PLTS Founder's Day keynote lecture
PLTS Founder's Day keynote lecture

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary celebrates Founder’s Day with a keynote lecture "The Planet You Inherit: A Re-Founding Catalyst?", from Larry L. Rasmussen. Online lecture begins 6pm, Thursday, 11/3/2022.
Register here.

Voltaire (1694-1778) said the "three things exercise a constant influence over the minds of [humankind]: climate, governance, and religion...That is the only way of explaining the enigma of this world." This Founder's Day Lecture looks at each of these three - climate, governance, and religion - to ask whether today's planetary emergency requires re-founding our way of life.

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We are the Lord’s: A Conversation on Grief, Death, and Life
We are the Lord’s: A Conversation on Grief, Death, and Life

The Southwest California Synod presents We are the Lord’s: A Conversation on Grief, Death, and Life, Saturday, 10/29,2022, 10am-1pm MST/PDT, 11am-2pm MDT, via Zoom. This Zoom event featuring Rev. Francisco Javier Goitía Padilla is for rostered leaders, seminarians, interns, and congregational leadership in general.

To register, please contact Pastor Abel Arroyo Traverso, Southwest California Synod’s Assistant to the Bishop for Faith Formation and In House Theologian at abel.at@socalsynod.org or call 626-665-9133.

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Prompts for Prayers of Intercession: October 30, 2022
Prompts for Prayers of Intercession: October 30, 2022

  • For those grieving in the aftermath of the shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri…

  • For all affected by school shootings and acts of violence…

  • For the leaders of nations and all diplomats and peacemakers…

  • For our upcoming national and local elections and election judges who will serve at the polls…

  • For the victims of human trafficking…

  • For relief and peaceful resolution to the ongoing violence in Haiti…

  • For an end to the continued war in Ukraine and all places of war and conflict…

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Thank you from the ELCA Fund for Leaders Class of 2022
Thank you from the ELCA Fund for Leaders Class of 2022

The ELCA Fund for Leaders supports students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries to become pastors and deacons in our church. This year, 375 students are receiving over $3.5 million in scholarship support. In this video, a few of them would like to express their thanks to you for making their scholarships possible. Learn more at ELCA.org/FundForLeaders.

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Faith Lens: Resilient Women
Faith Lens: Resilient Women

I am in awe of the Muslim women involved in protests surrounding the wearing of the hijab. They are heroes who are showing strength and resilience in the midst of persistent pushback.

One of the things that has struck me is that there is no one, universal stance. Women are asking for the power to choose how to live out their faith. There are women in Iran who refuse to be forced to wear a hijab. And at the same time there are women in India who wear their hijabs despite being banned from doing so.

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Author Rev. Ron Rude presentation: Amending the Christian Story
Author Rev. Ron Rude presentation: Amending the Christian Story

Rev. Ron Rude and the Office of the Bishop presents a free Zoom presentation based on his book, Amending the Christian Story: The Natural Sciences as a Window into Grounded Faith and Sustainable Living." Click here to register for this event on Tuesday, 11/8/2022 8, 2022 at 6pm MST, 5pm PST.

After several years of research and writing and teaching, with worldview-altering insights into Nature's natural sciences and life's experience, "Amending the Christian Story" reframes and recasts God's story of life and God's story of Jesus.

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Pastor David Lose: Why don't my children and grandchildren go to church? (And what can I do about it)
Pastor David Lose: Why don't my children and grandchildren go to church? (And what can I do about it)

Pastor David Lose presents “Why don't my children and grandchildren go to church? (And what can I do about it),” a free event at All Saints Lutheran Church (15649 North 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85022), on Wednesday, 11/2/2022, at 10am MST/PDT, 11am MDT. This event will also be live-streamed on the All Saints Facebook page. Coffee and treats available prior to the event.

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LAMA Summit 2022 features Rev. Eugene Cho, Bread for the World
LAMA Summit 2022 features Rev. Eugene Cho, Bread for the World

Join Bread for the World’s Rev. Eugene Cho, Lutheran advocates and friends at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (739 W. Erie St., Chandler, AZ 85225) for the third annual Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona (LAMA) Summit on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm to learn and to share, as we voice our common needs in the public square, activating our faith in love. Click here to register.

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