Congressional Candidate and Alum Sarah Trone Garriott on the Power of Showing Up “When I was a chaplain at Children’s Memorial Hospital, I would spend the night walking the hallways,” says Sarah Trone Garriott, MDiv ’08 and Iowa State Senator. It was in those spaces that she would encounter the parents who couldn’t sleep, the […]
Alum Bonnie J. Flessen Publishes Frontier Man LSTC is proud to announce that alum Dr. Bonnie J. Flessen, PhD ’10, has published a new novel, Frontier Man, with Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Set in the first-century Roman world, Frontier Man follows Batos, a former Roman cavalryman who once served on […]
“I’ve Learned that God is Rarely Early, but Never Late:” LSTC Alum John Kotovsky MDiv ‘98 on Philanthropic Giving and the Future of the Church When John Kotovsky walked into the partner’s office at Arthur Andersen and declared, “I quit,” he didn’t have another job lined up. What he did have was faith that something […]
Honoring the Rev. Kara Baylor MDiv ’00, a Pastor of Courage and Joy This semester, LSTC students will receive a meaningful gift, a set of stoles donated by the family of the Rev. Kara Frances Baylor (1970–2023), LSTC MDiv ’00. Pastor Kara lived her ministry with courageous love, first at Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church in […]
Breaking the Chains: A Church Without Walls By Jennifer Stone Next year, Breaking the Chains Church will celebrate its 10th anniversary—a milestone in a ministry that began in one of the least likely of places: inside a correctional facility. For Pastor David Rebey, MDiv ’20, the congregation’s current leader, the story is one of persistence, […]
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Joseph Sittler with a Bench Dedication at Minnehaha Park On June 28, 2025, friends, former students, and admirers gathered at Minnehaha Regional Park in Minneapolis to celebrate the life and enduring influence of renowned Lutheran theologian Dr. Joseph Sittler. The occasion marked the dedication of a park bench […]
Why TEEM is the best thing we’ve done in theological education in the ELCA And why that bodes well for our new Presiding Bishop, Yehiel Curry By Christian Scharen The Lutheran tradition is, by all accounts, a university tradition. The Lutheran branch of Christianity emerged from the work of an Augustinian monk and professor at […]
LSTC Celebrates the Election of Alum Yehiel Curry (TEEM ’09, MDiv ’13) as Presiding Bishop of the ELCA “I won’t end my career in a Bishop’s office. I’m a builder, I’m a mission developer, and I have to build it again.” — Bishop Yehiel Curry, July 30, 2025 With those words, the Rev. Yehiel Curry, […]
Eleven LSTC Alumni Lead as Bishops: Guiding the ELCA into the Future Across the ELCA, the call to bold, faithful leadership is being answered by eleven Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago alumni currently serving as bishops in synods across the country. These leaders, shaped by their theological formation at LSTC, are guiding congregations and […]
LSTC Celebrates Re-Election of Alum Bishop Yehiel Curry as Bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago joyfully celebrates the re-election of the Rev. Yehiel Curry as Bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Bishop Curry received 265 of 388 legal votes on the […]
