Calling as Covenant By Lyndsay Monsen How solo backpacking over 3,000 miles alongside my seminary career aided in my discernment Starting seminary fresh off a 2,194.3-mile thru hike of the Appalachian Trail, I was acutely aware of the lessons God was teaching me through nature. When I came into LSTC’s orientation three years ago, I […]
How CCME Promotes Interfaith Engagement to Foster Understanding For Sara Trumm, education and engagement go hand in hand. Trumm currently serves as Director of A Center of Christan-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice (CCME) at LSTC. Founded in 2006, CCME fosters and deepens relations between Christians and Muslims as a significant part of its broader […]
“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 […]
Ten Bishops, One Seminary LSTC alumni are leading a changing church I wasn’t raised in the church,” recalls Bishop Tracey Breashears Schultz, DMin ’14. “My faith came to me through my paternal grandmother. Whenever she would come and visit us, we would do things we didn’t always do as a family, like pray before meals […]
What a Return on Your Investment Looks Like The faithful formation of the ELCA’s next presiding bishop By Rhiannon Koehler On the night he was elected Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Bishop Yehiel Curry, then serving as bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, limped to the podium (golf mishap, he confessed) […]
Faith formation meets flexibility In her sixties, a former tech professional finds a new calling — and a new kind of seminary When Pamela Blythe clicked “enroll” on an online theology module earlier this summer, she wasn’t just signing up for a course. She was, in her words, “cracking open a door that had been […]
Opening the Digital Doors How LSTC and the ELCA Innovation Lab are reimagining theological education, together It’s 8:00 p.m. on a Thursday. After a long day of meetings and family responsibilities, the executive director of a nonprofit organization opens her laptop. As the screen light fills her office, she feels refreshed; a renewed sense of […]
Stepping Into the Call How lstc’s sam program equips new leaders for the church On a windswept Sunday morning in rural Wisconsin, a small Lutheran congregation gathers in its century-old sanctuary. Their pastor retired last year, and the search for a successor has stretched on for months. Yet worship continues, led faithfully by someone who, […]
Promise, Call, and Courage President Shauna K. Hannan on the future of LSTC Rev. Dr. Shauna K. Hannan reflects on the theme “A Promise Fulfilled,” by centering God’s faithfulness. “For me, ‘a promise fulfilled’ immediately points me to God as the one who fulfills promises.” she says, “Our God has called us into this endeavor […]
Creating New Pathways for Innovation in Theological Education By Alisha Green Over the last three decades, Rev. Dr. Christian Scharen has seen a precipitous decline in the church and theological education. Younger people in particular have shown increasingly high rates of disaffiliation. These discouraging trends sparked Scharen’s ongoing research journey to seek new approaches and […]
