Archives for 2024

To enhance student learning and leadership formation outside of coursework, Luther Seminary is introducing graduate fellowships. Fellowships are co-curricular leadership development opportunities for small groups of students to explore focus topics and areas of ministry. Led by key staff and faculty, fellowships include learning from ministry practitioners, in-person retreats with other fellows, formal peer connecting, and experiential learning. Fellowships are resourced outside the Jubilee Scholarship. Next year, we will offer two fellowships: Beloved Community and Cultivating New Christian Communities.

• Beloved Community. As the Spirit transforms the world by empowering the proclamation of the gospel, we engage in this work by equipping future Christian public leaders who will work collaboratively against injustices and cultivate courage and sacrificial love in their communities.
  Contact Samuel Zalanga, szalanga001@luthersem.edu
• Cultivating New Christian Communities. As God invites the church to explore new expressions of Christian community, we are responding by gathering a cohort of students passionate about this work to explore how God might be calling them to participate.
  Contact Jody Nyenhuis, jnyenhuis001@luthersem.edu

Additional information on each fellowship will be available soon. Interested students can get more information in the open advising session during summer RFS on Thursday, June 13 at 11:45 a.m in the OCC dining room.

How do we lead and love with scriptural wisdom in these polarized times? The latest on-demand course led by Joy J. Moore in the Faith+Lead Academy responds to that question with practices and scriptural reflections for listening and connecting across differences. Imagine how A More Excellent Way might inform personal relationships, group dynamics, or congregational life. This course is available for individual purchase or is included with the Faith+Lead membership, to which all students have free access until September.

The annual 3% increase for 2024-2025 academic year will be applied next month, so renters will see the increase beginning with their July 1, 2024 payment. Rent amounts for July 1, 2024-September 30, 2025 are as follows:

• Bockman Hall Dorm single room: $383 per month
• Bockman Hall Dorm double room 1 occupant: $464 per month
• Bockman Hall Dorm double room 2 occupants: $263 per month
• LDR Efficiency Apartment: $706 per month + utilities
• LDR 1 Bedroom Apartment: $739 per month + utilities
• Houses: $591 per bedroom per month + utilities

In this devotion, Joel Anderson ’80 M.Div., moves us forward to scattering seed, to planting and looking forward to what God will do. Read today’s God Pause.

If you missed the 2024 Aus Memorial Lecture—Bonhoeffer, the Gospel, and the Other: A Bonhoeffer Salon—or would like to revisit it, a full recording of the event is now available.

Join Mary Hess on June 21 for a digital storytelling workshop centered on sharing stories of connection to and care for the Earth. You don’t need to have any skill with either telling stories, or using digital tech, but you need to bring your own device (smart phone, tablet, or laptop) and a desire to share a story from your own experience and to listen to others. Participants can gather at 8:30 a.m. for coffee, and the workshop will begin at 9 a.m., then work until lunch in small circles to share stories using specific prompts and dialogue rules. After lunch (provided) the workshop will turn to a “co-laboratory,” where help will be offered as you use your own devices to audio record a short story, and then to tweak it with photos, music, and so on. The workshop concludes by 3 p.m. Professor Hess is particularly interested in welcoming international students to this project. This workshop will be held in person, but a future workshop may happen online if there is sufficient interest. For more information, contact Mary Hess, mhess@luthersem.edu.