Archives for January 5, 2021

Greetings, Luther community! Welcome to winter term. For your spiritual connection, formation, and care, we are offering chapel during the Intensives (January 4-15) with the schedule below.

Tuesday: The Liturgy of the Hours Podcast

Wednesday: Wednesday Chapel, 11 a.m. Central on Zoom (Follow this Zoom link. See this Google doc for the password. You must be logged into your luthersem.edu account to access the document.)

Friday: Creative and Contemplative Worship on the Luther Seminary Chapel Facebook page via Facebook Live

As always, email Pastor Jeni (sempastor@luthersem.edu) to connect, pray, and for any questions for your access to spiritual direction or counseling.

Come together today to check in. Grab a beverage and Zoom in for community, conversation, and care at 11 a.m. Central. Follow this Zoom link. See this Google doc for the password. You must be logged into your luthersem.edu account to access the document.

In this new year, we continue down some paths already paved. Despite the disruptions of 2020, the MDivX pilot program has welcomed its second cohort and is preparing to receive the third. When the MDivX accelerated program was initiated in 2018, it was organized under the oversight of the vice president of innovation as an experiment to inform the academic program at Luther Seminary. With the pilot program now well established and functioning effectively at the midpoint of its lifecycle, the time has come to shift oversight fully to the vice president of academic affairs/academic dean.

As this was always the intention, this will not significantly shift how the program is functioning. The vice president of innovation will continue to serve on the MDivX Guiding Team and provide ongoing support to the pilot program in collaboration with the vice president of academic affairs/academic dean. The director of the MDivX Program will continue to serve on the Innovation Leadership Team. The vice president of academic affairs/academic dean is currently leading a process of gathering learnings so far that will guide future decisions about this experiment’s impact on Luther’s curriculum, pedagogy, and programs going forward.

If you have questions, contact Dwight Zscheile, vice president of innovation, dzscheile001@luthersem.edu, or Joy J. Moore, vice president of academic affairs and academic dean, jmoore002@luthersem.edu.

Congratulations to our colleagues celebrating work anniversaries in January!

Ellen Elhard: January 1 – 10 years
Paul Hanson: January 1 – 10 years
Jake Hennes: January 3 – 3 years
Bill Silva-Breen: January 3 – 24 years
Peter Watters: January 3 – 4 years
Cindie Olson: January 4 – 22 years
Leslie Ortiz: January 5 – 11 years
Ashley Jordan: January 13 – 1 year
Ken Reynhout: January 13 – 1 year
Ron Hosek: January 24 – 10 years
Dawn Alitz: January 25 – 5 years