40 Years of Speaking Truth to Power Rev. Dr. Kim Beckmann is a master weaver of words. Which is why it’s no surprise that the homiletics teacher’s own story at LSTC, through all its many twists and turns, found a poetic ending in the same place it began: the courtyard of the Lowrey building. The […]
Apply Now for 2025-2026 ELCA Fund for Leaders Scholarships! The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Fund for Leaders is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2025–2026 academic year. While several scholarship opportunities are now open, the FFL Direct Full-Tuition Scholarship is a unique opportunity for future church leaders to receive a full-tuition scholarship to […]
ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton’s Historic Visit to LSTC Reaffirms Commitment to Lutheran-Jewish Reconciliation The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago was deeply honored to welcome ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton for her first visit to campus, where she met with institutional leaders, took a tour, and participated in a powerful reflection on the ELCA’s […]
How We Got Here & Where We Could Go Nearly every school like ours faces unprecedented, epochal, rapid, irreversible change All across the horizon of formal, accredited, degree-based theological education (seminaries, divinity schools, or schools of theology), matters are more challenging than encouraging. Nearly every school like ours faces unprecedented, epochal, rapid, irreversible change. This […]
MDiv Student Shemiah Curry Answers the Call Shemiah Curry’s journey to becoming a seminarian was not something she actively sought, but a calling she couldn’t ignore. While working as a teacher in North Carolina, she reconnected with her undergraduate Bible study ministry, which had transitioned into a young adult ministry. When the pastor leading this […]
No Time Like the Present: Learning Communities Takes Flight For Lane Lewis, building faith-based community has always been at the forefront of his priorities. Lane and his wife, Johanna, had been members of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Naperville, Illinois, for twenty-seven years and now Trinity Lutheran in Greenville, South Carolina for the past two […]
Walking in Faith: Alum Miho Yasukawa on Pastoral Care, the Power of Connection, and Returning to her Roots For LSTC alum Miho Yasukawa, the journey from Japan to the United States to pursue her MA and MDiv at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago is a testament to the power of divine calling and […]
Reverend Til Bauer’s Sabbatical Journey: Exploring Faith, Culture, and Creativity in Chicago Reverend Tilman Bauer, affectionately known as Til Bauer, is embarking on a transformative sabbatical semester at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. His primary goal is to gain practical insights and knowledge that will enrich his ministry back home at the Lutheran […]
At the Forefront of Contemporary Ministry: The TEEM Program at LSTC Theological Education for Emerging Ministries, otherwise known as the TEEM program, is a leadership formation process that authorizes leaders from distinguished Word and Sacrament Communities who have served in an emerging ministry site to become fully authorized ministers in the ELCA. TEEM scholarship at […]
LSTC hosts ELCA bishops for the first time since pandemic From February 27 to March 1, 2023, Bishop Kevin Strickland of the Southeastern Synod, Bishop Tessa Moon Leiseth of the Eastern North Dakota Synod, and Bishop Craig Miller of the Upper Susquehanna Synod came to Hyde Park to meet with LSTC students and faculty, lead […]
