Archives for November 10, 2021

Join us at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of the Incarnation today for Holy Communion. Our preacher will be Lois Malcolm, professor and Olin and Amanda Fjelstad Registad Chair for Systematic Theology. Music led by Mark Ertl and the Luther Seminary Choir.

A reminder that Luther Seminary will be conducting a fire drill in all buildings at 1 p.m. today. All staff and students will be required to exit the buildings when the alarm sounds.

Join Sarah Luedke-Jones for Game Night and Happy Hour at 7 p.m. Friday.

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Join us for pizza and board games this Friday in OCC after Chapel! There will be pizza, games, and community! Sign up on this spreadsheet.

If you are planning on a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) unit and have questions or would like to know more, please join us for a CPE Info Session 12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 10. We plan to a have some CPE educators who will join us to discuss what they look for in an application and how CPE units are working in their centers right now.

The Zoom link will be included in the community announcements email.

Questions? Please contact Erica Dolmar (cpe@luthersem.edu).

Reminder that our second session with Austen Hartke is 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Central this Friday, November 12. Use this Zoom link to join us. The passcode will be included in the community announcements email.

Now that we know more about LGBTQI2A people, how can we be better neighbors, coworkers, and friends? In this session we’ll be going over interpersonal and institutional actions we can take to make our communities places of abundant life for everyone.

As with the first session, Austen would love to hear what questions you are bringing to this conversation. Submit those, and register to receive a reminder with the Zoom link, on this form.

Austen Hartke is the author of “Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians,” published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2018. He is also the founder and director of Transmission Ministry Collective, an online community dedicated to the spiritual care, faith formation, and leadership potential of transgender and gender-expansive Christians. He is a graduate of Luther Seminary’s Master of Arts program in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies, and is the winner of the 2014 John Milton Prize in Old Testament Writing from the same institution. As a transgender person of faith, Austen’s greatest passion is helping other trans and gender-expansive people see themselves in scripture.