Archives for January 10, 2023

In this devotion, Kurt Keljo ’81 M.Div. reflects on God’s rescuing love. Read today’s God Pause.

Here’s the schedule of Intensive Week activities for today and tomorrow. For complete details, see the January 2023 Intensive Schedule and FAQ Document.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023  

• All Day—Eco Faith Stuff Swap, 2nd floor OCC  
• 8:00–10:50 a.m.—Intensive Classes                         
• 11:00–11:25 a.m.—Chapel: Eco-Faith Worship with Alan Padgett
• 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.—Lunch (on your own)
• 12:30–5:20 p.m.—Intensive Classes         

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

• All Day—Eco Faith Stuff Swap, 2nd floor OCC  
• 8:00–10:50 a.m.—Intensive Classes                         
• 11:00–11:45 a.m.—Chapel: Service of Holy Communion with Dr. Kristofer Phan Coffman
• 11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.—Community Meal (pre-ordered) and Trivia
• 12:30–5:20 p.m.—Intensive Classes

We gather at 11 a.m. central in the Chapel of the Incarnation and online for chapel. We welcome Alan Padgett, Professor of Systematic Theology and The Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary Chair of Theology for a Service of the Word. Share your prayer requests here.

With increased numbers on campus over the Intensive, overflow parking has been cleared in the lot between Stub and Northwestern Hall. Please adhere to any parking signs currently in place and familiarize yourself with the city of St. Paul snow emergency parking rules. Check out this link for a map to the main parking options on campus.

Dear Luther Community,

In April 2021, we began sharing with the community a document that framed our DEI work, naming it as ABIDE. The document’s authors, Matt Skinner, Lois Malcom, Ken Reynhout, and Mark Tranvik produced what later became known as the ABIDE document and this was shared across our community. 

We are now preparing to get the ABIDE document approved as an institutional document. 

Several departments have already provided feedback and we want to invite you to our final community-wide feedback session. This will be an on-line gathering via Zoom.

We are hoping to present this to the board at the May board meeting. Once the communication process has been concluded, the original authors of the document will amend it and prepare it for presentation to the board. Our aim, ultimately, is to steer a process that will culminate in the board’s review and approval for use of the ABIDE document as an institutional document.

The final ABIDE session is this Friday, January 13, 2023, from 1 p.m.–2 p.m. (facilitators Dr. Ken Reynhout and Dr. Lois Malcolm.) 

The Zoom link will be shared via email.

Cultivating Creation Care as a Spiritual Discipline

Join in on four interactive virtual workshops exploring how caring for creation can be a spiritual discipline.Thae dates are Tuesday nights at 7 pm CT on January 17, 24, 31, and February 7. Explore with Deaconesses Katrina Martich and Kat Peters as they share from their respective experiences as Christian public leaders, an environmental engineer and an international educator. They will lead participants in exercises to deepen understanding as well as providing helpful, practical tools for creation care. The first twenty people  who register and who attend at least three sessions of the four sessions. will receive an educational packet of twelve bilingual (English/Spanish) downloads for congregational or group use. More downloads will be available for a discounted student rate. Click here to register for the free workshops! Zoom link will be provided via email.

For more information,  contact Judi Tyler at jtyler001@luthersem.edu.