Alumni & Friends: News, Features & Publications
Keeping in touch with alumni, friends and prospective students is important to us. With publications like The Epistle and our online newsletter, The E.pistle, we look to highlight events, opportunities and accomplishments within the LSTC community.
Here you will find our latest news releases.
From our October 2011 E.pistle Alumni & Friends newsletter:
Free Library resources for LSTC Alumni
When you were in seminary, you had access to one of the best theological libraries in North America – the JKM Library. One of the things that made JKM so good was its extensive periodical collection. In the last few years many of the journals became available online, so you could find, obtain and print out full-text article from your home or office.
The premier database for full-text online articles in religion is called ATLASerials or ATLAS. This database contains full articles from 140 major religion and theological journals, including Christianity Today, Christian Century, Interpretation, Worship, Lutheran Quarterly, Currents in Theology and Mission, and Zygon. JKM subscribes to ATLAS and so you have access to them all if you are a currently enrolled student.
JKM (and LSTC/McCormick), through the auspices of The American Theological Library Association and Lilly Endowment, Inc., offer the alumni of LSTC, free access to ATLAS and all of its wonderful full-text articles for this academic year! It’s one of the benefits of being our alum! How can you participate? It’s simple: phone or email Barry Hopkins, acting director of the JKM Library, at 773-256-0738 or, bhopkins@jkmlibrary.org for the username and password of ATLAS. Then, log on . . .and read.
From our September 2011 E.pistle Alumni & Friends newsletter:
SYS – support your students
Congregations across the ELCA provide crucial direct financial assistance for students from their parish who are attending LSTC.
“It is immensely affirming to know that the people who know me well, believe in me and God's work in me as an ordained pastor. That affirmation has been both financial and emotional and through it God has been generously and graciously revealed,” said Jeanine Reardon, a Lutheran Year student and a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Evanston.
Last year, a dozen congregations in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod with students attending LSTC provided them with direct financial assistance. Five congregations went a step further and affirmed their commitment to those students by signing a Covenant of Support. The Covenant of Support with LSTC invites congregations to choose ways to support their seminarian: “pray regularly for our student,” “encourage our student with regular communication from the congregation,” “hold an annual ‘seminarian Sunday’ and take a special offering to benefit our student,” and “budget annual support” in a specific amount.
Dorothy Dominiak, director of financial aid and admissions, says, “Every dollar of financial support students receive reduces the need for students to take out loans to get through seminary.”
While the Covenant of Support has typically been for congregations that have a member attending seminary, any congregation may choose to support students in this way.
To learn more about the Covenant of Support and how your congregation can assist an LSTC student, call the LSTC Office for Advancement at 773-256-0712.
Wear your LSTC pride!
There's now a way to stock your wardrobe with LSTC logo apparel and other accessories like duffel bags, backpacks, headgear and more. LSTC has partnered with an "eStore" to enable us to offer high-quality items, including sweatshirts, t-shirts, hoodies, fleece items, and more.
The items featured will be available with embroidered logos at any time, but there will also be occasional sales that offer items printed with a silk-screened logo for an even lower price.
Follow this link to the "LSTC E-apparel Store."