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| Wartburg posted this pose as her thrilled and excited photo when they gave Louise Johnson an honorary D.D. |
Wartburg Theological Seminary has received a $497,115 grant from The Kern Family Foundation to streamline preparation for pastoral ministry for first career ministerial students in partnership with Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. The grant allows for implementation of a fully integrated Bachelor of Arts/Master of Divinity degree program to provide leadership, theological education and spiritual formation embedded in congregational contexts.
This new program will include 3 years of BA education at Wartburg College with at least one semester interfacing with Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, IA. The final 3 years (which includes a year to complete an internship required by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) will be located in a collaborative congregational context.
Louise N. Johnson, Wartburg Seminary President, explains, “The generosity of the Kern Foundation and the partnership of Wartburg College offer us an extraordinary opportunity to press into our calling to form young faith leaders, who can proclaim words of hope, healing, forgiveness, mercy, grace to a world desperately longing to hear and to know the living God.”
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GJ - Without foundation grants, Mrs. Ichabod and I finished Augustana in three years and a quarter. I finished seminary, so that both degrees took six years, including a vicarage. Mrs. Ichabod earned a master's degree in German literature, where most of the classes were in German. So she also earned two degrees in six years, plus working at the UniWat library.
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| Reu has been forgotten. Where did he teach? Wartburg? Really! |
Louise Johnson, DD - “Vocation was a huge piece of what Martin Luther gave the church. His reframing of a sense of vocation was radical at the time, and in its own way, is still radical now,” she said. “It pushes us to think differently about how we spend our time and what God calls us to do and how we understand that. Those basic Reformation principles still sing in our culture today.”
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| ELCA Bishop Liz Eaton has a lot more damage planned. Most of her higher education appointments have been single women, so put a ring on it. |
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| ELCiC Bishop Susan Johnson |
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| Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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| Encore. |
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| Bishop April Larson |
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| Pastor Anita Hill paved the way for Mark Hanson's career. |
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| Pastor Megan Rohrer is ELCA's first openly transgender pastor. |
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| Dr. Robin Steinke is thrilled and excited to sell off Luther Seminary property. |
