Schooled in Ministry
by Sarah Maney When first-year Deaconess Studies student Rachel McCloskey moved to Concordia Seminary’s campus in the fall of 2021, she felt like she was coming home. Indeed she was. […]
Continue reading.by Sarah Maney When first-year Deaconess Studies student Rachel McCloskey moved to Concordia Seminary’s campus in the fall of 2021, she felt like she was coming home. Indeed she was. […]
Continue reading.by Rebekah Lucas Director of Christian Education Mark “Marcos” Kempff grew up the son of pioneer Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) missionaries to Latin America. He was called to Concordia Seminary, […]
Continue reading.View larger image by Rebekah Lukas Lutheran and Christian summer camps rise from the country’s landscape, stretching from Washington to Florida, from North Dakota to Texas. These camps are the […]
Continue reading.by Dr. Charles Arand and Dr. Erik Herrmann Each week people in the pew hear portions of a story that focuses on God’s work of rescuing His creation — beginning […]
Continue reading.by Rebekah Lucas Dr. Brian Friedrich looks at the wall above his office desk to a portrait of his grandfather, Rev. Walter Friedrich. The oldest son of William and Christine […]
Continue reading.by Tim Barker Rev. Travis Ferguson remembers well the morning his ministry radically changed direction. It was Aug. 16, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and the U.S. […]
Continue reading.by Sarah Maney Idonis King’s path to Concordia Seminary, St. Louis began with a wrong turn. It was 2014. It was a typical day for King, who had been out […]
Continue reading.by Sarah Maney Dr. Joel Elowsky, professor of Historical Theology, began his education in a two-room grade school in the rural town of Lowden, Iowa. “Kindergarten through fourth grade were […]
Continue reading.by Rebekah LukasDr. Rance Settle had always aspired to be a priest. Since he was little, he was involved in his Roman Catholic parish, and participated in Catholic youth and […]
Continue reading.by Philip Werth Penhallegon As God worked away at me, nudging me ever closer to pastoral ministry, He put a verse in my mind that I knew in part but […]
Continue reading.by Kim Plummer Krull Thomas J. Egger arrived at Concordia Seminary in 1993 as a new Master of Divinity student from Muscatine, Iowa. His primary aspiration was to become a […]
Continue reading.by Sarah Maney In the middle of a chaotic childhood, Marcus Gray found comfort in the care of his grandmother. Gray, known as the Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist FLAME, remembers her […]
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