Archives for October 2025

Introduced in person during fall RFS in September, the new webinar The Alchemy of Faith-Informed Entrepreneurism: From Imagination to Innovation is a multi-episode guide for spiritual entrepreneurs that walks us through the core creative energies that fuel our work: imagination, ideation, ignition, and innovation. Each episode explores in depth one of these stages, weaving together practical exercises, reflective dialogue, and real-world application. The journey is nonlinear—participants are invited to see these forces not as steps but as a dynamic, interwoven process. Join us Tuesdays online—October 7, 28, November 18—from 6:00-7:30 pm CT for each new episode. Email Jody Nyenhuis, jnyenhuis001@luthersem.edu, for more information.

Interested in faith and the environment? EcoFaith is a student organization at Luther Seminary centered around faith, ecology, climate change, and care of creation. EcoFaith hosts occasional events and projects and is a place of community for students across all modalities. Indicate your interest in EcoFaith and sign up to receive announcements on the EcoFaith Moodle page.

Want to share something in an upcoming edition of Inside Luther News, the seminary’s internal e-newsletter? Send your announcement to communic@luthersem.edu. Submit items for the November edition by Wednesday, October 15. Inside Luther News helps keep students, staff, and faculty connected to our mission, people, and stories. Content in the e-newsletter is meant to be somewhat broader in scope—seasonal announcements, monthly reminders, stories about recent events or news of upcoming projects—than the daily Community Announcements posts and emails.

Students, faculty, and staff—thanks to an Endowment Lab Grant from Thrivent, you are invited to Brake Bread Together with our seminary community. Brake Bread Together will be informal gatherings on campus each month around bread and jam, coffee, and tea. We will “set the table” in different places around campus—Gullixson and Bockman Halls, Olson Campus Center, Old Muskego Church, and outdoors—to celebrate the spaces we inhabit right now. Everyone is invited to take a break/brake and be reminded that we are not alone. These are times to build relationships, listen to one another, laugh together, and celebrate the good work and learning being done among us. Join us for these 30-45 minute gatherings each month, which I hope will inspire each of us, in this holy space, to love one another more deeply in a time of uncertainty. The first gathering is next week:
Thursday, October 9 – Lunch Church 11 a.m., OCC Dining Room
If you have questions, email me anytime: erovahegener001@luthersem.edu.
— Emily Rova-Hegener, Contextual Learning

Get your Luther Seminary gear from Old Lutheran, available now through October 14. Items will be printed and shipped out once a week. Show your Luther Seminary spirit at home and when you come to your next RFS!

In this devotion, John Soyster ’79 M.Div. asks God for the faith to be able to forgive, to be bold, to be confident, and to be still and wait patiently. Read today’s God Pause.