LSTC Fall Alumni Gathering: Connect on Cornell! The LSTC Alumni Board is proud to announce this year’s fall alumni gathering: Connect on Cornell! Get ready for an event like no other as we bring you the highly anticipated fall alumni gathering of 2023! This year, we look forward to bringing you the perfect blend of […]
Clark Olson-Smith, MDiv ’06 on Faith, Community, and the Path Ahead For LSTC Alum Clark Olson-Smith MDiv ’06 the call to ministry came unexpectedly, during college. “At the time,” he remembers, “I was struggling with feelings of inadequacy, and not feeling like God was giving this blessed assurance that I had been promised.” During this […]
Constancy in Change: LSTC A poem by: Rev. Dr. Arthur Turfa From the Upper Peninsula and theMississippi Valley they came, also from the Prairies and West Addison Street,with libraries in languages of their ancestors, vestments, and the memoriesof all those places. Unity inspired a new seminary in the shadowof a university. Modern was its design, […]
LSTC alum Pemba Buthelezi, former Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southern Africa, returns to visit LSTC alum Bishop Paulos Phembukuthula Buthelezi of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southern Africa (ELCSA) and his spouse Gretta visited LSTC on April 15-18. They met with LSTC students, faculty, and staff and attended an interfaith iftar, LSTC’s […]
LSTC Remembers Dr. Mark Bangert Dr. Mark Bangert, John H. Tietjen Professor emeritus of Pastoral Ministry: Worship and Church Music at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC), died February 12, 2023. He was 84 years old. He was a beloved professor, choral and artistic director, and worship leader. A funeral service will be […]
Doctoral candidate Denise Rector awarded DSIR Fellowship LSTC doctoral candidate Denise Rector loves teaching and believes her new fellowship as the Doctoral Scholar in Residence (DSIR) at Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, is a perfect fit. Rector (2021, ThM) said the opportunity is a gift to her teaching and to her […]
Brooke Petersen on finding meaning in bivocational practice For Brooke Petersen (2006, MDiv), coming back to teach and serve as the director of the MDiv and MA programs and coordinator of candidacy at LSTC has been a full-circle experience. “There have long been questions deep in my heart that were made even more real in […]
Michael Fick: his LSTC memories aren’t tied to a building When Michael Fick (MDiv, 2004) first heard about the impending sale of LSTC’s property he felt “a kind of sadness.” But as he reflected on the reality of the situation, different thoughts and feelings emerged. “I began to think about what I loved most about […]
Louise Britts on parish ministry, chaplaincy, knowing God’s love Louise Britts (2002, MDiv) couldn’t figure out why a team of doctors and nurses and her own father were talking to her “down there on that table” when it was clear that she was above them, in a place of perfect serenity, surrounded by God’s love. […]
