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Do You Want to Be a New Student Peer?

Posted on June 26, 2025

The New Student Engagement Team is looking for current students to become New Student Peers!
This is a volunteer position that will allow you to be a part of welcoming the new class of seminary students. As a new student peer, you will be responsible for:

  • participating in a Zoom training session in late July or early August
  • reaching out to new students 2-4 times during August
  • a monthly check-in during Fall Semester to answer questions or point the students to someone who would have answers
  • potentially taking students out for a coffee or a meal during RFS or early Fall Semester (reimbursed by admissions)

If you will be graduated by September 2025 or will be on leave from seminary during the 2025-26 school year, please do not fill out the form below. We’re hoping New Student Peers will be current students. Those on internship are welcome to participate!

Please fill out this form by July 11th if you would like to be a New Student Peer.

If you have questions please email newstudents@luthersem.edu.

Joseph Sittler Memorial Dedication – June 28

Posted on June 26, 2025

You are invited to help us honor the life and work of renowned theologian Joseph Sittler. We hope you can be part of an informal gathering on Saturday, June 28 at Minnehaha Regional Park at 1:00 p.m. central. The event was originally scheduled last fall and postponed for better weather and more participation. The gathering will take place a mile downstream from Minnehaha Falls, at a new park bench installed in Sittler’s honor, near where Minnehaha Creek meets the Mississippi River. This scenic location was chosen to reflect Sittler’s belief that “nature is a theater of Grace.” Stewart Herman, visiting fellow at the Christensen Center on Vocation at Augsburg College and retired faculty of religion at Concordia College–Moorhead, is organizing the event and shares: “God’s Word is active in nature, which to the eyes of faith can be seen when the Minnehaha rushes to the Mississippi. We gather to honor Joseph Sittler’s path-breaking incorporation of ecology into Lutheran theology by sharing, individually, our favorite ideas from his work. Bring your favorite quote!” For more information, reach out to Dr. Herman at herman@cord.edu​.

ABIDE All-Community Summer Book Club

Posted on June 25, 2025

Join members of the seminary community in the annual ABIDE All-Community Summer Book Club! This year, we’ll be reading and discussing Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice by Isaac Samuel Villegas. Please register online by no later than July 16 to participate. This annual summer book club is part of our ABIDE initiative, Luther Seminary’s distinctive approach to accountability, belonging, inclusion, diversity, and equity. Staff, faculty, and current and incoming students are invited to participate in this summer tradition. Questions? Email Rory at rrohloff001@luthersem.edu.

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