Archives for 2025

For an easy way to stay informed about upcoming events, check out the Luther Seminary Community calendar. Starting today, the calendar will share information about seminary events that are open to the entire Luther community, to all students, or to all faculty and/or staff. Examples include chapel, community meals, social events, and important dates like upcoming Residential Focus Sessions. (If you’re experiencing déjà vu, yes, this calendar existed before and is making a comeback!)

You can add the calendar to your regular Google calendar view and submit events via the community announcements submission process. Please note that this calendar is for informational purposes only and does not reserve a room for you—if you need to reserve a space, you must use Coursedog. Contact communic@luthersem.edu with questions.

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.

We gather at 11:00 a.m. CT in the OCC Meditation Chapel and on Zoom (link in email) for contemplative practice of your choice—mindful sketching, centering prayer, or however you choose to engage silence. Facilitated by Dean of the Chapel Steve Thomason, we read the text and then practice in silence for 15 minutes. Afterward, you are welcome to sit in fellowship or go about your day.
Share your prayer requests.

Come for brake-fast with pancakes and bread on November 5 from 8:30–9:30 a.m. in the OCC café! This is the second “Brake Bread” opportunity to gather around bread, jam, and pastries while building deeper community connections and celebrating a campus space—this time the café. Supported by an Endowment Lab Grant from Thrivent, these braking bread events are intentional moments to build relationships, listen to one another, laugh together, and celebrate the good work and learning being done among us. Please join us in this holy space to love one another more deeply in a time of uncertainty. If you have questions, email Emily Rova-Hegener in Contextual Learning, erovahegener001@luthersem.edu.

Check out this week’s blog post from Dean of the Chapel Steve Thomason—All Saints Week.

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.