As I continue to share with you some of the key data points about theological education that we think about and discuss regularly at Luther Seminary, we are grateful to be making strategic decisions from a position of financial strength. In fact, our financial position is the strongest it has been in well over a […]

Theological education, like the church itself, is in a period of significant transition. At Luther Seminary, we are deeply engaged in conversations about what it means to faithfully steward our mission for the long term. How can we educate leaders not only for today’s church but for Christian communities that will look very different in […]

He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. —Luke 1:51b-53 Even before his birth, Jesus is turning the world upside down. Mary of Nazareth […]

So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us. —Romans 12:5-6b The variety on display in creation—plant and animal, land and sea, sky and space—expresses divine delight, generosity, and intent. God created a diverse […]

If the church is indeed to be a long table with a seat for everyone, then people of all lived experiences must feel deeply the inclusion promised to them by Jesus. Jesus prays three times in John 17 “that they may all be one.” In the climactic conclusion of his last supper with the disciples, […]

I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. —John 15:5 In the transformational work we have been doing at Luther Seminary in recent years, it is clear that we are called to be a seminary […]