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The St. Cloud VA CPE Center is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 CPE Resident program for the St. Cloud VA. Program dates are October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. Residents have the opportunity to work full-time alongside Chaplain Preceptors and the Interdisciplinary Care Team serving our men and women veterans. There are four stipend Resident I positions and 2 stipend Resident II Fellow positions. Stipend for the STC VA Resident I is approximately $40,468; Resident II is $43,301. STC VA CPE Center also offers summer intern, extended, and CE Training programs. For more information about our CPE residency, intern, or extended unit programs, call Chaplain Dan Duggan at 320-252-1670 x 7543 or email daniel.duggan@va.gov.

In this devotion, Dan Odden ’75 M.Div., ’95 D.Min., asks God to draw us every more near and to quiet our selfish pursuits. Read today’s God Pause.

Faculty and staff, do you have professional news you’d like to share with Story magazine readers? Have you recently published a book or article or presented publicly? Did you represent Luther Seminary at a conference or other event? Submit your news to communic@luthersem.edu by August 1.

In this devotion, Dan Odden ’75 M.Div., ’95 D.Min., reminds us how we live with one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom to come. Read today’s God Pause.

In this devotion, Dan Odden ’75 M.Div., ’95 D.Min., ponders boasting and the psalmist’s call to the one who gives us life and is the source of true riches. Read today’s God Pause.

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