Archives for November 13, 2023

In this devotion, Professor Emeritus James L. Boyce ’71 M.Div. reflects on the call to live not in complacence but with awareness that this life rests in God’s hands and by God’s mercy. Read today’s God Pause.

Join Tim Coltvet, our preacher of the week, and chapel staff for a text study today at 11:00 a.m. CT. Text of the week: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 and Matthew 25: 14-30 Join text study via Zoom.

We gather in the Chapel of the Incarnation and online for chapel. On Thursdays, we gather in the OCC Dining Room and on Zoom for Lunch Church.

11:00 a.m. CT Monday, November 13
Chapel Text Study with Tim Coltvet, our preacher of the week, and chapel staff
Text of the week: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 and Matthew 25: 14-30
Join text study via Zoom

11:00 a.m. CT Tuesday, November 14
Service of Word and Prayer
Preacher: Melissa Pickering

11:00 a.m. CT Wednesday, November 15 
Service of Holy Communion
Preacher: Tim Coltvet, Director of Contextual Learning

11:00 a.m. CT Thursday, November 16
Lunch Church in the OCC Dining Room
Topic: Why Jesus
Speaker: Jon Anderson, Director of Rural Ministries

Friday, November 17
Prayer Labyrinth
A Prayer Labyrinth will be set up in the Narthex of OCC. You are invited to come and walk the labyrinth at any time on Friday.

Share your prayer requests.

Add the chapel calendar to yours.

Were you just recently entranced into ELCA Candidacy or are you in discernment and potentially beginning this journey? Candidacy is a process that will continue throughout your time in seminary if you are planning to be rostered in the ELCA. 

Please join Ashley Wheeler, Associate Director of Candidacy and Vocational Formation; and Deacon Krista Anderson, Region 3 Candidacy and Leadership Manager and Program Director for the Support of Ministers of Word and Service; for an information session on Candidacy, Wednesday November 15 at 12:30 p.m. (central).

This will be a hybrid event and lunch will be provided for those able to attend in person. Please RSVP for November 15 here. If you cannot attend, a Zoom recording will be available for those that RSVP.

Please join this free presentation on Luther Seminary’s campus Saturday, November 18 from 3–5 p.m. in the OCC Dining Room area presented by Community Conversations Ecumenical Consortium. Hear from the University of Minnesota’s ‘Mapping Prejudice’ & St. Catherine’s ‘Welcoming Dear Neighbor?’ projects to learn what is happening across the Twin Cities. Registration Preferred. If you cannot attend in person, livestream will be available. The presentation will be recorded. Register for November 18 now.

As of Monday, November 20, we are integrating the Luther Seminary Community Google calendar and the meeting/events scheduling process into Coursedog, which already houses the course catalog. This change will make it easier for faculty, staff, and students to schedule a meeting or event, reserve space and tech, put an event on the seminary calendar, and see upcoming events at a glance—all in one place.

How will it work?

1) To schedule a meeting or event, reserve a conference room, request tech support for a meeting or event, or put an event on the seminary calendar, select “Event Request” under “Luther Seminary Events” in the right sidebar of inside.luthersem.edu. 

2) To see the calendar of upcoming events, select “Upcoming Events” under “Luther Seminary Events” in the right sidebar of inside.luthersem.edu. The Luther Seminary Community Google calendar will be retired as of November 20. 

3) To promote your upcoming event to the seminary community, please continue to submit community announcements as usual. However, there will no longer be an option on the form to “submit this event to the community calendar.” You will need to create the event request separately by following the process above. Submitting a community announcement will NOT put your event on the seminary calendar as of November 20.

Need help? Please review this guide to event scheduling or follow along with this video tutorial. Operations/IT staff will also be available to answer questions at a future All Hands meeting and an upcoming Lunch and Learn.

If you need additional assistance, please reach out to helpdesk@luthersem.edu.