Archives for November 2025

The Mayo Clinic is an ACPE-accredited program for CPE that offers current opportunities. The application cycle opened on September 2. Applications are reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Full-time residencies and summer opportunities are available. Residency stipend for one year is $58,656. Learn more here. If interested, contact the Mayo Clinic via email, cpeprogram@mayo.edu.

Based on feedback from across the seminary community, we have updated the community announcements submission form. The updated form can still be accessed using the “Submit an Announcement” button in the right navigation on Inside Luther. The new version allows you to designate your announcement as an in-person, hybrid, or online event and have it automatically added to the Luther Seminary Community shared Google calendar.

Any announcements you’ve already submitted using the old form will be transferred and posted as planned (including being added to the LS Community Calendar, as appropriate). If you have the old form bookmarked or have the link stored elsewhere, please update your links. We will check responses to both forms this week (November 3–7) and then will not check the old form going forward. Contact communic@luthersem.edu with questions.

In this devotion, Marlene Elmstrom ’94 M.Div., notes Paul’s reminder that God’s promise is true because God in Christ has already made it a reality. Read today’s God Pause.

We will gather on Thursday, November 6 at 11 a.m. for an All Saints Lunch Church. Ashley Wheeler will guide us through a creative collage process to honor and remember the saints that have gone before us as we lean into our Christian traditions of scripture, prayer, and breaking bread together. You are invited (but not required) to bring copies of any photos of loved ones you would like to remember. Please note these photos will be cut and glued as part of the collage process—please make sure it is an extra copy of your photo. Lunch is provided.

In this devotion, Marlene Elmstrom ’94 M.Div., encourages us to be bold in our petitions to God, confident not in our own righteousness but in our baptism into Christ. Read today’s God Pause.

In an election season marked by much fear, anxiety, and uncertainty, may we be comforted by a prayer from Karl Barth, shared on our brief Karl Barth bibliography. Here is the original prayer from the Center for Barth Studies.