Secularism and pluralism
Once again MIchael Jinkins, the president of Louisville Seminary, offers a pointed reflection on the challenges of living in the global and diverse world we inh... Read more.
Congregational Resource for Brenda Olson’s Presentation
Examples of Mentoring Programs in Urban Contexts > See video of Brenda’s summary here Kinship is a community-based, one-to-one youth mentoring program.... Read more.
Reflections on “Urban Ministry and the First Third of Life” with Brenda Olson
By Allison Tunseth, MA Children, Youth and Family student at Luther Seminary Brenda Olson’s presentation and article on faith formation and the urban chur... Read more.
Brenda Olson at Missional Church Consultation
“Urban Ministry and the First Third of Life — Joint Venture: The Missional Call to Accompaniment” Youth ministry in the urban context is reall... Read more.
Congregational Resource for David Lose’s Presentation
In reflecting on David Lose’s presentation about Finding Ourselves in the Biblical Story, this scripture text comes to mind. Joel 1:2-4 – Tell... Read more.
Reflections on “Finding Ourselves in the Biblical Story” with David Lose
By Karen Gieseke, MA Children, Youth and Family student at Luther Seminary Identity is at issue. The Missional Church Consultation explored identity as God&rsqu... Read more.
David Lose at Missional Church Consultation
“Finding Ourselves in the Biblical Story” What if reading Scripture wasn’t about dates, places and people that lived a long time ago, but inst... Read more.
5 trends in social media and religion
Elizabeth Drescher, author of Tweet if You Jesus, and a plenary speaker at next year’s missional church consultation, has a lovely short piece up at Reli... Read more.
Conversations around Envisioning the Future of Faith Formation in the First Third of Life with John Roberto
By Laurie Neill, MDIV Children, Youth and Family senior at Luther Seminary The reality that John Roberto brought to light for me was that it is not only possibl... Read more.
Full Circle Training Activity
By Tom Schwolert Influenced by relational faith circles “To encircle young people with authentic, available, and affirming adults who support them in the... Read more.
Place Matters: A Reflection on Mike King’s Presentation
By Dr. Nancy Going Place matters. Mike King looks at both the church and the process of faith formation from a pretty unique perspective. Longevity. ... Read more.
John Roberto at Missional Church Consultation
“Envisioning the Future of Faith Formation in the First Third of Life” The first decade of the 21st century has brought dramatic change affecting vi... Read more.
Mike King at Missional Church Consultation
“Thrive: Curating Environments for Vibrant Faith Communities” Mike King How do we move from being programmers who do events and programs that tend t... Read more.
Dr. Ryan Bolger at Missional Church Consultation
“Following Jesus in Participatory culture: Faithful Living in a World Mediated by technology” Dr. Ryan Bolger, Part 1 above Click HERE for Par... Read more.
Space to be Church: A Reflection on Ryan Bolger’s Presentation
By Sandy Troyan, MA Children, Youth and Family senior at Luther Seminary Conversation on the First Third of Life The conversation is alive, yet holds two domina... Read more.
Training leaders for a world that no longer exists
Dr. David Lose weighs in on the future of seminaries, and theological education, with this provocative statement: I’d argue the single most significant ca... Read more.
Missional Church Consultation on the First Third of Life
Dr. Terri Elton discusses the Missional Church and the First Third of Life How does the church remain faithful, while also being open and imaginative? The churc... Read more.
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
My biased suspicions about a book on faith practices were that it will probably offer some way for the reader to try harder at adding spiritual workouts to one... Read more.
Lessons from Apple?
I’m fascinated by this reflection in the Harvard Business Review blog. James Allworth dares to suggest that the pursuit of profit alone is not the key to ... Read more.
Interim ministry as a missional opportunity
Recent Luther DMin alum, Chris Hagen, talks about his research project which sought to approach interim ministry not as an effort to help a congregation “... Read more.
Earthly death = living proclamation?
by Christie Hallenbeck “Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”... Read more.
