Come one, come all! There will be a game night and free pizza in the Library on Thursday, April 28, 4:30-6:30p.m. If you have an RFS class, come and have a brain break! If you do not have an RFS Class, just come for fun!
Archives for April 2022
Free Coffee and Pastries
Come enjoy free coffee and pastries in the Olson Campus Center (OCC) Café for the duration of this RFS time from April 22 through April 30 starting at 7:30a.m. until 2p.m. The pastries are sponsored by the Student Council, and prepared by Fruit and Grain Bakery. If you like these pastries so much, you can also find Fruit and Grain Bakery on social media and place an order for pick-up in the Twin Cities! All donations will go towards continuing this effort in the future.
The Concord: Music and The Modern Church
In his fantastic new piece for The Concord, author D.J. Chatelaine uses the band Coldplay as a case study to explore the church’s need to embrace secular music in worship! Read this fascinating article today on The Concord’s website!
theconcord.squarespace.com/articles/music-and-the-modern-church
Student Cybersecurity Awareness Training Available
In the current global climate we need to be extra alert to phishing attacks and scams. President Biden’s recent statement on cybersecurity underscores the need to be alert and aware.
To help with phishing awareness we’ve made a cybersecurity training course available to students in Moodle (it will be on the main course dashboard). I invite students to go through this short course and take the quiz at the end.
Everyone who has a login to the Luther Seminary network has a role to play to keep our digital campus secure. Phishers are not always interested in you or your information. They’re often interested in using your login and email account to phish other people at the seminary who have access to valuable personal information.
Completing the course earns you badge in Moodle. On May 27 at 3:00 p.m. we’ll give one random person who earned the badge a set of Apple Airpods. Winner will be notified by email.
Beef up your biblical commentary repertoire!
Are you looking to bring more nuance to your text studies? Tired of using the same biblical commentaries over and over? Head on over to the Databases A-Z page and check out the digital commentaries the library has to offer. Don’t know where to start? Take a look at the recently acquired Anchor Yale Bible Commentary series online (your Luther Seminary username and password are required for access). Consider adding one or more of these resources to your exegetical quiver today in order to pierce the heart of the text.
Databases A-Z page: https://luthersem.libguides.com/az.php?a=all
Anchor Yale Bible Commentary: https://www-theologyandreligiononline-com.luthersem.idm.oclc.org/anchor-yale-bible-commentaries
On Praying for Ukraine
As we all pray for Ukraine, its people and refugees, pray also for our sister seminaries (there are several), missionaries, and churches struggling to survive. This includes Ukraine’s historic Christian sites. The Saint Sophia Cathedral is the “spiritual heart of Kyiv and one of the most important sites in the Orthodox faith.”
The Kyiv Cathedral includes mosaics and frescoes as old as 1,000 years – including the magnificent “Icon of St. Basil the Great of Caesarea” pictured here in our library’s ‘theologian bibliographies‘.