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the hands and feet of the disciples are no longer sturdy enough to go out into the world? What does it mean when some disciples struggle with dementia? Wartburg Seminary’s 14-year-old Tri-State Forum offered an Oct. 17 presentation by Audrey West on “Storied Lives: Friend- ship, Ethics and Care at the End of Life,” focusing on the importance of story for engaging in God’s mis- sion. The forum’s series of five lec- tures throughout the year is attended by students from the Dubuque, Iowa, seminary; pastors; ministry profes- sionals; and interested laity.
Through its Haller Enterprise Insti-
tute, Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., encourages highly motivated stu- dents from any major to begin their own business while continuing their education. Named for college bene- factors Henry E. and Grace Mary Haller, the institute offers an Intro- duction to Entrepreneurship course, an advisory board of local business owners, and up to 20 $2,000 aca- demic scholarships a year to student- entrepreneurs. David M. Miller, a Thiel economics and business administration professor, directs the institute.
From Oct. 28-Nov. 2, the A.R. Wentz Library at the Lutheran Theologi- cal Seminary at Gettysburg (Pa.) is exhibiting selected works from its extensive collection of rare and important theological books, includ- ing many Martin Luther imprints and those from other Reformers and even anti-Reformers. In many instances the works to be exhibited represent the only North American copy of a particular work; in some cases the works are the only surviving copies known at this time.
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., held its 2013 Andrew S. Burgess Lecture in Global Mission. Philip Jenkins, professor at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and religious historian, spoke Oct. 14 on “Four Horsemen: The Catastrophic Four Years That
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Remade The World’s Religions.” Jenkins said that only “100 years ago Europeans and Americans were deeply involved in [World War I], what both sides understood as a Holy War, and religious and mystical imagery dominated the war’s rhetoric and propaganda.” He argues that the war’s effects reshaped religious life worldwide, creating a massive crisis of confidence for Western Christian- ity, while modern global Christianity was born.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, the Columbia, S.C.-based school of theology at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, N.C., prepared for a Reformation week celebration, Oct. 25-31, with a symposium on “Toward the 500th Anniversary [of the Reformation in 2017],” a concert by recording artist Bob Bennett, and a Reformation hymn festival. Plan- ners intended the hymn festival to explore the idea of Reformation for the church today, including “the min- istry needs of those in our commu- nity who suffer or are marginalized members of society.”
Students receiving $10,000 Rossing Physics Scholarships for the 2013-14 school year are seniors Kevin Dalla Santa, Rebecca Gobel and Leah Roth, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.; senior James Trevathan, Gus- tavus Adolphus College, St. Peter,
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