Dr. Susan Leigh Brooks is a lifelong literacy educator with a passion for learning and teaching. After more than three decades of teaching reading and writing to learners from preschool age to graduate students, she currently serves as the Director of Faith+Lead Academy. Brooks creates online courses to encourage and equip people in their faith….
Stephanie Luedtke is a leadership coach, consultant, educator, and creator whose work integrates creativity, learning, and community development. With 25 years of experience across congregations, schools, nonprofit settings, and regional leadership initiatives, she brings a collaborative and future-focused approach to supporting leaders and organizations in times of change. Stephanie is an ordained pastor, a licensed…
Rev. Jeff Challberg is the manager of Clinical Pastor Education at Fairview Health Services. He has worked in chaplaincy and spiritual care education since 2014, and has served in both acute care and senior living contexts. He is ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, and received his MDiv from the University of Chicago Divinity…
Rev. Dr. Steven Thomason is an artist, pastor, and teacher, passionate about studying and teaching the Bible. He earned a Ph.D. in Congregational Mission and Leadership from Luther Seminary and is the Dean of the Chapel and Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation and Discipleship for Luther Seminary. He is the author of “A Cartoonist’s Guide…
The Rev. Dr. Kathryn Skoglund is a retired ELCA pastor. With M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Luther Seminary, she has served God and the church in a variety of ways. Skoglund worked as an interim pastor for Eglesia Luterana Paz y Esperanza, and as a pastor for Trinity Lutheran, St. John’s Lutheran. She also served…
Rev. Dr. Hollie Holt-Woehl holds a Ph.D. in Pastoral Care and Counseling, with an emphasis on the congregation from Luther Seminary (2007). Her dissertation, “Congregations as Trinitarian Communities: Accepting, Welcoming, and Supporting People with Chronic Mental Illness,” explores congregations welcoming people with mental illness into congregation life. Ordained in 1993 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church…
Rebecca Guengerich is the Director of Spirituality and Wellness at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in San Antonio, Texas. She provides spiritual formation programs and caring ministry for the congregation. Rebecca is an educator and works as a teacher, as a community educator for the March of Dimes, and as a Spiritual Director in…
From Pastor Keith Zeh’s baptism at the age of 12 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Holy Spirit has been stirring in his life. He has been in many different roles over the course of his ministry career. Zeh started as an Associate Pastor at Calvary Lutheran Church in Bemidji, Minnesota, and…
Michele Bryant Powell is no stranger to grief after losing both of her parents and most recently her husband to terminal illnesses. With more than 25 years of experience in the areas of pastoral care counseling, support group facilitation, leadership training, and development and rehabilitation counseling, Michele values supporting others as they journey through the…
Dr. Michael Binder is an assistant professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. His teaching focuses on starting new congregations, leading change, and practicing Christian witness and evangelism amidst secular cultures. Binder was a founding pastor of Mill City Church in northeast Minneapolis. He was the director of preaching…
Mark Tranvik is a parish pastor at heart. He spent almost ten years (1984-93) as a pastor at Cross of Glory Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. It was a rich experience, full of struggle and joy. While teaching about the Reformation or a theological topic, he pays attention to what is happening in the…
Leah Challberg, L.I.C.S.W., owns and operates Rootwise Mental Wellness as a mental health therapist. She was the co-lead pastor at Northeast United Methodist in Minneapolis from 2018-2022. Her therapy work has led to an expertise in trauma, aging, chronic illness, spirituality, and grief and loss. Leah obtained her M.Div. from the University of Chicago Divinity…
Dr. Alicia Granholm is senior director of Faith+Lead at Luther Seminary and a leadership and church consultant based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She helps pastors and leaders engage culture to make a lasting impact. For nearly two decades, she has trained, equipped, and empowered followers of Jesus to engage their local communities by contextualizing the Gospel…
Dr. Joy Jittaun Moore is the President of Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and former Professor of Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Moore established the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA;…
Pastor Jon Anderson serves as Director of Rural Ministry at Luther Seminary. He grew up on a dairy farm south of Belgrade, Minnesota (between Willmar and Sauk Rapids). His ancestors came to this land in the late 1850s, and his family lives there to this day. His family farm is located on land that was…
