The Rev. Dr. Brad R. Braxton will deliver the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Lecture in the Augustana Chapel at LSTC on Tuesday, June 29, at 7:00 p.m.

 The Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence will deliver the Don M. Wardlaw Lectures at 11:30 a.m. in the Augustana Chapel at LSTC on Monday, July 5, and Tuesday, July 6.

Dr. Braxton is the former pastor of the Riverside Church in New York City. He has served as Associate Professor of Homiletics and New Testament at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn., and was the Jessie Ball duPont Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Biblical Studies at Wake Forest University Divinity School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Dr. Braxton is a frequent guest preacher and lecturer at churches and conferences.
 

Dr. Florence is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga. Dr. Florence is interested in historical, theological, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways preaching engages other fields and different traditions. Her research focuses on testimony, feminist theology, the role of experience in preaching, and the history of preaching women.

 

Celebrate the inauguration of the newest endowed chair at LSTC, the Marilyn and Ralph Klein Chair in Old Testament Studies, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September. Dr. Ralph Klein will preach at the worship service in Augustana Chapel. Dr. Esther Menn will be installed as the first occupant of the chair.

 

At 1 p.m., Dr. Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University, will present a free lecture. Dr. Machinist took his first course in Old Testament from Klein.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

ELCA Director for Stewardship, Ed Kruse, leads a free workshop at LSTC on Saturday, October 16, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Sponsored by LSTC's Tithing and Stewardship Foundation, this workshop will get you and your congregation thinking about stewardship in a new way. [ Register at the Tithing and Stewardship Foundation website.]

Pastor Beck brings experience as a spiritual director, in developing leaders who are able to serve people from diverse cultures, working with seminary students, and leading congregations. The LSTC community looks forward to the gifts she will share and call out from us," said President James Kenneth Echols. [ Read more ] 

 

The Rev. Dr. Cheryl Stewart Pero has been appointed director of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's Multicultural Center. Ms. Kimberley Ferguson has been appointed associate director of the center. Stewart Pero's one-year appointments begin July 1, 2010.

Stewart Pero succeeds the Rev. Dr. José David Rodríguez, who will complete 18 months as director.

Next month, LSTC launches a redesigned website. Web Manager (and E.pistle producer) Roger Bottorff,  Webmaster Tyler Rasmussen, and Graphic Designer Ann Rezny have been creating a new look and building new navigation for the site over the last six months.

A Web Redesign Task Force composed of faculty, administration, and students, gave us valuable feedback and direction on the new look.

You'll see the results of our work in next month's E.pistle, which will also be getting a makeover to complement the look and feel of the new website.