Winter-Spring 2013 - Lutheran Theological Seminary

LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT GETTYSBURG
W INTER / SPR ING 2013
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Pathways to Change
Greening Gettysburg Seminary, p. 8-9, 11 | Crossroads Campaign Successes, p. 12-13
| Religion and Media Focus, p. 19 | Seminary Ridge Museum on Track For July 1
Opening, p. 3, 18 | Changes to Campus Landscape, p. 7 | Remembering Gritsch,
Thulin, Koons, p. 16-17 | Alumni/ae news p. 10, 20-21
SEMINARY NOTEBOOK
RECENTLY
ELECTED TO
SEM BOARD
President Michael L. Cooper-White
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¡Adelante y Arriba!
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Gettysburg Seminary finds great value in its month-long January term (“J-term”), offering
intensive courses, the unusual and creative experiences that cannot be gained during
the regular semesters and even international travel seminars. It was my privilege to join
Professor Maria Erling in leading a group of “peregrinos” (pilgrims) to the Central American
country of El Salvador this January term. While in the land of “the Savior,” we were hosted
by Bishop Medardo Gomez and the valiant saints of the Lutheran Church of El Salvador. Our
trip was coordinated by ELCA Central America regional representative Stephen Deal. While
many conclude that life is much better than during the civil war years, the Salvadoran people
continue to struggle with staggering poverty, violence and street crime fueled by escalating
gang warfare. In the midst of such fear, courageous church leaders continue to give bold
witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of our Lord’s resurrection. During our
sojourn in this tiny land, we heard the phrase, ¡Adelante y arriba! which means “onward and
upward!” Our students and we who traveled with them were inspired in our own callings to
help the Church in our context advance and grow in its mission.
A word of thanks to all our Crossroads Campaign contributors: Six years ago, the
Seminary’s Board of Directors adopted my recommendation that we launch a comprehensive
campaign to grow the endowment, increase student scholarships and endowed faculty chairs,
and address some pressing campus development needs. Originally adopting a goal of $10
million, this past summer the campaign drew to a close having surpassed $23 million in gifts
and pledges. Achieving this response amidst the most challenging economic climate in my
lifetime causes me to exude, “Thanks be to God and to the Seminary’s great cloud of
generous supporters!” In addition to this undergirding of our core mission of theological
education, with our joint venture partner, the Adams County Historical Society, and a host
of others invested in the project, the Seminary has garnered upwards of $12 million over the
past decade in order to rehabilitate Schmucker Hall to create a stunning Seminary Ridge
Museum.
As we anticipate its grand opening on July 1st 2013, to commemorate the 150th anniversary
of the great battle fought on our campus and nearby, we move onward and upward in what
I believe will become one of Lutheranism’s most prominent public witness venues. We will
invite the nation and the world to engage the great questions of war and peace, conflict
and reconciliation, suffering and healing within a uniquely theological context. While our
campaign gratitude might suggest that Gettysburg Seminary has ample resources to carry out
its mission, the reality remains that we face huge fiscal challenges in the current and coming
years. While congregations, our supporting synods and the ELCA churchwide expression
remain strongly committed to theological education, their capacities to fund the seminary
continues to be reduced.
In its budget-balancing challenges of late, the Board of Directors concluded that only by
means of a much more robust “annual fund” can we sustain a superb faculty, steward our
magnificent campus, and offer students even more generous financial aid and scholarships.
Hence, I express gratitude to the scores of “second mile givers” whose generosity enabled
us to launch the Scholars of Abundance offer whereby all students completing internship or
three semesters of study toward diaconal ministry service will complete their final year tuition-free. As an invitation to support our seminarians arrives in your mailbox or via e-mail, I
hope you will respond with a hearty ¡Adelante y arriba!
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New Faces Among
Board Members
Six new members were
elected to the Seminary’s
Board of Directors at synod
assemblies or synod council meetings.
1. Ms. Linda Chinnia,
Assistant to the Bishop
of the DE MD Synod is
from Baltimore.
2. Ms. Candice Littell,
who is based in the NW
Penn Synod, lives in Erie.
3. The Rev. Linda
McElroy Thomas,
from Sommerset, PA,
has been sent by the
Allegheny Synod.
4. Mr. Steven
Gunderson, former
member of Congress,
was appointed by the
Metro DC Synod 4.
5. Rev. Carla Volland
was sent by the Upper
Susquehanna Synod.
6. Dr. Greg Yothers, from
Greensberg, was elected
by the SW Penn Synod.
Dr. Susan K. Hedahl,
Prof. of Homiletics,
Resigns to Focus
on Health
Following two
decades of dedicated professorial
service, during
which she mentored hundreds
of seminarians in
the art of preaching, the Rev. Dr.
Susan K. Hedahl
announced her
resignation from
teaching duties
as of August 31,
2012. The first
recipient of the
distinguished
Herman G.
Stuempfle Chair
of the Proclamation of the Word
at Gettysburg
Seminary, Hedahl underwent surgery in the summer and was diagnosed
with brain cancer. Following consultation with her
doctors, she concluded
that the rigors of treatment
would make it impossible
for her to continue teaching and fulfilling the many
other responsibilities of a
tenured faculty member.
In a letter, Hedahl stated,
“My teaching at the Seminary in the past two decades has been a privilege
unlike any other offered me
in my life. With gratitude
for the multiple partnerships we share in proclaiming the Gospel, partnerships that will never cease,
I remain thankful that in
my flesh I may proclaim!”
A native of Minnesota,
Hedahl received her undergraduate degree from the
University of Minnesota.
She taught English as a
missionary in Tanzania,
East Africa from 1969-1972,
after which she studied
and received the Master of
Divinity degree at Luther
Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ordained to the
Lutheran ministry in 1975,
she was among the pioneering first generation of
Lutheran women pastors in
this country. She served in
campus and parish ministry at University Lutheran
Church of Hope, Minneapolis, and with two other
Minnesota congregations.
While engaged in graduate study for her Ph.D. in
rhetoric and homiletics
from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley,
CA, Hedahl served eleven
Lutheran congregations
as interim pastor. She
began her full-time teaching career at Gettysburg
Seminary in 1992.
In addition to her work
with students in the classroom, Hedahl directed
the Seminary’s advanced
degree program for a
number of years, and also
re-launched and edited its
academic publication, the
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NEWS
On Track for Opening July 1, 2013
Iconic Seminary
Building Transformed Into
Seminary Ridge Museum
Rehab Complete, Exhibits
Nearing Completion
The Gettysburg Seminary
Ridge Museum marked the
completion of the rehabilitation of Schmucker Hall
in October and remains
on track for opening for
preview tour experiences
in the spring (Gettysburg
Spring Academy). The rehabilitation adaptively reuses
the 1832 Seminary building
as a state of the art museum interpreting Samuel
Schmucker’s anti-slavery
advocacy, and the battle on
July 1, 1863, as well as its
role as a field hospital treating 600 soldiers.
Considered by many to
be “the most important Civil War building not in the
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Spring Convocation
Expands, Becomes
Spring Academy
2013
Gettysburg
Spring
Academy
“Proclaiming Liberty: The Unfinished
Work of Freedom,
Faith, and Living
in a Fallen World”
launches Gettysburg Seminary’s first Spring Academy. It incorporates the
Seminary’s traditional Spring Convocation and offers a
weeklong series of lectures, presentations and workshops,
Seminary Ridge Museum early viewing access, worship
and other cultural and spiritually enriching activities.
The April 15-20, 2013 event includes nationally known
historian Allen Guelzo, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) chief executive Linda Hartke, Gettysburg Seminary faculty, Seminary Ridge Museum
staff, Music, Gettysburg! and the Dearest Home Band.
For more information visit:
www.Ltsg.edu/springacademy.
The page includes a pdf of the brochure and a registration form. Questions may be directed to tel.
717-338-3000 ext. 2198 or [email protected].
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Nelson Strobert’s Awaited Biography of
Daniel Alexander Payne, 19th Century
Leader of African American Episcopal
Tradition Published
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The Lutheran Seminary at
Gettysburg announced the
fall 2012 publication of the
eagerly awaited biography
of its most distinguished
alumnus, Daniel Alexander
Payne, by its faculty member Dr. Nelson T. Strobert.
Strobert’s work, Daniel Alexander Payne: The
Venerable Preceptor of the
African Methodist Epis-
ican to receive a formal
theological education at
a Lutheran seminary in
America and one of the
first African Americans to
receive a higher education. Following study with
seminary founder Samuel S. Schmucker from 1835
to 1837, he was ordained
by the progressive Franckian (Lutheran) Synod and
then became a leader and a
bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
(AME), and president of
Wilberforce University.
South Carolina’s 1835
law prohibiting the education of African Americans forced Payne to abandon the successful school
he began for the children
of slaves and head north
to further his own education with Schmucker at
the new seminary in Gettysburg, PA. He was attracted to Schmucker’s
Payne was the first African
American to receive
a formal theological
education at a Lutheran
seminary in America
copal Church, is distributed through the University Press of America
and available at the Gettysburg Seminary bookstore. Payne’s modern biographer was Professor
of Christian Education in
the Paulssen-Hale Chair
of Church and Society and
Director of the Seminary’s
Multicultural Programs.
A free Black man, Payne
was the first African Amer-
anti-slavery writings and
received a student initiated scholarship to study
at Gettysburg Seminary.
This detailed biography
gives a portrait of the life of
Payne, highlighting his life
as educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist, and bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church. Payne was a
strong voice for the free-
dom of his enslaved brothers and sisters of color, as
well as a vociferous supporter of general and theological education. Upon
his election as president
of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, Payne
became the first African
American to lead an institution of higher education in the United States.
In addition to exploring
his work within the United States, this biography
highlights and includes
sources from Payne’s travels, work, and reception in
nineteenth century Europe.
Strobert taught Christian
education in the seminary
curriculum since 1987. The
Payne biography is especially timely due to the fact
that the Seminary Ridge
Museum, opening July 1st,
features Payne’s role as a
student, widely recognized
church leader and assertive advocate of abolition.
More information
about the book may be
found on the University Press of America website: https://rowman.
com/ISBN/9780761858676
The book is available
at the Seminary Bookstore (717-338-3005).
Paulssen-Hale Professor Nelson T. Strobert
Announces Retirement
Board Grants Professor Emeritus Status
With expressions of gratitude and vocational fulfillment, the Rev. Dr. Nelson
T. Strobert announced his
retirement as of January
31, 2013 from the regular full time faculty of the
Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg.
In a letter to Seminary
President Michael Cooper-White, the Professor of Christian Education in the Paulssen-Hale
Chair of Church and Society and Director of Multicultural Program wrote, “It
has been an honor and a
privilege to serve as pro-
Scholars of
Abundance
Gettysburg Seminary
announced a new
structure, beginning this
academic year, for its
scholarship distribution to
students entering degree
programs. In essence,
students entering the
Master of Divinity (M.Div.)
degree program will, upon
successful completion of
their internship in the third
year, receive a full tuition
scholarship for the last
30 credits of their degree,
effectively providing the
last year of academic
preparation tuition-free.
fessor of Christian education and to prepare students in this area of the
church’s ministry.” Strobert
also expressed appreciation for the collegial relationships at the Seminary,
writing, “Through my time
here, I have had the support of faculty colleagues
as well as the administration, staff and friends of
the seminary and I have
been blessed by this pastoral and theological adventure for twenty-five years.”
The Seminary Board of
Directors elected to give
Professor Strobert Emeritus
status at its January meeting and will recognize his
long term teaching ministry during its April meeting.
Strobert has taught Christian Education curricula at
the seminary since 1987,
served as host of “The Seminary Explores” weekly radio program, and served
as a teaching theologian
for the Lutheran church
through local, national and
international expressions.
He has guided the semi-
nary’s multicultural programming, its International Student Association, and
the annual Martin Luther
King Jr. Convocation. He
was elected by the faculty
to present the 2011 opening convocation lecture,
and is author of the new
biographical study of Daniel Alexander Payne, Gettysburg Seminary’s most
distinguished alumnus
(1835-1837), a the Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal tradition and
the first president of Wilberforce University (Ohio).
In his work in broader
ecclesiastical and academic circles, Strobert served
as a member of the Church
Council of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, a trustee with Wittenberg University, and
member of the American
Academy of Religion. He
has served with distinction in multiple capacities
with the National Council of
Churches, Religious Education Association, and numerous other national and
international organizations.
Strobert received undergraduate and advanced degrees from Hunter College
(NY, NY), Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, John Carroll University (University Heights,
OH), and the University
of Akron in Ohio. Following his ordination in 1973,
he served as a pastor in St.
Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
and Cleveland, Ohio before his election to the Gettysburg faculty in 1987.
“It has been my privilege
to know Nelson Strobert for
forty years since we were
both students at the Seminary in the 1970’s. My admiration and appreciation
for him is shared by countless colleagues, current
and former students, and
church leaders throughout
this country and beyond.
His conclusion of full-time
service marks the end of
an era in which Dr. Strobert
expanded the Seminary’s
horizons in so many dimensions.” said Michael CooperWhite, Seminary President.
Scholarship offers will
similarly cover the last
12 and 15 credits for the
Master of Arts in Religion
(M.A.R.) and Master
of Arts in Ministerial
Studies (M.A.M.S.)
degrees, respectively.
The Seminary’s Enrollment Services and Student
Life team has researched
the impact of a new approach to scholarship assistance that will achieve
the goals of increasing
the number of leaders for
the church, mitigating the
increase in student debt,
and contributing to an
improved financial “bottom
line.” The new scholarship distribution will cover
approximately 10% more
of total tuition costs. The
Rev. Virginia “Ginny” Price
leads the Admissions staff,
and will guide
the scholarship committee to enact
this approach,
informally
titled “Scholars of Abundance: Pray,
Trust, Share!”
The increase in
scholarship
aid is also
intended to
offset higher
borrowing costs
to students who obtain
federal student loans,
beginning July 1, 2012.
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Hummel Awarded Project Grant for
Researchers from The Louisville Institute to
Develop a “Pastoral Theology of Cancer”
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The Rev. Dr. Leonard Hummel, Professor of Pastoral
Theology and Care and
Director of Clinical Pastoral Education at Gettysburg
Seminary was awarded a
$25,000 Project Grant for
Researchers from The Louisville Institute for “‘The
Very Fiber of Our Being:’
A Pastoral Theology of
Cancer and Evolution.” The
project will run from June
1, 2012-August 31, 2013.
A Lilly Endowmentfunded program based at
Louisville Seminary in Louisville, KY, the Louisville
Institute supports those
who lead and study American religious institutions
Hummel is investigating
a pastoral theology of cancer as a disease of evolution with the cooperation
of a group of five other pastors functioning as project
co-directors. Two of the
participating research pastors are Gettysburg Seminary alums, the Rev. David
Albertson in Frederick, Md.
and the Rev. Jean Kuebler
in Newville, Pa. “This project will make a deep and
large impact on the church
by bringing religious leaders into conversation on
evolutionary theory as it
bears on life and death issues like cancer” Hummel
explains in his proposal.
“Given the prevalence of
cancers—and the pervasively empathic concern of
the church for those who
suffer with this disease—
this project will demonstrate that evolutionary
theory need not be too hot
or too cold for a suffering
world and a church that
cares about that suffering.
In other words, ‘The Very
Fiber of Our Being’ will not
generate yet another conversation or debate in the
church about evolution,
but show its significance
for its pastoral practice.”
Together, this peer
group of pastors “will
constitute a ‘community
of inquiry’” emphasizes
Hummel. The term derives
from the philosopher
Charles Sanders Peirce.
Another outcome of this
project will be a chapter,
also bearing the project
title and acknowledging
participating pastors, in
Hummel’s forthcoming
book which he is coauthoring with Gettysburg
College molecular biologist Steve James, Chance,
Necessity, Love: An Evolutionary Theology of Cancer.
A.R. Wentz Library Receives Large
Collection of Medieval Works
The seminary has received
an unusually large donation of works from the
library of the late Professor
H. Lawrence Bond, emeritus professor of history at
Appalachian State University. Bond, who died in
2009, was a founder of the
American Cusanus Society
and a frequent visitor to
the seminary both for the
biennial conferences of the
International Seminar on
Pre-Reformation Theology
and for personal retreats.
To continue these connections Bond’s family chose
Gettysburg as the home
for his library, estimated at
over 5,000 volumes. Most
are in the field of medieval
history, but many also represent his interest in spirituality, biblical interpretation and pastoral ministry
(in addition to his teaching
Bond shepherded a small
community church). The
seminary library will now
have comprehensive holdings in Thomas Merton and
C.S. Lewis, as well as medieval theologians such as
Meister Eckhart, Bonaventure and Abelard. The
crown of the collection,
however, is its outstanding
collection highlighting the
life and work of Nicholas of
Cusa (1401-1464), reformer,
conciliarist, theologian,
writer on mysticism, and
cardinal. These volumes
will add to the seminary’s
already substantial holdings and help make it one
of the outstanding centers
for Cusanus studies in
North America. The Bond
collection was dedicated
during the biennial Cusanus Conference held at
Gettysburg on October 13.
Pathway Taking Shape in Time for Summer Opening
By late spring, the west
side of Seminary Ridge in
Gettysburg will highlight
important historic features,
reconfigured parking, and
a completion of a one mile
multiple use historic pathway. The project began in
mid-February and a ground
breaking rite took place
March 13th with local officials and press present.
The project, supported by
the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National
Scenic Byway program, will
redesign traffic flow and redistribute automobile parking to lessen the effect of
paved surfaces in critical
historic areas and begin to
restore the Seminary grove
of trees west of the Seminary Ridge roadway. Gettysburg is the northernmost
point in the 180 mile historic corridor that runs along
Route 15 to Monticello in
Virginia.
The project will also
complete the one mile multiple use historic pathway
that currently loops only
through the campus on the
eastern slopes of Seminary Ridge. The project removes two tennis courts
close to the last line of defense of Seminary Ridge on
July 1, 1863, and limits the
amount of paved surface to
a minimum.
A careful redesign of
campus parking relocates
high density parking to a
place behind the Lutheran Theological Seminary’s
A.R. Wentz library. This
move cuts in half (34 spaces) the parking spaces in
the immediate area of the
grove where on July 1, 1863,
Union forces made their
heroic last stand. Safer pedestrian walkways, ADA
parking spaces, and drop
off and pick up areas for
bus and transit included in
the design will support the
increased visitation to the
new Gettysburg Seminary
Ridge Museum.
The plan, created by the
Seminary and the Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation (SRHPF),
replants two trees for each
one of the trees removed
from the grove. Plans for
replanting appropriate oak
trees in the Seminary grove
were aided by the National Park Service’s Olmstead
Center for Landscape Preservation. They have recommended native oak species
that will not block the view
of the historic seminary
building cupola once they
mature. Seminary Ridge
Historic Preservation Foundation leaders consulted
with Gettysburg National
Military Park staff in the final planning for the project. A team of historians
collaborated on the texts
and photos planned for the
18 waysides scattered along the one
mile path. Design
consultants include
MM Architects of
Lancaster, and ELA
Group of Lititz, PA.,
with Delta Development, Harrisburg,
PA assisting with
public funding.
Seminary staff
noted that the few
remaining oak and
ash trees near the
top of the Ridge
obscure the building and the cupola, which was much
more prominent on
the horizon in 1863.
Photos from the 1860’s and
1880’s document the tree
height and position and
density. During the construction of the first part of
the pathway on the Eastern half of the campus,
Seminary officials heard
from concerned citizens
when the earth was carved
up to install depressed areas to collect storm water
runoff and recharge the
ground water. They also
noted that completion of
the pathway elicited many
more comments of gratitude and appreciation.
“We are losing the grove
of trees to age and ash boring insects and the current
view is interrupted by concentrated parking of 68 ve-
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hicles,” said John Spangler,
president of the Seminary
Ridge Historic Preservation
Foundation, a subsidiary
of the Lutheran Theological Seminary. “This project will preserve the view
shed of Schmucker Hall
from the west and restore
a grove-like appearance
to the area that had only
about 20 trees left, none of
which were historic ‘witness trees’,” he added. Design consultants include
MM Architects of Lancaster, and ELA Group of Lititz,
PA., with Delta Development, Harrisburg, PA assisting with public funding.
Valley Quarries, Inc. based
in Chambersburg is serving
as general contractor.
Seminary Working With Eco-Theology Organizations
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Planning for geothermal
installations and starting
up a Green Task Force
and a community garden
was soon followed by
widening circles of curricular and organizational interests. In the most
focused of those interests
ing the surprising statistic
that one year of mowing
the seminary grass was
equivalent to driving from
Gettysburg to Los Angeles
and back—17 times.
In 2012, Gettysburg
Seminary was named by
Blessed Earth as one of the
The Rev. Fletcher Harper, chief executive of GreenFaith, spoke at Spring
Convocation and Summer Institutes last year.
Blessed Earth’s founder, Matthew Sleeth, M.D., watches as President
Cooper-White signs the charter of Seminary Stewardship Alliance at
the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., featuring presentations by
Wendell Berry and a sermon by Sleeth.
in the ecological movement
in a theological context, Dr.
Gilson Waldkoenig initiated courses (“Ecology and
Stewardship”) on eco theology. Dr. Waldkoenig was
named a GreenFaith Fellow
(www.greenfaith.org)
which supported his interest in developing courses
and other institutional
activities related to eco
theology. A related student
project in a fall 2011 course
led to the calculation of the
campus carbon footprint as
a base line for the seminary in the last year before
geothermal installations
began. The students identified key contributors to the
carbon footprint, includ-
inaugural 12 seminaries to
the Seminary Stewardship
Alliance (SSA). The Blessed
Earth organization is an
emerging coalition dedicated to environmental stewardship grounded in the
Christian faith. SSA is their
national project to help
seminaries and seminarians begin to think, teach,
and act in ecologically
responsible ways. President
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500,000
Number of trees
to be planted in
commemoration
of those who died
in the seminary
field hospital in
1863 (Part of the
Journey Through
Hallowed Ground
project to memorialize all 620,000
soldiers who died
in the Civil War)
Number of gallons
of water saved by
water saving measures
Cooper-White signed the
charter of this group at the
Washington national cathedral on earth day in 2012.
Later in the year, seminary
representatives attended
the initial conference of the
twelve schools of the Seminary Stewardship Alliance
(Luther Seminary being
the other Lutheran school
among the twelve).
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The number of
geothermal wells
on the seminary
campus
Gettysburg Seminary Leads in
Getting Greener
In the new equation of
energy use on the Lutheran Theological Seminary campus, the electric
meter is spinning faster
to light, heat and cool its
campus. But the use of oil
and natural gas for heating
is dropping dramatically,
and its carbon footprint is
shrinking.
Since 2007, Gettysburg
Seminary has been getting greener across its 52
acre campus. Staff studied
the feasibility of geothermal technology, which
was found to be a good fit
for the rock of Seminary
Ridge. Geothermal heating and cooling utilizes the
relatively constant temperature of the earth to cool
water in the summer and
heat it in the winter, eliminating the need for steam
boilers and cooling towers.
As of this fall, steam boilers serve only the Wentz
library.
With help from the Green
Task Force the Seminary
roughly doubled its recycling on campus in 2009
and began to bring greener
thinking to all levels of
community life. In the
fall of 2011, the Rev. Dr.
Gil Waldkoenig became a
GreenFaith Fellow, developing coursework that
eventually prompted a
student group to calculate
the seminary’s carbon
footprint baseline.
The 2012 Spring Convo
offered GreenFaith’s (
www.greenfaith.org )
Fletcher Harper and
distinguished alumnus
David Rhoads (Gettysburg
alumnus and founder of
Lutherans Restoring
Creation) and theologian
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda to
campus. Most of the papers
were published in the fall
2012 Seminary Ridge
Review, with some posted
www.Ltsg.
online (see
edu/resources for audio
online recordings.)
Recognized as a leader
among seminaries, Gettysburg was invited to be
among the dozen leading
institutions signing on with
Blessed Earth’s Seminary
Stewardship
Alliance which
took place at
the National
Cathedral Earth
Day 2012.
Gettysburg
Seminary is
already seen as a
leader among seminaries
in environmental awareness and active creation
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care. See more at
Lutheransrestoringcre-
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ation.org or
www.
www.
greenfaith.org or
blessedearth.org.
David Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of New Testament of LSTC and
graduate of Gettysburg Seminary, leads a workshop in the Getting Green
Faithfully Spring Convocation in 2012.
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1036
1.04
17
Acres under the
stewardship of the
Seminary
The number of metric tons of CO2 the
seminary produced
in 2010
Length of the new
pathway in miles
Mowing the campus for one season is equivalent
to driving between
Gettysburg and LA
17 times
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Graduating Class 2012
Graduates by degree in alphabetical order: David Bowman, Traci Bowman, Jean Caudill, William Chamberlin, Jennifer Chrien, Brandon Cian, Ryan
Cosgrove, Matthew Day, Tonya Eza, Jason Felici, Jessica Felici, Nicolé Ferry, Ivy Gauvin, Caitlin Glass, Trevor Hahn, Denise Keltz, Robbie Ketcham,
Cassandra Lamb, Karen Larson, Kenneth Melber Jr., Joseph Murdy, Amy Northridge, Bruce Points Sr., Haley Vay Poynter, Peter Roy, Julie Scheibel, Gary
Shumway, Steven Simpson, Diane Smeck, Tormod Svensson, Sarah Timian, Tina Toburen, Nicole Wachter, Jacob Werkheiser; “Micki” Kautz, Susan
Marcoz; Daniel Rudisill, Robin Taylor, Joshua Warfield; Mary Anne Kingsborough, William Miller. Photo: Donnie Thompson.
2012 Alumni/ae Awards
Gettysburg Seminary has
many outstanding daughters and sons who serve
the Church in significant
ways. The Alumni Asso-
ciation is pleased to honor
some among the many truly distinguished graduates
for their ministry. On April
17, 2012 the Alumni Asso-
Two Rabbis and a Pastor Walked into the Chapel one day: Blessings by
Rabbi Ben Morrow, Emeritus of Temple Beth Shalom, Rev. Benjamin
Larzelere III, class of 1972, and Rabbi Marvin Schwab of Temple Beth
Shalom, New Mexico at the April 2012 awards program in the Chapel of
the Abiding Presence.
ciation bestowed
the 2012 Distinguished Alumni/
ae Awards to The
Rev. Dr. William O. Avery
for Service in
Specialized
Ministry and Rev.
John L . Str ube,
Jr. received the
award for Celebrated Lifetime
Ministries. The
Rev. Benjamin
Larzelere, III
was honored for
Service in Parish
Ministry, and was
accompanied
William Avery, left, and John Strube
on the occasion
www.Ltsg.edu/alumni
by his Rabbinical friends.
or contact Nina Garretson:
To make nominations
1-800-MLUTHER ext. 3011
for the 2014 Distinguished
or [email protected].
Alumni Awards, please find
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Student Initiative and New Course Leads To Benchmark
Calculation Of Gettysburg Seminary’s Carbon Footprint
Thanks to a new course
and student initiative,
Gettysburg Seminary
received the first-ever
calculation of its carbon
footprint. The Seminary’s score was 1036
metric tons of CO2 per
year, measured before
it began to take steps
to reduce the size of
the carbon output.
In a fall 2011 semester class called “Ecology and Stewardship”
and taught by Professor
Gil Waldkoenig, students
collected data to generate the carbon footprint
score. Patient and goodnatured seminary staff
members made a huge
contribution by answering questions and providing information, data, billing history and more.
With the seminary’s 2011
and 2012 installations of
geothermal HVAC in its
chapel and Old Dorm,
students expect the carbon footprint has already
decreased dramatically.
The student researchers
identified other ways that
the seminary can readily
save energy—and therefore save money. Better
energy stewardship will
translate into concentrated resources for education of leaders and the
mission of the church.
For years the seminary
has recycled paper, bottles and cans, and encouraged students, faculty and staff to minimize
waste. Assessing the carbon output of the entire institution, however,
provides criteria to plan
for systematic improvement in energy efficiency.
The students used the
same assessment as many
other colleges and universities across the country,
the “campus carbon
calculator” provided by
www.cleanair—coolplanet.org. Schools have
used this tool to achieve
measurable savings for
their budgets.
In the world of higher
education, seminaries are
small institutions compared to most universities
and colleges. At present Gettysburg Seminary
does not have appropriate comparative readings
from other institutions,
but the score calculated
in the fall of 2011 will be
a baseline for comparison in subsequent years.
The students identified
key contributors to the
carbon footprint. They
discovered that one year
of mowing the seminary grass was equivalent to driving from
Gettysburg to Los Angeles and back—17 times!
Analysis of water usage
showed that the seminary will begin to save
thousands of dollars by
even a small investment
for low-flow faucets and
toilets. The students discovered a potential of
75% reduction in electricity for lighting by using
and appropriately recycling CFL bulbs. Clothes
dryers and washers in
the dorms, seminary vehicles, staff commuting and faculty business
travel all came under
examination as well.
In future years the
seminary may add data
about student commuting and other factors to
enrich its understanding of how it uses energy and emits carbon.
The Seminary may even
deserve offset credit for
the many trees and green
spaces it tends on its 52-
acre campus. Calculation
of carbon footprints will
become more precise for
businesses, municipalities, homes and churches
in the years ahead. Thanks
to some energetic and visionary students, Gettysburg at least has an initial
report and a real sense of
direction for improvement.
“The wonderful news
is that Christ unites us
to God’s sustaining creativity,” said Professor
Waldkoenig. “To cherish and steward God’s
creation at our doorsteps is to affirm that
Christ never stops loving all he came to save.”
Photograph of Tormod Svensson (MDiv ’12), volunteering his time and
tools to convert faucets all over campus to low water flow hardware.
As a sign of the response
among students and the
community as a whole, a
second career seminarian Tormod Svensson
utilized his plumbing skills
and knowledge to lead
a project to reduce the
water consumption of the
campus facilities, installing roughly 200 pieces of
hardware to reduce the
flow of water in faucets
and showers and in one
year, an estimated half
million gallons of water.
Svensson owns a plumbing service, his first career
and is a deeply committed
environmentally conscious
leader. The payback on this
project, given the volunteer
labor given by the now Pastor Svensson, was between
one and two months.
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Began with $10M goal
Crossroads Campaign Tops $23M
The impact of the $23
million raised during the
comprehensive Crossroads
Campaign has been immediate and life-changing.
Scholarships, faculty, and
facilities have all been
strengthened in ways
that will have lasting
effects on students, the
congregations they serve
and the environment.
Funding for student
scholarships grew by $1.8
M making a new program called Scholars of
Abundance possible. The
upshot is simple. Candidates for the Master of
Divinity degree required
for ordination, following
successful completion of
an internship in their third
year, will have tuition for
their final academic year
fully funded. Students in
two-year Master degree
programs will get their
final semester, likewise,
tuition-free. This “final
furlong free” comes on top
of scholarships granted
for earlier semesters.
Over the course of the
six year campaign in addition to raising funding for scholarships, the
Seminary instituted a program of financial coaching to assist students in
prudent personal financial
planning. This coaching
coupled with the increase
in scholarship aid has resulted in a lowering of the
average educational debt
per Gettysburg Seminary
student from $41,800 in
2009 to $ 35,500 in 2011.
Alumni giving to the
Crossroads Campaign was
very strong with a majority of alumni participating. Many chose to honor specific professors who
taught preaching with passion, and the importance
of keeping context, compassion and social justice all in view. The Herman G. Stuempfle Art of
Proclamation Chair and
the Bertha Paulssen - Russell Hale Chair in Church
and Society were both
completed. A third project, The Folkemer Fund
was also put in motion.
Some of the most powerful alumni witness “at
the crossroads” was giv-
en by graduating classes from 2006-2012, totaling $257,000 not including
the pledges of 2010 classmates to give 1% of their
income to the Seminary
in perpetuity. Of the total,
$182,000 goes for scholarships, $25,000 for chapel
geothermal, and $50,000
for housing improvements.
Finally, the greening of
the campus HVAC system
began with the installation of twenty-five geothermal wells to power
a state of the art heating
and cooling system making the chapel much more
environmentally efficient
and sustainable for all stu-
dents and visitors who
worship there. Gifts for further chapel renovations to
make the entire building
ADA compliant provide a
foundation for that second phase project in 2014.
The six year comprehensive campaign which ran
from 2006-2012 owes its
success to the strong commitment of bishops, synod
leadership, congregational leaders, and countless
volunteers beginning with
the honorary chair people
who carry the Gettysburg
legacy forward: Ms. Leslie
Hobbs, Ms. Kay McDowall, The Rev. Kenneth Senft,
and Dr. Edward Sites.
Crossroads Campaign Legacy Gift
Estate Gift Given By Ruth Shaw
Seeds Multiple Projects
Ruth Shaw, who died at the
age of ninety on September
30, 2010, shared Gettysburg
Seminary’s vision of “bearing witness at the crossroads of history and hope”
through her estate plan.
The retired secretary and
lifelong member of St. Paul
in Frostburg, MD, used her
will as a means to give gifts
to ministries and charities
she valued during her lifetime, including her congregation and several community organizations. After
specific distributions were
made, she had directed the
balance of her assets to go
to the Seminary. The size of
that balance, $1.5 million,
took everyone by surprise,
especially the seminary
which had not previously
heard from Ms. Shaw.
Speaking with profound
gratitude for this extraordinary gift, Seminary President Michael Cooper-White
said, “Our only regret is not
having the opportunity to
thank Ms. Shaw in her lifetime for such lavish generosity. She was obviously
one of those humble Christian stewards who wanted no recognition, who
cheered us on silently from
behind the scenes, and
whose example can inspire
us all to respond in whatever measure is possible.
Thanks be to God for Ruth
Shaw and her witness!”
Since no restrictions for
the use of the gift had been
indicated in the will, the
seminary’s Board of Directors decided to put Ms.
Shaw’s generosity to lasting use in three ways. The
first $600,000 was used to
undergird teaching by completing the funding of the
Bertha Paulssen-Russell
Hale Chair in Church and
Society (a $1.5 million project). Another $400,000 has
been offered as a dollarfor-dollar match for gifts for
the geothermal conversion
and accessibility renovation
of the Seminary’s chapel,
the Church of the Abiding
Presence (a phased project
totaling $1.8 million). Hav-
ing thus invested in teaching that engages the world
and the centrality of worship, the Seminary’s board
placed the remainder of the
Shaw estate in the Seminary’s general endowment
fund in order to hold the
line on tuition increases for
seminarians.
To learn more about the
roots of Ruth Shaw’s faith,
the Seminary’s Chief Advancement Officer, Rev.
Kathleen Reed, made a
Sunday visit to her home
congregation. From St. Paul
members, Reed heard that
Ruth Shaw was a reserved,
hardworking church member who worshiped regularly, attended Bible studies and served on council
and committees whenever asked. “Only one thing
jumped out and it wasn’t
unique to Ruth,” Reed reported. “Everyone I spoke
to at St. Paul recalled with
glowing pride that a son
of the congregation had
become a pastor—Darrell Layman, a Gettysburg
Seminary graduate, class of
1978. My guess is that Ruth
Shaw, who was savvy in
the stock market, decided
ultimately to invest in the
development of future leaders for the church.”
Planned Gifts
Can Go Farther
Planned giving through
wills, insurance policies,
retirement plans, charitable gift annuities and
trusts contributed to the
success of the Seminary’s
Crossroads Campaign.
These legacy gifts, like
the estate gift from Ruth
Shaw, make a difference
to Gettysburg Seminary
now and in the future.
They also give the donor
the opportunity to leave
a meaningful legacy gift
and the satisfaction of
knowing that, through
charitable giving, the
donor is advancing the
Seminary’s mission of
preparing highly qualified
Church leaders. Donors
who make planned gifts
are also members of the
Seminary’s Samuel Simon
Schmucker Society.
To make a gift or get
more information: 717338-3011 or Email: [email protected].
www.Ltsg.edu/giving.
Below, left to right: Brooks
Schramm, Dean Robin Steinke,
Herman Stuempfle, Vic Myers
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FACULTY NEWS BRIEFS
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Gilson A.C. Waldkoenig, Professor of Church in
Society, launched EcoTheology in Northern Appalachia, an immersion course
based at Camp Lutherlyn
in Prospect, PA, that the
Appalachian Ministries
Educational Resource
Center awarded a $6,000
grant. His article “From
Commodity to Community:
Churches and the Land
They Own” delivered at
Spring Convocation 2012
appeared in Cross Currents.
His sermon “Margins &
Hope” published at http://
tinyurl.com/6ln6xty and
in Seminary Ridge Review Spring 2011 won the
People’s Choice Award at
Earth Ministry in Seattle,
WA. Waldkoenig wrote
“Scenes and Means of
Grace” in Dialog Winter
2011, and published “Rethinking Environmentalism” in Dialog Spring 2012.
Leonard Hummel, Professor of Pastoral Theology
and Care and Director of
Clinical Pastoral Education preached at the 30th
anniversary of the ordination of Gettysburg Seminary alumna Martha Jacobi
at Saint Mark’s Church,
New York City in June. He
participated in Two AAAS
(American Association for
the Advancement of Science) events focused on the
issue of the role of science
in theological education.
He made numerous presentations on cancer, religion
and evolution at venues including a college, a Presbyterian seminary, a hospital
and congregations. Hummel received a grant for
“Integrating Theology and
Disability Studies into the
Theological Curriculum”
by The Faith Community
Leadership Project of the
Pennsylvania Disabilities
Council. Michelle Carlson,
Gettysburg Seminary Director of Life-Long Learning
was co-Director of the project. With Professor Steve
James, Associate Professor
of Biology at Gettysburg
College he received an ATS
Lilly Collaborative Research Grant. He was also
awarded a Project Grant for
Researchers by the Louisville Institute for 2012-2013.
Robin Steinke, Dean, attended the ATS Biennial
meeting in Minneapolis,
MN in June 2012. While at
the LWF Council meeting
in Bogota, Columbia, June
11-21 she preached at San
Pablo Lutheran church. She
attended a Wabash Center
for Teaching and learning
consultation in Puerto Rico
in January, 2012. Steinke
convened the ELCA/ELCIC
Deans Colloquy in Tampa,
Florida, January 22-25. She
traveled with Marty Stevens and her 2013 January
term class to Israel and the
West Bank and led a workshop for nurses on medical
ethics at Calvary Lutheran
church in Baltimore, May,
2012. Steinke published a
chapter in C(H)AOS Theory:
Reflections of Chief Aca-
demic Officers in Theological Education. Her article
in The Lutheran, December 2011, co-authored with
Gary Simpson, “Deeper Understandings: The Creeds”
received honorable mention from the Associated Church Press “Best of
Christian Press” Awards.
She represented the ELCA
at a World Council of
Churches consultation in
Hamburg, Germany, April,
2012 about better supporting international students
from the global South and
in June she attended the
ATS Commission on Accreditation meeting in
Pittsburgh, PA. Steinke is
pictured receiving the Distinguished Alumna Award
from Trinity Lutheran Sem-
inary on September 27,
2012. The award was presented by Trinity Seminary
President Mark Ramseth.
Kirsi Stjerna, Professor of
Reformation Church History
and Director of the Institute
for Luther Studies, attended and made presentations
at conferences including
the American Academy of
Religion in San Francisco,
CA. She was a respondent
with Brooks Schramm in a
session on Luther and the
Jews in November 2011 at
the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in San
Antonio, TX. She organized
“Christian Life in Light of
Scripture: Luther and Lutheran Perspectives” and
presented the paper “Martin Luther on the Baptism
of a Jewish Girl” in October
2011 at the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL. Stjerna was on the
panel “Divergent Reformation Interpretations” in
January 2012, and at a Reformation Summit at Duke
University in April, 2012.
She was a consultant on
Teaching Confessions at
Luther Seminary in October
2011 and was interviewed
for a Select Video in Chicago on Medieval and Reformation Women. She spent
six weeks in Erfurt in summer 2011, finishing Martin
Luther, the Bible, and the
Jewish People with Brooks
Schramm. Articles by Stjerna appeared in Handbook
of Women Biblical Interpreters and in Lutherans
for Unité des Chrétiens.
The Rev. Dr. Kristin
Johnston Largen, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, published
Baby Krishna, Infant Christ:
A Comparitive Theology
of Salvation with Orbis
Books’ section on comparative theology and soteriology. Largen’s alma mater,
the Graduate Theological
Union (Ph.D. 2002) chose
her as the GTU’s Alumna of
the Year for 2012 and honored her during the Alumni Reception at AAR/SBL
in November. Largen was
selected in recognition of
her pioneering work in interreligious dialogue and
comparative theology. In
announcing the selection,
Dean Arthur Holder said,
“As we celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the GTU, it
is appropriate to honor a
graduate whose scholarship is firmly rooted in her
own Lutheran tradition
while reaching out to make
connections with people of
other faiths, especially Buddhists and Hindus.” She received a Lilly Theological
Research Grant for a project “Seeking God among
Our Neighbors: Toward an
Interfaith Systematic Theology.” As part of her research, Largen traveled to
Israel, Turkey, India, and
Japan, which she chronicled on her blog: happylutheran.blogspot.com.
Maria Erling, Professor of
Modern Church History and
Global Mission, produced
an essay in the Spring 2013
issue of Lutheran Form entitled “Scandinavian Theology, the Two Kingdoms,
and Karl Barth’s First Ecumenical Meeting” that
searched out the ways in
which Scandinavian theology helped 20th Century
Americans mediate Luther to American Lutherans in the aftermath of the
world wars. She also presented several weeks of
the Sojourner’s, a group
of clergy and lay persons
from the Metro D.C. and
Delaware Maryland Synod
area interested in theological discussion. Erling
contributed “What America Wanted and Swedish Lutheran Youth” to the
June issue of Currents in
Theology and Mission.
Gerald Christianson,
Emeritus Professor of
Church History co-edited Nicholas of Cusa: A
Companion to His Life
and His Times with Morimichi Watanabe. Christianson also co-authored
with Bradley Hoch, “The
Last Full Measure of Devotion: The Battle of Gettysburg and the New Museum in Schmucker Hall,” in
Adams County History. He
contributed “From Conciliar
to Curial Reform in the Late
Middle Ages” to the festschrift The Reformation as
Christianization: Essays on
Scott Hendrix’s Christianization Thesis. Along with
Maria Erling he has essays
in the June issue of Currents in Theology and Mission which features articles
on “Augustana: A Lively
Tradition” in commemoration of the 50th anniversary
of the Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago. Christianson contributed “The
Making of a Modern Seminary: Augustana Seminary
in the 1930’s.” He organized
the Christian-Muslim dialogue event at the Seminary in October, 2012.
Marty Stevens, Associate Professor in The Arthur
L. Larson position of Stewardship and Parish Ministry, Chief Financial Officer and Registrar’s newest
book is Leadership Roles
in the Old Testament: King,
Prophet, Priest, and Sage
(Cascade Books, 2012).
“Stewardship Competency #6: Embraces Financial
Health as an Expression
of Faith” appeared in How
Much is Enough? A Deeper Look at Stewardship in
an Age of Abundance edited by Catherine Malotky.
Book reviews for “Jesus the
Temple,” by Nicholas Perris, “A Brief Introduction to
the Hebrew Bible,” by Hans
Barstad and “Israel’s Tab-
ernacle as Social Space,” by
Mark K. George appeared
in recent issues of the journal Interpretation. Stevens
was chosen by the graduating class to preach at the
2012 Graduation Eucharist.
She was keynote speaker for Southwest PA Synod
Stewardship event, Pittsburgh, PA, in April, 2012.
She completed the audit for
Gettysburg Seminary and
Eastern Cluster and was involved in the financing arrangements, bank accounts
and letters of credit for the
Seminary Ridge Museum.
The Rev. Dr. Richard
Carlson, Glatfelter Professor of Biblical Studies,
now in addition to regular teaching duties, directs the internship program for both Gettysburg
and Philadelphia seminaries. Nevertheless, Carlson still managed to serve
as a faculty member for
the 22nd annual Hartwick
Seminary Summer Institute of Theology, Oneonta, NY, an adult Christian
education experience for
clergy and lay persons.
Mark Vitalis Hoffman,
Professor of Biblical Studies, began his recent sabbatical with a month in
Israel (summer 2012).
The first two weeks were
spent at an archaeological dig in Bethsaida. Hoff-
man is pictured with one
of his finds. Part of his time
was also spent working on
a photo project that will
be available in the BibleWorks software program.
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The Rev. Dr. Brooks
Schramm, Professor of
Biblical Studies collaborated
in the editing of Martin
Luther, the Bible and the
Jewish People, published by
Fortress Press, to promote
a better understanding of
Luther’s role in the difficulty
history of Christian and
Jewish polemics. The
book assists the reading
in understanding the
contextual influences of
Medieval ideas and social
norms. This study also
pursues the idea that
biblical hermeneutics might
also have had a role to
play in the development
of Luther’s theological
thinking about the Jewish
People.
IN MEMORIAM
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Eric W. Gritsch,
Professor of Church
History, Emeritus,
Dies
The Rev. Dr. Eric W. Gritsch,
who taught Reformation
and Church History at
the Seminary from 1961
to 1994, died December
29th in Baltimore following a brief illness. He
was 81 years of age.
A prolific author of historical and theological books
and textbooks, Gritsch
was born in 1931 in Neuhaus, Austria, later becoming a citizen of the United
States in 1961. He studied at the Universities of
Vienna, Zurich and Basel
and completed both masters and doctoral degrees
in theology at Yale University. His dissertation on
the major reformers of the
16th century was directed by Luther biographer
and church historian Roland Bainton. Gritsch was
ordained in 1962 by the
United Lutheran Church in
America, a predecessor Lutheran body of the ELCA.
Before his arrival in Gettysburg, he taught at Wellesley College (1959-1961).
President Michael Cooper-White conveyed the
Seminary’s admiration of
“one of the giants in 20th
century Lutheranism. I am
among the hundreds of
women and men privileged
to have sat at his feet during his third of a century
as a professor here at Gettysburg Seminary. Beyond
the classroom and campus,
during times of crisis over
civil rights and the Vietnam
war, his prophetic voice
taught us what it means to
be a ‘public theologian’.”
Following retirement
from Seminary teaching,
Gritsch lived in Baltimore,
MD, remained active in
writing and teaching projects. He is survived by his
wife of 17 years, Ms. Bonnie Brobst, and three adult
foster children: Debby
Cole, Valerie and Erika.
Among his many contributions in print, Lutheranism: The Theological Movement and Its Confessional
Writings, which he co-authored with Robert W. Jenson, was likely the most influential for a generation of
Lutheran seminarians and
clergy, both at Gettysburg
Seminary and across the
continent. The team taught
course in Lutheran confessions that undergirded the
book offered the creative
approach of linking a theologian and a historian to
press the interpretation of
the Lutheran constitutive
documents in interdisciplinary context. He was among
those who initiated the Institute for Luther Studies at
Gettysburg Seminary and
its accompanying successful annual Luther Colloquy.
Born in Austria, Gritsch
experienced first-hand the
The Rev. Robert W.
Koons, 95, a 1946
graduate, distinguished
alumnus (1994), and
former chaplain of the
Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg
died on All Saints’
Day, Nov. 1, 2012.
Born in Altoona, he
lived his early years in
Harrisburg. In 1949 he
married Grace Bowman
reign of Adolf Hitler and
Russian army occupation
and wrote about those experiences in a memoir, The
Boy from the Burgenland.
The 50th anniversary of
his ordination, celebrated last fall, was the occasion for the publication of
a festschrift in his honor,
Lutheranism, Legacy and
Future: Essays in Honor of
Eric W. Gritsch, which included essays by current
Gettysburg Seminary faculty members KirsiStjerna
and Maria Erling. Gettysburg’s Distinguished professor Günther Gassmann
and retired colleague Dr.
Robert Jenson also wrote
for the publication.
In putting Gritsch’s teaching into perspective Cooper-White summarized
the teacher, “above all,
Dr. Gritsch was a pastor whose heart and home
were opened to foster children, countless students,
and fellow citizens. Especially those like himself who gazed into the
depths of darkness found
hope and courage as Eric
pointed to Jesus Christ,
the Light of the World.”
of Timberville, Va. who
preceded him in death
in 2006. The Rev. Koons
served as assistant pastor
of St. John’s Lutheran
Church in Hagerstown, Md.
(1946-50) and later served
congregations in Sunbury
(1950-1960), Gettysburg
(1960-1967), Lynchburg,
Va. (1967-1974) and
Winchester, Va. (1974-1982).
Upon retirement from
active ministry in 1982,
he and Grace made their
home in Gettysburg where,
until 1986, Rev. Koons
served the Gettysburg
Lutheran Theological
Seminary as Associate
Director of Field Education
and later as Chaplain of
the Seminary’s Church of
the Abiding Presence.
Richard L. Thulin,
1929-2011:
Homiletician, Dean
of the Seminary
The Rev. Dr. Richard L.
Thulin of Gettysburg, Lutheran pastor and theologian, died Saturday, November 19, 2011 following
an extended illness.
A memorial service for
Thulin was held in December 2011 in the Seminary chapel where he spent
more than 20 years teaching and shaping the faculty.
Seminary President Michael
Cooper-White reflected on
the Seminary’s deep appreciation for his extraordinary
teaching ministry: “For colleagues and generations
of students, times spent in
Richard’s presence were
special occasions indeed.
He will be missed, and his
rich legacy of scholarship,
mentoring and humbly
serving so many lives on.”
The Rev. Dr. Thulin received his higher education
from the University of California at Berkeley (B.A. in
1951), and Augustana Theological Seminary (M.Div.
summa cum laude, 1955).
He pursued graduate studies in religion and the arts
at the University of Chicago Divinity School, later at
Boston University School of
Theology (Th.D., 1972).
Ordained in 1957, Thulin
served as parish pastor to
Trinity Lutheran Church in
Lowell, MA and Bethesda
Lutheran Church, New Haven, CT. During his parish
ministries, he was active in
religious broadcasting and
a leader in the development
of ecumenical relationships
among Christian traditions.
During the New Haven
years, he was active in the
civil rights struggles of that
period. He also served as
Lecturer in Pastoral Theol-
ogy and in Lutheran History and Polity at Yale Divinity School. From 1968 to
1977, he served as Professor of Pastoral Theology in
Communication at Hamma School of Theology,
Springfield, Ohio, where
he also served as Dean
of Students. The Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Gettysburg called him
as professor of preaching in 1977 and elected
him in 1981 to serve as the
John and Susannah Ulrich Professor of the Art of
Preaching. Recognized for
his academic leadership,
he was elected to serve as
Dean of Gettysburg Seminary in 1992 and served in
that capacity until his retirement in 1999.
Widely respected for his
preaching and teaching,
he was the author of numerous articles and published sermons, and for
15 years served as general editor of the journal
Homiletic and president of
the Academy of Homiletics. Among several books
under his authorship are
two published by Fortress
Press: The ‘I’ of the Sermon: Autobiography in the
Pulpit (1989) and an earlier
study Resurrection (1975).
Born in 1929 in San
Francisco, California, he
is survived by his wife, the
former Elizabeth Anne
Bergendoff, three children
and their families. His son
Geoffrey, of Cashtown, PA,
remains connected to the
Seminary’s life through his
painting and photographic art. He was an active
scuba diver and scuba instructor and had a love for
long-distance swimming.
He continued to practice these aquatic sports
throughout his life, especially while a seasonal
resident of Martha’s Vineyard. He also developed
an avocation in underwater photography there and
in the island waters of the
Caribbean.
Hedahl Retires
continued from p. 3
Seminary Ridge Review.
She has been appreciated
for her strong leadership in
women’s issues, helping the
Church become more inclusive, and heeding the call
to social justice. A prolific
author, Hedahl published
eight books and many articles on the art and craft
of preaching. She shared
her wide-ranging voracious reading habits with
a broad internet community through a voluminous
collection of book reviews
published on the Seminary
website and elsewhere.
In response to her announcement, Seminary
President Michael CooperWhite stated: “This news is
a huge loss to the Gettysburg Seminary where
Susan Hedahl has been a
powerful presence in our
school’s mission for the
past twenty years. She was
one of the authors of our
current vision statement,
which locates us as ‘Bearing Witness at the Crossroads of History and Hope,
Proclaiming Jesus Christ
to a restless world . . .’ The
way she is facing this sudden invasion of cancer with
enormous courage and
grace is a profound witness
to us all. Truly, she ‘practices what she preaches’ and
the Church’s proclamation
of the Word of God is stronger and bolder as a result of
her influence.”
The Seminary Board of
Directors confered the status of Professor Emeritus
to Dr. Hedahl,, and honered
her at a festive banquet
during the October 2012
board meeting.
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Museum
Continued from p. 18
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public trust,” the museum
will open to the public July
1 on the day of its grand
opening ceremony at 10am,
an important highlight of
the 150th anniversary to
be commemorated in and
around Gettysburg.
The Gettysburg Seminary
Ridge Museum is a joint
venture of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg, the Adams
County Historical Society and the Seminary
Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation. Located
on the Seminary campus
and part of the Gettysburg Battlefield’s hallowed
ground, the new museum
offers an unprecedented
opportunity to interpret the
first day of the battle, the
care of the wounded and
human suffering that took
place within Schmucker
Hall during its use as a field
hospital; and the moral,
civic and religious debates
about slavery before the
Civil War began. The museum will include Samuel
Simon Schmucker’s role
in the conflict over slavery
in the American religious
landscape, African-American history in the border
territory, and Underground
Railroad activity.
Within the walls of
Schmucker Hall, the
historic Seminary building where pivotal events
transpired, voices of history
will come to life to educate
generations and to stimulate awareness of human
character, causes and consequences of war and the
enduring American spirit.
Just as the “Peace Light”
was added to the Battlefield
at the 75th anniversary of
the Battle, the Gettysburg
Seminary Ridge Museum
will be, in 2013, one of the
lasting legacies of the 150th
anniversary of the Battle of
Gettysburg and the American Civil War.
Rehabilitation of the
building was complete in
November of 2012, giving
way to the installation of
the exhibit contents, artifacts, video and sound features and graphics expected to be complete in April.
Only special preview tours
will be available as scheduled for donors and special
groups between April and
opening day July 1st.
Seminary Ridge Museum officials introduced
the graphic branding and
name for the new museum
earlier this year. In January,
Ms. Barbara Franco was
named to be the founding
executive Director of the
museum. In April, partners
and friends placed shovels
into the ground to mark
the first phase of a one mile
historic walking pathway
to be created on the 52 acre
campus. This multi-use
pathway will loop through
the Ridge featuring waysides that tell the religious
and historical legacies of
the Seminary Ridge, as well
as the events connected to
the Battle of Gettysburg as
it unfolded on the grounds.
Archeological finds generated extensive interest in
the early phases of the project. Workers have found
letters to wounded soldiers,
medicinal containers, 19th
century seminary artifacts,
and even shoes connected
to the construction of the
building. Other discoveries on the campus ground
have included bullets, buttons and buckles from the
intense fighting that took
place just west of the iconic
structure.
Major support for the
project has been received
from the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, the Federal
Highway Administration,
Commonwealth Cornerstone Group, and PNC
Bank as well as generous
individuals, and fundraising continues to close in
on the final $3.3 million of
the total funding goal of the
$13 million project.
Seminary Religion and Media Focus Launched
the latest technologies in
traditional presentations
and settings. But this new
concentration in Religion
and Media at Gettysburg
Seminary does bring
contemporary theological
scholarship to issues such
as:
Mary Hess shares teaching duties
with Kristin Largen for the Keystone Course in Religion & Media
Gettysburg Seminary’s
newest course of study
got off to a good start in
2012 with its first offerings
in the Religion and Media
concentration in its Master of Arts program. The
program offers the only
Master’s level concentration in Religion and Media
from a mainline Protestant
seminary in the U.S.
This new concentration
is not a “how-to” for using
* the role of media in
raising, prioritizing and
interpreting theological
questions;
* the power of media versus
the power of the individual in public discourse;
* how media affects the
interactions of Christian
churches and other communities of faith;
* how God may be working
in the world in the twentyfirst century.
Flexibility characterizes
the concentration which
will be offered as a traditional two-year program or
accommodate those who
must pursue the degree
on a part-time basis. The
concentration includes resources from two additional partners in theological
education, Luther Seminary
in St. Paul, Minn. and Odyssey Networks, the interfaith
media organization based
in New York City.
Launched last year, a
Religion & Media Keynote
course, taught by Kristin
Largen and Mary Hess will
be offered annually during the last two weeks
of August. The Keynote
serves as an entrance to
this concentration and an
opportunity to form the
relationships important to
collegial learning. A second
course was taught in the
January term by Eric Shafer
and Matt Tombers, leading voices in new media by
Odyssey Networks in an intensive format. The J-term
Eric Shafer, center, and Mat Tombers (upper left) of Odyssey Networks, teach an intensive J-term course “When
21st Century Media Meets Religion” – to be repeated in 2013 and 2014.
course “When 21st Century
Media Meets Religion” will
run again in January 2014.
Application materials can
be found at
www.Ltsg.
edu/religionandmedia or
call 1-800MLUTHER ext
2232 today.
www.ltsg.
edu/religionandmedia
“The Seminary
Explores” Ends
Its Long Run
After more than forty-two
years of weekly broadcasts
heard every Sunday over
WGET and
WGTY “The
Seminary
Explores”
will say its
last “have
a good
day” on Sunday, April 14.
After this date the stations
will be changing to a new
national format.
“It’s an explore program,
not an answer program.”
That was the description
Roger Gobbel gave when
he founded the public
affairs program in 1970.
“What I was interested in,”
he said “was a forum to
deal with issues important
to the community.” Over
the past four decades “The
Seminary Explores” has
explored a wide variety of
issues ranging from casinos to war, and battlefield
towers to spirituality. In recent years co-hosts Gerald
Christianson and Nelson
Strobert, now emeritus
professors at Gettysburg
Lutheran Seminary have
frequently recorded at various locations in the community and over a wide
territory in order to meet
the interviewees where
they live and work.
During these years the
program has become a
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ALUMAI/AE NEWS
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Hartwick Seminary
Summer Institute of
Theology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY was
presented by the Foothills Conference of the
Upstate New York Synod
of the ELCA. Alumnae/i,
student and faculty participants from Gettysburg
Seminary included Richard Carlson, Daniel Hoffman, Mark Honstein, Diana
Luscombe, Paul Messner and Allison Michael.
Landis Coffman (MDiv
’67) authored The Price of
Being Alive: A fresh way
of understanding suffering (Huff Publishing, ISBN
9780615587066) which is
available in soft cover and
e-book platforms. Coffman is retired and currently lives in Akron, OH.
Zachariah “Zach” Harris
III (MDiv ’91, STM ’97) is a
Mission Developer of a new
congregation, Rock of Ages
Lutheran Church in Wildwood, FL. Rock of Ages is
one of the newest mission
congregations in Florida
and will celebrate its organization on April 7, 2013.
He will move to SC for retirement where I will fully develop his Life Coach
practice. His focus is on resolving painful memories
from traumatic events in
people’s lives that they may
have hope restored (www.
wonderingwithyou.com)
John Knarvik (MDiv ’76)
Pastor of Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church in Loudonville, NY, received the
Rev. Joyce Steinkraus Giles
Pastoral Services Award,
given in memory of the first
female executive director
of the Capital Area Council
of Churches from 1977-86.
The award is given to those
who exemplify the ideals
for racial, gender and interdenominational inclusiveness that marked her life.
Donald Wilcox, (MDiv ’76)
was honored with the creation of the Wilcox Fund
by the Cortland County
(NY) Council of Churches to continue the distinguished legacy of his ministry at SUNY and with the
Council. More information about this fund may
be found through contact
with the Rev. Vicki Johnson
SUNY Cortland Campus
Ministries (607) 753-1002
or email: [email protected].
The new edition reflects
the latest archaeological
findings, adds new material
on the religiously diverse
environment of ancient
Israel, and incorporates
new maps, photographs,
and translations of
ancient inscriptions.
Bonnie Weaver (MDiv ’07)
is president of the board
of the Great Plains Food
Bank which was selected
as the Agency of the Year
for North Dakota and western Minnesota. The program of Lutheran Social
Services of ND located one
of the food bank outlets in
her congregation, “a great
place to serve” she said.
The Rev. Karen DeWerth-Wamester (MDiv
’91) and her husband, the
Rev. Blake Wamester both
retired and have recently
moved from New England
to the shores of Delaware.
Wendi Gordon (MDiv
’96) who has lived in
Hawaii since 2002,
published a book of
Christian meditations
entitled Timeless Truths for
Troubled Times. Interested
readers can learn more
by visiting https://www.
createspace.com/3704296.
William Boldin (MDiv ’87)
earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA. His final project
was “Theologia Crucis:
Luther’s Theology of the
Cross as a Tool for Coping with Traumatic Stress.”
Kurt L. Noll (MAR ’91)
is the author of Canaan
and Israel in Antiquity: A
Textbook on History and
Religion, published by
T&T Clark Bloomsbury,
London and New York.
This is a second, revised
edition of the book. The
first edition was published
in 2001 and has been
assigned for university
courses in the United
States, Canada, England,
and the Netherlands.
Colonel in the Air Force,
has moved to Tinker
Air Force Base, Tinker
AFB, Oklahoma.
Ray Branstiter (MDiv
’00) accepted a position as
Spiritual Director at Hazelden treatment center
in Naples, Florida, beginning in April ’13. He is leaving Recovery Worship,
Fargo, North Dakota having served since 2007.
The Rev. Karl Runzer
III, (MDiv ’03) has accepted a new call to the Southern Clinton County Parish near Lockhaven, PA.
The Rev. Charlene E.
Barnes (MDiv ’07) was
called as Pastor/Mission Re-developer for the
newly established Emmanuel Trinity Lutheran
Church, Adamstown, MD.
Emmanuel Trinity was
created from the congregations of the Manor Lutheran Parish ... St. Mark
(Doubs), St. Matthew (Ballenger Creek Pike), and St.
Luke (Point of Rocks).
Dennis Roser (MDiv
‘02) Accepted a new
call to Calvary Lutheran
Church, Brookfield, WI and
transferred to the North
American Lutheran Church.
Paul Sutter (MDiv ’91)
serving as Lieutenant
Alison Fisher (MDiv ’02)
began serving the Bruin UMC Charge in Butler
County, PA in July 2012.
Anjel Scarborough
(MDiv ’07) has been serving as Priest-in-Charge at
Grace Episcopal Church
in Brunswick, Maryland
since December 2011.
Carolyn Hetrick (MDiv
’11) participated, along with
the choir from her congregation, Holy Spirit, Reading, PA, in the Odyssey Network’s produced Christmas
Eve documentary featuring three Reading, parish-
for King of Glory Lutheran
Church in Newbury Park,
CA and Chrien, the new
pastor at Our Saviour’s
Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Oxnard, CA.
Elizabeth Arter (MDiv
’11) was called as pastor
of Ebenezer Presbyterian
Church in Lewisville, PA.
Seth and Chelsea with parents Angela and Martin Zimmann overlooking
East Jerusalem.
es. “One Christmas Story:
People Rich in Spirit,” a national CBS television special, aired Christmas Eve
was filmed at Hope Lutheran Church. The special
feature program included
combined choirs that included Holy Spirit Lutheran Church and touched off
a new level of cooperative ministry in Reading.
The Rev. Sara J.
(Wilson) Anderson
(MDiv ’06) will serve half
time, as of August 1st, as
Associate to the Bishop in
the New England Synod.
She will have geographic
responsibilities for
Rhode Island, Southeast
Massachusetts, and the
Boston Metro area.
Jason Northridge
(MDiv ’11) was called to
serve St. John Lutheran
Church, Mount Wolf, PA.
Steve Simpson and
Jennifer Chrien (both
MDiv ‘12) were called and
ordained this last year:
Simpson as the new pastor
Angela Zimmann (MDiv
’98) ran a dynamic but
ultimately unsuccessful
campaign for U.S. Representative to Congress
in Ohio’s Fifth District
against multi-term incumbent Bob Latta. She
did so while serving as
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Riga MI. As
of February, Pastor Zimmann and her husband,
the Rev. Martin Zimmann (MDiv ’98) are serving as co-pastors at the
Church of the Redeemer
in the Old City of Jerusalem. The couple will also
be special assistants to
Bishop Munib A. Younan,
the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in Jordan and the Holy
Land. Martin most recently served as Assistant
Pastor St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1690 Sterns
Rd., Temperance, MI.
New Call
for Kathleen
O’Keefe Reed
The Rev. Kathleen
O’Keefe Reed (MDiv
‘80, Gettysburg Seminary’s Chief Advancement Officer, has accepted a call to serve
as pastor of University
Lutheran Church (UniLu), Cambridge, Mass.
Reed has served on the
Seminary’s advancement
staff since 2007, seeing
through the completion
of the Seminary’s largest and most successful
capital campaign known
as “The Crossroads Campaign,” which exceeded
$23 million in gifts, pledges, and planned gifts.
“At the time I accepted
the call to serve Gettysburg
Seminary in the development field,” said Reed, “the
prompting of the Spirit took
the form of deep gratitude
for all the ways Gettysburg
Seminary had contributed
to the shaping of my identity as a child of God and a
servant of the Word. That
gratitude has only intensified over six amazing
years of service. The chief
discovery of my recent Gettysburg time has been that
most people in our congregations care a great deal
about the training of church
leaders. It’s a fire ready to
be kindled as long as the
story gets an opportunity
to be told. I leave with a
commitment to do my
part as a pastor to spread
the word about theological education in general
and the unique gifts that
Gettysburg Seminary
brings to pastoral formation and lifelong learning.”
Reed concluded her
service on the seminary
staff Feburary 28th, beginning her new call at
UniLu March 1, 2013.
Advancement work will
progress at the Seminary
amidst the transition. Productive planning was begun several months ago to
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strengthen the infrastructure for advancement and
alumni relations. Alongside
of those efforts, there is
stepped-up leadership by
directors, trustees, and
alumni, so that in the future Gettysburg Seminary’s
friends and supporters
can count on collaborative
expansion of opportunities to support theological
education at Gettysburg.
“In her work first as a
gift officer and then leading our stewardship efforts,
Pastor Reed has espoused
a ‘theology of abundance’
and confidently pointed
to promises that God will
provide for our needs,”
commented President
Michael Cooper-White. He
continued, “To her work of
fund and friend raising for
the Seminary, Kathleen has
always brought her pastoral presence. Pastor Reed
has helped position us for
the next phase of work in
which an ever-growing
portion of the Seminary’s
income will need to come
from generous individuals. In addition to her work
in development, she has
been appreciated for her
contributions in our lifelong
learning efforts, and as
she brought her winsome
creativity to bear in preaching both in congregations
and the Seminary chapel.
Now another community
of God’s faithful people
has called her to be their
pastor, and the Seminary
honors the wisdom of University Lutheran Church, a
historic congregation in the
neighborhood of a worldrenowned university.”
Seminary Still Actively Fund Raising for Overall Costs of $1 Million
Music, Gettysburg! Meets $100,000
Goal for Phase 1 of Chapel Renovations
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Late 2011, “when the
Music, Gettysburg! steering committee set a goal
of contributing $100,000
to Phase I of Gettysburg
Seminary’s $1.8 million
Chapel Renewal Project,
we knew it was a stretch,”
said Steering Committe
member Jean LeGros. “Yet
we also were confident that
members of the community
and beyond would step
up to help meet the goal.
And they did!,” she added.
Music, Gettysburg! and
the Seminary as its host,
are delighted to announce
that more than $100,000
in gifts and pledges have
been contributed by Music, Gettysburg! patrons
toward the important first
phase of major renovations to its 70 year old chapel, the host home of the
15-20 annual performances of the concert series.
Music, Gettysburg! is,
has been, and will continue to be a primary patron of the chapel’s performance space. The gifts for
chapel renewal have been
an expression of appreciation to the Seminary for inviting the concert series to
use the chapel for the past
thirty-two years. Phase I of
the chapel renewal project ($1 million), now complete, supports sustainability and comfort: refurbished
pews, a new hardwood
floor, and twenty-five geothermal wells for constant
heating and cooling. Phase
II ($800,000), to begin in
the next few years, will
support accessibility: ADA
(Americans with Disability
Act) compliant restrooms,
doors, staircases and elevator. Other initiatives
planned for the future include a new common area
in the undercroft level, a
rehearsal room, and an en-
hanced narthex/lobby area.
The patrons and friends
of Music, Gettysburg! who
have given and pledged
generously toward these
projects have in a major
way improved the quality and comfort for performance and expanded the
capability to welcome music lovers for years to come.
Music, Gettyburg! is a
premier quality, free concert series featuring the
finest regional, national
and international musicians hosted by the Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Gettysburg. The Seminary chapel is located at
147 Seminary Ridge on the
west edge of the Borough
of Gettysburg. For more
information about concerts in the Music, Gettysburg! schedule visit
www.musicgettysburg.
org.
The first phase of major Seminary chapel refurbishing was completed in
the fall of 2011.
Schola Cantorum Chorus and Orchestra.
Explores
Opening July 1, 2013
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The ELCA’s oldest,
Gettysburg Seminary,
bearing witness at the
crossroads of history and
hope, offers its students,
church leaders and the
nation the lessons, causes
and consequences of
war in the place that saw
it all 150 years ago.
Robust degree, certificate
and lifelong learning
programs in theology,
leadership and more,
through resident, intensive
and online formats:
www.Ltsg.edu
1-800 -MLUTHER
[email protected]
Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg
The Seminary Invites
the Nation to
Hallowed Ground
Experience the iconic 1832 seminary building
as a rehabilitated, state-of-the-art interactive
museum where you can see the drama of the
of the battle, the care of the wounded, and the
issues of faith, freedom and reconciliation in a
nation fighting about slavery and abolition.
111 Seminary Ridge | Gettysburg, PA 17325
For reservations and information call: (717) 339 -1300
info@seminaryridge .org
www.seminaryridgemuseum.org
More on the Web:
Presentations (audio) from Getting Green Faithfully, the 2012 Spring Convocation
featuring GreenFaith, Lutherans Restoring Creation, presentations by David Rhoads,
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Fletcher Harper and more: www.ltsg.edu/Resources
The new Seminary Ridge Museum website: www.seminaryridgemuseum.org
Send us news, address updates, email and more: www.ltsg.edu/Alumni/Alumni-Information-Form
Music, Gettysburg! concert schedule: www.musicgettysburg.org
recognized part of the
community. Christianson succeeded Gobbel in
1976. While interviewing
a new president of Mount
St. Mary’s University he
was surprised to find that
the president was not yet
inaugurated. The president
replied, “I’ve heard that it is
a requirement that presidents-elect first appear on
the Seminary Explores!”
Asked about his favorite
shows Christianson says
that he enjoyed talking
to students as much as
the bigger stars, as long
as they had established
expertise in some area of
community life. He singles
out Millard Fuller, the late
founder and president of
Habitat for Humanity; Ed
Rendell long before he was
governor of Pennsylvania;
Lt. Governor Mark Single
in his office at the state
capitol; and Father Kevin
Rhodes before becoming
bishop of Fort Wayne.
Strobert was a guest
himself on “The Seminary
Explores” as a student and
later succeeded Gobbel as
Professor of Christian Education. He joined Christianson over two decades ago
and cites as his major contribution international and
multicultural connections.
“There are many people of
color who contribute to the
life of this community or
the wider world,” he says.
Highlights for Strobert were interviews with
Katherine Koob, one of the
American hostages in Iran
and Martin Peterhaensel
who discovered a pile of
bodies in his church during
the civil war in Liberia.
The end of one era also
marks the start of another.
The “Seminary Explores”
will begin reaching a
national audience with
digital delivery – watch the
Seminary’s website
www.LTSG.edu for
details.
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ISSN 0098-3101
Looking Ahead in the Calendar:
Preaching Perspectives — May 23, 2013
Grand Opening: Seminary Ridge Museum — July 1, 2013
Certificate of Theological Studies — July 7 – 13, 2013
Seminary Views is a publication of
the Lutheran Theological Seminary
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this newsletter may be sent to the
Editor, The Rev. John R. Spangler at
the Lutheran Theological Seminary
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e-mail: [email protected].
Send news items to Katy Giebenhain,
e-mail: [email protected].
Seminary website:
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Telephone: 1-800-MLUTHER
Summer Institute for Ministry — July 8 – 12, 2013
Lay School of Theology — July 28 – Aug 3, 2013
Preaching Perspectives — September 12, 2013
Fall Academy Week — October 28 – Nov 2, 2013. Includes Luther Colloquy,
Preaching Perspectives, Seminary on Saturdays, and certificate courses.
Music, Gettysburg! concert schedule:
www.musicgettysburg.org