Events

The Fall LSTC Seminary Sampler will take place October 25-27, 2021. During this event, prospective students are offered the opportunity to meet faculty and fellow students, engage in discussions about discernment, explore LSTC housing and opportunities in Chicago (for those interested in living on or near campus), and learn about the LSTC admissions process, including information about student services and financial aid.

For further details, please continue to monitor this webpage and the Seminary Sampler Facebook event discussion. Interested individauls should also register below!

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A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9-10, 1938, has come to be known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. It starkly signaled a movement towards the Final Solution, a systematic program of genocide designed to annihilate every Jew and others in Europe.

In addition to remembering, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago annually commits to the denunciation of anti-Semitism now and in the history of our tradition, and seeks to join together people of all faiths in the work of the world’s mending, the healing of the nations.

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LSTC will partner with Other+Wise for the 13th Annual Vine Deloria Jr. Theological Symposium on November 16 and 17, 2021. The event will be offered virtually. The theme for this year's symposium is "On Our Way to Truth and Healing." The symposium educates seminarians, church leaders, and allies about the work of Vine Deloria Jr. and about Indigenous culture, movements, and activism. This year, symposium content will focus on the intersection between Indian boarding schools and Christian and theological education.

More information about the schedule of events and presenters is available here.

The event registration is now open!

The Spring LSTC Seminary Sampler will take place October 25-27, 2021. During this event, prospective students are offered the opportunity to meet faculty and fellow students, engage with LSTC alumni, explore LSTC housing and opportunities in Chicago (for those interested in living on or near campus), and learn about the LSTC admissions process, including information about student services and financial aid.

For further details, please continue to monitor our Visit page. Interested individauls should also register below!

In partnership with the Chicago Committee for Global Mission, LSTC will convene the 2022 World Mission Institute with a keynote offered by Dr.George Sabra, President of the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon.

More information coming soon!

Annually, LSTC participates in a two-day fundraising event, hosted by the LSTC community with events offered virtually and in-person (as possible) that showcase LSTC's commitment to the development of leaders for the church and world. We appreciate your donation consideration during this event.

More information coming soon!

Alumni enjoyed opportunities to participate in classes taught by LSTC faculty plus presentations centering on equity, eco-healing, decolonizing Latinequis semantics, and more. Guest preachers led worship services each day. Special recognition was given to classes marking 10-, 25-, 40- and 50-year reunions with distinct gatherings for each, and celebrating our 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awardees was a final event of Homecoming.

Visit the 2021 Homecoming and Alumni Awards webpages for further details and follow-up links to recordings (coming soon!)

The Center for Advanced Studies in Religion and Science (CASIRAS) hosts quarterly lectures grounded in how science informs our religious understanding of the cosmos which God has created.

Guy Consolmagno, SJ of the Vatican Observatory, presented "Your God is too Small" on Friday, October 1.

Review the recorded livestream of the lecture on Facebook.

In partnership with McCormick Theological Seminary and Catholic Theological Union, LSTC offered the 2021 Scherer Lecture virtually on September 28, 2021 at 4 p.m. The lecture featured Dr. George Hunsberger, one of the founders of the Gospel and Culture movement. The Scherer Lecture, titled “Three innovators in mission: Lamin Sanneh, Lesslie Newbigin, and Dorothy Day,” focused on three Christians in our own day who brought creative innovation to the practice of mission. Watch the livestream of the 2021 lecture on the LSTC Facebook page.