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Come and celebrate the completion of the 2024-2025 Beloved Community Fellowship, named in honor of the vision of Martin Luther King Jr’s “Beloved Community.” We will gather in OCC 10 on Tuesday, May 13, 3:00–4:30 p.m. and on Zoom (link in email) for a late lunch, snacks, and drinks and to hear from our fellows. Areas of focus in the fellowship include understanding MLK’s vision of the Beloved Community from the point of view of pastoral care, understanding secular and theological approaches to justice, and applying the above to our sociocultural and historical contexts. Each Beloved Community Fellow will be given 15 minutes to present a summary and discuss key highlights of their capstone paper, as well as answering questions from the audience. Presentations include:

1. “Self-acceptance and creative maladjustment in the ELCA” — Erik Nelson
2. “The Beloved Community and its resonance with Pakistan” — Alyssa Saleem
3. “Leadership for Justice” — Daniel Tsokpor
4. “Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community in relation to people who are marginalized in the special needs population in the United States” — Annette VanZeyl

The Community Life Fellows are hosting the next round of Pubs & Profs at Stouts on May 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Join us as we are educated by Mark Tranvik and Jennifer Wojciechowski as they discuss the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation.

In this devotion, Shawn Schneider ’23 M.Div., shares how worship renews, sustains, and prepares us to be sent into the world to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in a variety of settings.
Read today’s God Pause.

In this devotion, Elizabeth Callen ’23 M.Div., reminds us that, in a world where so much is uncertain, God’s love for us is not. Read today’s God Pause.

The heads of the seven ELCA seminaries met in retreat recently and decided it would be a good moment to speak together, with appreciation and hope, to leaders in the ELCA and to their own communities. Their statement—A Message of Gratitude and Hope—is from all of them and is intended to be shared.

In honor of AAPI Heritage Month in May, the Office of Inclusion and Belonging at Luther Seminary and Professor Kristofer Phan Coffman invite you to follow along with the new substack Luther through Asian Eyes. Professor Coffman will be sharing stories of Asian and Asian (American) faculty, students, and alumni and posts explaining different aspects of Asian (American) Christian history.