Please come to this glorious celebration!  There's still time to register (by OCTOBER 17).  For details, go to Luther Lecture details.  To register go to [email protected].

 

Ted Peters, PLTS Professor of

Systematic Theology has been

named the Martin E. Marty Professor

of Religion and the Academy at

St. Olaf College for the 2009 calendar

year. 

 

Welcoming Dr. Peters to St. Olaf, President David R. Anderson said, "We are grateful that Professor Peters has been able to accommodate his busy schedule in order to spend time with us and share his expertise, and we look forward to welcoming him to St. Olaf as the college's second Martin E. Marty Professor of Religion and the Academy."

 

Peters, a renowned author and scholar whose work focuses on the dialogue between theology and science, will serve in this capacity for the entire 2009 calendar year. During his residency, he will teach during the Interim and fall semester, sponsor colloquia and dialogues with faculty and students, and lead a faculty seminar.

 

The tenants at the Delaware apartments, where senior MDiv Justin Baxter is the manager, received funding through the Lilly Foundation Faith Active in Love grant to begin organic gardening there.  They have been able to build a small-scale urban garden with eleven plots utilizing a drip irrigation system.  Those who are growing their vegetables in the raised beds are committing themselves to a way of gardening that practices biodynamics: All organic, sustainability, composting, proper crop rotation, and water management. 

 

The first planting took place less

than a month ago and folks have

already had meals from their

gardens!  Look for regular 

updates and pictures both

here and on the PLTS website.

Julie McNitt, MDiv 2008, will be ordained on October 26 at Atonement Lutheran Church, Denver,  CO.  She will serve at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Littleton, CO.

Darwin Garton, TEEM 2008, will be ordained and installed on October 17 at Edensburg Lutheran Church, Malmo, NE.