Archives for June 2020

The office of Graduate Theological Education is being restructured. It will now be named the office of Advanced Theological Education (A.T.E.). This office will be responsible for the Th.M. and Ph.D. programs. Guillermo Hansen will continue to oversee the work of these programs with the title of director.

The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) programs will now fall under the name Advanced Ministerial Leadership Studies and continue to be overseen by current directors Karoline Lewis and Dwight Zscheile. The D.Min. programs’ last cohort of students will complete this year. Work is in process to review and restructure these programs, and decisions are expected in the coming academic year.

Administrative support for these programs will continue to be carried out by Jennifer Mullenix in her current role of program coordinator.

These changes will take effect as of July 1, 2020.

Pastor Jeni is taking a well deserved vacation, and Sarah Luedtke-Jones is going to run the coffee break today as a space to ask your advising questions.

11 a.m.-12 p.m. Central Tuesday, June 30. Follow this Zoom link: https://luthersem.zoom.us/my/sempastor. A link to the password will be included in the community announcements email.

Reminder: There is no Coffee Break on Thursday of this week because the campus is closed.

The third episode of the “Liturgy of the Hours” podcast is live, offering you prayer that goes with you wherever you may be. The Liturgy of the Hours is an ancient practice of prayer that takes place throughout various times of the day. Each week we offer one episode with three chapters: for morning prayer, evening prayer, and night prayer.

Visit the seminary pastor’s “Liturgy of the Hours: Episode Three” page for a link to the podcast.

The Qualtrics User Group will not meet this week due to the holiday. Our next gathering will be at noon Central Thursday, August 6. If you need help with a data project before then, please reach out to Tessa Pinkstaff at tpinkstaff001@luthersem.edu with your questions. You can also request to be added to the monthly user group meeting invitation (which includes the Zoom link).

Faculty and staff members are invited to join us on the first Thursday of each month to learn about using this tool for data collection, analysis, surveys, assessments, and more. See you in August!

Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the ELCA offers a video to mark 50 years since women were allowed to be ordained in our church body.

2019 Guggenheim Fellow and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi will discuss his renowned book “How to Be an Antiracist” in a virtual event at 6 p.m. Central Monday, July 20. Please sign up on the Eventbrite registration page.