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How We Got Here & Where We Could Go

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

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

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 […]

At the Forefront of Contemporary Ministry: The TEEM Program at LSTC

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

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 […]

Spring 2023 Learning Communities Brings Martin Luther to the Forefront

Spring 2023 Learning Communities Brings Martin Luther to the Forefront This spring, LSTC is proud to announce that Professor of systematic theology and esteemed Luther Scholar Candace Kohli will be offering an extraordinary, free, 4-part series, sponsored by LSTC’s Learning Communities, which will be open to the public and hosted live in person on Sundays […]

Candace Kohli brings her Luther passion to LSTC

Candace Kohli brings her Luther passion to LSTC Perhaps it’s fitting that in seminary Candace Kohli was so obsessed with Martin Luther that in the middle of the night she’d wake up thinking about Luther and his ideas. “I would lay in bed racking my brain trying to figure out how Luther was saying the […]

Candace Kohli on Luther, empathy & critical context

Candace Kohli on Luther, empathy & critical context Candace Kohli, assistant professor of Lutheran Systematic Theology and Global Lutheranism, can clearly pinpoint what made Luther stand out amongst other theologians during her time in seminary: “There was something about the way he described things, the interventions he was making, and the boldness with which he […]

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