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![]() | Fall 2022 Featuring: Coming home: LSTC welcomes alumni and friends back to campus for 4th Homecoming (cover story) Making it all fit: Carly Chamberlain stays busy with Public Church Fellowship, work, classes via distance learning Lyndsay’s next great adventure: Monsen comes home to Chicago to explore ministerial calling Candace Kohli brings her Luther passion to LSTC Doctoral candidate Denise Rector awarded DSIR Fellowship ‘We need to wake up’: Jepenri Tambunan shares wisdom from rare WCC experience |
![]() | Summer 2022 Featuring: A joyous, in-person commencement (cover story) School in motion (President Nieman’s letter) Bishop Yehiel Curry receives Distinguished Service Award Four to receive distinguished alumni awards A farewell to Jan Boden Erv and Ross: legacy of love and service |
![]() | Winter/Spring 2022 Featuring: Saints are for Lutherans, too (cover story) Three graduates look toward commencement – Hery Andrianotahina Naivoson; Christopher Rajkumar; Melissa Hrdlicka Honoring the legacy of Klein and Krentz A public pastor for a public church Progress in LSTC’s strategic plan This is what TEEM program looks like |
![]() | Fall 2021 Featuring: Professors produce podcast (cover story) Five alumni honored at Homecoming – John Kotovsky, Ronald Glusenkamp, Kara Baylor, David Hedlin, and Gary Simpson New students have stories to tell – Ji Bu; Juan Manuel Arias Perea; Killian Schrenk Vance Blackfox shifts the narrative Donors make the ordinary extraordinary |
![]() | Summer 2021 Featuring: Celebrating 2021 commencement virtually (cover story) Understanding the first call process Lane Lewis shares LSTC’s story Global theologians speak truth to the church Reflections from antiracism team members |
![]() | Winter/Spring 2021 Featuring: LSTC prepared these grads for calls abroad (cover story) Virtual commencement, three graduate profiles Strategic plan unveils priorities Graduate moves from pulpit to politics Rossing uses Erlander resource to teach Teaching and learning in a pandemic Class of ’70 challenges others to give |
![]() | Fall 2020 Featuring: Student workers vital during pandemic (cover story) Homecoming honors distinguished grads Stephen Styles an ecumenical bridge builder Katie Mueller finds joy and challenge Thor Arason leaves Iceland to study liturgy Brooke Petersen serves up grace, compassion Cheryl Stewart Pero made history Colleagues remember Paul Landahl |
![]() | Summer 2020 Featuring: A love letter to the Class of 2020 (cover story) MDiv graduate ready for what comes next Couples find love at LSTC – Maddie and Corey; Elle and Adam; Sarah and Ian; Troy and Ole A tribute to Pat Bartley Gift officer reflects on pastor’s legacy |
![]() | Winter/Spring 2020 Featuring: Seasons of change for Kadi Billman (cover story) LSTC remembers Herb Chilstrom Graduate upholds small church attitude |
![]() | Fall 2019 Featuring: First Homecoming a success (cover story) Operations staff keeps LSTC going CCME leads in Christian-Muslim relations Alum establishes LGBTQ scholarship |
![]() | Summer 2019 Featuring: Celebrating 2019 commencement (cover story) LRWC provides a home Graduates ready for ministry (Derrick, Rosa-Fuentes, Markose, Hickey) Christine Wenderoth: a life in libraries Gordon Braatz: good and faithful servant |
![]() | Winter/Spring 2019 Featuring: Remembering James Kenneth Echols (cover story) Carrying on Gordon J. Straw’s legacy (cover story) Katie’s Closet stocked for students Congregational creativity supports seminaries |
![]() | Fall 2018 Featuring: Meet LSTC’s new faculty – Wickware, Lim, Wagner (cover story) Ismael Calderón’s journey to Jesus and LSTC Leading the growing Lutheran Church of Liberia How Village supports international students Mark Van Scharrel reflects on his LSTC years Donors help relieve seminary debt |
![]() | Summer 2018 Featuring: Commencement 2018 (cover story) Remembering Bill Lesher Giving thanks for Vitor Westhelle Profiles of 2018 graduates (Clark, Burford-Berry, Bass, Meyers) Retirements: Baeder, Perry, Shelley Sarah Stegemoeller: distinguished service |
![]() | Winter/Spring 2018 Featuring: Erik Christensen on telling stories Gospel choir sets 30th year lofty goal Military chaplaincy as public church Donor Patricia Nordstrand on giving |