Announcements

A Tentative Course Schedule for 2025-2026 is now available. You can find it on the Registration tab of MyLutherNet.

For your inspiration and encouragement, the Luther Seminary Library showcases current books, e-books, short videos, and other resources on Jesus’ cross and resurrection.

This May, we are offering MIN 581 Chaplaincy Leadership in Specialized Settings. The course will be taught by Will Bevins, Chaplain (LT) in the US Navy, CPE Supervisor-Educator (CPEI), and Board Certified Chaplain (Spiritual Care Association). MIN 581 will meet Monday-Friday, May 12-23 from 2:30-6:30 p.m. This is an online/synchronous class (zoom). Except for a few assignments at the beginning, it is not an asynchronous course. Submit an ELCA cross-registration form to registrar@luthersem.edu for registration if interested.
Course description: This elective intensive course is designed to examine ministry by pastors serving as chaplains in specialized settings—military, hospital, prison, other institutional ministries. Elements of chaplaincy practice explored are (1) worship, preaching, and public speech, (2) interfaith engagements, and (3) pastoral care and counseling. The course provides students conceptual frameworks and practical introductions to major issues in chaplaincy. Course activities and student requirements focus on helping students gain a better understanding of specialized ministries and their role as spiritual and missional leaders in public, institutional settings. Topics address basic contours of chaplaincy ministry, the context for missional leadership, worship planning, preaching, and public speech in pluralistic settings, organizations using a systems perspective, and major pastoral care encounters in chaplaincy ministry.

In this devotion, Mary E. Hess, Professor of Educational Leadership and Chair of the Leadership Division, reminds us that we have a song to sing when we can sing no more. Read today’s God Pause.

We gather at 11:00 a.m. CT on Zoom (link in email) for a time of intercessory prayer together. Share your prayer requests.

FAD (Faith After Deconstruction) will meet Friday, April 11 at 9:30 a.m. CT on Zoom (link in email). All members of the Luther Seminary community are welcome, especially if you have experience or background in more evangelical or fundamentalist traditions. Join us in this loving space for nuanced conversations and support about our faith journeys. Contact Lauren Mildahl (lmildahl001) if you have any questions.