LSTC Class of 2024 Launches Fundraising Campaign for Pero Center As the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) celebrates the achievements of the Class of 2024, the community is invited to participate in a special initiative to support future students. The graduates have launched a fundraising campaign to benefit the Rev. Dr. Albert ‘Pete’ […]
2024 Commencement and Baccalaureate Ceremonies Commencement exercises for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago’s (LSTC’s) class of 2024 will be held Sunday, May 19 at 2:30 p.m. at St. Paul & the Redeemer located at 4945 S. Dorchester Ave in Chicago. Live streaming of the commencement service will be available here: https://business.facebook.com/events/379204298425990/. A reception […]
LSTC Celebrates 163rd Commencement with a Message of Hope for the Future On Sunday, May 21, 2023, LSTC candidates for the certificate in Theological Education for Emerging Ministries, the Master of Arts degrees, Master of Divinity degrees, and Doctoral degrees processed for the last time past the building at 1100 E. 55th Street, the building […]
2023 Commencement and Baccalaureate Ceremonies Commencement exercises for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago’s (LSTC’s) class of 2023 will be held in person at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. The church is located at 5472 South Kimbark Avenue in Chicago. There will be a reception […]
A joyous, in-person 2022 commencement The weather cooperated and being together in person to mark the accomplishments that led to this day provided an air of satisfaction and joy. Eleven alumni from the Classes of 2021 and 2020, who had been invited back to walk, were among the honored graduates. Paul C. Pribbenow, president of […]
School in motion: A letter from President Nieman After a two-year hiatus, our journey resumed. From the chapel we went outside, turned north on University to 54th Place, walked one block east, then south on Woodlawn and due east again to the doors of St. Thomas the Apostle. Commencement returned to our Hyde Park home […]
Commencement 2020: A year of asking, and now facing, ‘What’s next?’ In campus apartments and in homes well beyond Chicago, LSTC 2021 graduates gathered around screens to “officially” graduate on Sunday, May 16, as they watched the seminary’s 161st commencement video released on YouTube and Facebook. This was the second year the global pandemic prevented […]
Maddie Tallman & Corey Bergman: ‘Getting married during seminary was a hoot’ Maddie Tallman, from Maryland, and Corey Bergman, from Minnesota, met on a CTA bus as their Orientation groups returned to campus from excursions showing students how to use public transit. They had a lot of classes together and their core group grew closer, “especially as we navigated […]
