1950s Gerhard Knutson ’57 Th.M. died on March 3. In addition to serving as a pastor both in the United States and Norway, he was bishop of the Northwest Synod for eight years. He wrote “Ministry to Inactives: A Manual for Establishing a Listening Witness to Inactive Members,” as well as a book about his […]

Mark Granquist, professor and Lloyd and Annelotte Svendsbye Chair in Church History, is the author of “The Other Luther Seminary in Minnesota: The Joint Synod of Ohio Seminary in St. Paul” in the Journal of the Lutheran Historical Society, vol. 12, 2022, and “Rereading Niebuhr’s ‘The Kingdom of God in America’” in Word & World, […]

Faith+Lead Academy offers “online theological education for everyone”—live and on-demand courses that tap into the treasures of the Christian tradition to equip people to love God and neighbor. Recent courses aim to support people in rural and small-town communities, and those who are called to ministry with them. Developed through listening sessions with rural congregations, […]

Word & World, the faculty journal of Luther Seminary, introduced a new website in August. “Although Word & World is a print journal, we wanted to make our articles accessible in a variety of ways for our readers. An up-to-date website is crucial to this strategy,” says Mark Granquist, Lloyd and Annelotte Svendsbye Chair in […]

In May, Luther Seminary adopted a land acknowledgement statement to be read by the president at the opening convocation of each academic year and at commencement: Luther Seminary is on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the homelands of the Dakhóta Oyáte. The Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Cheyenne, Oto, Iowa, and the Sac & Fox also inhabited Minnesota land. We […]

Luther Seminary has awarded the first Reverend Janet Karvonen-Montgomery (’15 M.Div.) Preaching Fellowship to Jenna Olson Popp ’23 M.Div. The fellowship supports a year of travel with the goal of providing freedom for the study of preaching in a variety of contexts and time for experiences related to preaching and worship. Olson Popp plans to […]