amidst Digitality: Finding Hope for a World on the Brink.\u201d Also in July, Hess delivered a paper titled \u201cTransforming Faith Stories in a Time of Economic Contestation\u201d to the Religious Education Association.<\/p>\n

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Craig Koester \u201980 M.Div<\/strong>., professor emeritus, recently published four essays: \u201cThe Centrality of \u2018Life\u2019 for Johannine Ethics\u201d in The Ethics of John, edited by Jan G. van der Watt and Matthijs den Dulk; \u201cThe Good Shepherd Discourse as Persuasive Speech (John 9:39\u2013 10:21),\u201d in Aspects of Soteriology in John and Paul, edited by Jan G. van der Watt, Joseph Verheyden, and J\u00f6rg Frey; \u201cHigh Christology in the Gospel of John and Book of Revelation,\u201d in Early High Christology: John Among the New Testament Writers, edited by Christopher Blumhofer, Diane Chen, and Joel Green; and \u201c\u2018You Are of Your Father the Devil\u2019 (John 8:44): Ethical Interpretation in Light of the Text\u2019s Reception History and 1 John,\u201d in Revelation and Conflict in John 7 and 8, edited by R. Alan Culpepper and J\u00f6rg Frey. A Spanish translation of his Anchor Yale Bible commentary on Revelation was published this year as \u201cApocalipsis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cody Sanders<\/strong>, associate professor of congregational and community care leadership, is the author of \u201cSpiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community,\u201d published by Fortress Press. He has recently given several lectures, including the annual Carpenter Lecture on Gender, Sexuality, and Justice at Brite Divinity School; the annual Scott Lecture on \u201cThe Trauma of Loneliness\u201d at Ministry Week, hosted by Brite Divinity School and University Christian Church in Fort Worth, Texas; the Storaasli Lecture at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon, Canada, titled \u201cUnderstanding Christian Nationalism, Practicing Christian Community\u201d on the parallel rise of Christian nationalism in the United States and Canada; and the William M. Johnson Lecture at Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, titled \u201cPracticing Hope in an Age of Cruelty and Despair.\u201d He was the preacher for the gathering eucharist at the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University, where he also gave a workshop on deathcare ritual. Sanders has joined the editorial board of a new book series, \u201cARRAY,\u201d a joint publishing venture between the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion and Wipf and Stock. He also served for most of the past year as interim pastor at The Table MPLS.<\/p>\n

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Dwight Zscheile \u201808 Ph.D.<\/strong>, professor of congregational mission and leadership, coauthored \u201cEmbracing the Mixed Ecology: Inherited and New Forms of Christian Community Flourishing Together\u201d with Blair Pogue, published by Seabury Books. He was the keynote speaker at the Central\/Southern Illinois ELCA Synod assembly and led a workshop at the Nebraska Synod assembly.<\/p>\n

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