Announcements

Save the Date – You are invited to a special Lunch Church with Ed Brown, secretary general of Stefanus Alliance International Ministry, on Thursday, September 25, 11 a.m. Following our community lunch, at 12 p.m. Ed will share about this small Norwegian NGO focused on promoting and protecting freedom of religion or belief for everyone and strengthening the presence of the church in areas of the world where there is extensive discrimination and persecution on the basis of religion or belief. Ed has worked as senior advisor at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and as pastor for the International Baptist Church outside of Oslo Norway. Please join us for a rich conversation during Lunch Church and stay a little while longer to hear more about this ministry.

How might creative new forms of Christian community thrive alongside time-honored church structures to reach neighbors with the gospel today? What does this look like in practice? On Thursday, September 25 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Incarnation in the Olson Campus Center at Luther Seminary, Dwight Zscheile, professor of congregational mission and leadership, and Blair Pogue, canon for innovation in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, will engage in a conversation about their new book, Embracing the Mixed Ecology: Inherited and New Forms of Christian Community Flourishing Together (Seabury, 2025) with Craig Loya, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, and Terri Elton, dean of academic affairs and professor of leadership at Luther. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing after the discussion.

In this devotion, Brooke (Apple) Phelps ’16 M.Div., prays that God would give us strength to live out the commitments made in our baptism and the strength to love one another. Read today’s God Pause.

The Application for Graduation is now open on MyLutherNet for those completing their academic work during the 2025-2026 academic year (September 8, 2025 through August 28, 2026). If you are planning to complete your degree this academic year and have not received the email announcement or are unable to access the application for graduation on MyLutherNet, please contact the Office of the Registrar at registrar@luthersem.edu. The non-refundable graduation fee will be added to student accounts, for all graduating students, when fall tuition charges are run.

In this devotion, Brooke (Apple) Phelps ’16 M.Div., wonders where in life we might be too comfortable with the status quo. Read today’s God Pause.

M.Div. students, planning an internship for the 2026-2027 academic year? If you are an ELCA candidate for ministry of Word and Sacrament or Word and Service—and by August 2026 you anticipate you will be endorsed by your synod, have completed 20 credits, and have completed CPE—come to our internship info session on Tuesday, September 23. We will meet on Zoom from 4-5 p.m. Central (link in email). Bring any and all of your questions about planning for internship.