updates to its Paavo Nurmi Athletic Center,
including a 5,000-square-
foot strength and fitness center, an aerobic studio, student lab and more. About $350,000 in new equipment will be available for use by students, faculty, staff and the Copper Coun- try community. It’s “an investment in community wellness as well as cam- pus wellness,” said Philip R. Johnson, an ELCA pastor and president of Finlandia.
For more than 20 years, Roanoke College, Salem, Va., has hosted the Virginia Synod’s annual “Power in the Spirit” event for anyone wishing to explore God’s mission and minis- try. Tis year’s event, held July 10-12, brought ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton to campus to speak to more than 300 participants
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about how “we are church together” and to respond together to today’s challenges. Rolf Jacobson, a profes- sor of New Testament at Luther Sem- inary, St. Paul, Minn., also spoke.
Novelist and screenwriter Dennis Lehane (Te Drop, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island) headlined Capital University’s Gerhold Lecture in the Humanities Oct. 9. Lehane’s evening lecture, which was free and open to the public, was preceded by an aſternoon of conversation spent with students and faculty on the Columbus, Ohio, campus.
Vance Blackfox, a 2012 graduate of the Lutheran School of Teology at Chicago, is the new executive direc- tor of Oaks [Okla.] Indian Mission. At LSTC he redesigned the Youth in
Mission program to provide three distinct immersion experiences for high-schoolers. He also established the seminary’s Vine Deloria Jr. sym- posium held each November. Earlier this year members of LSTC’s Class of 2014 established the Vance Blackfox American Indian & Alaska Native Scholarship for a seminarian who is an enrolled tribal member or citizen of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native tribe.
Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, is one of the sponsors of “Come to the Castle,” a new continuing edu- cation program for clergy and con- gregational members. Te program includes adult Bible study for parish- ioners on topics such as biblical chal- lenges to creationism and living the Sermon on the Mount, led by final-
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