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FACULTY NOTESAn up-to-date and fuller list of recent facultypublications may be found at www.lstc.edu/Mark Bangert, John H.Tietjen Professor Emeritusof Pastoral Ministry:Worship and Church Music,in October, participated inthe Manz Tage at MountOlive Lutheran Church,Minneapolis, Minn., celebratingthe life and ministryof Paul Manz. Thatmonth he also was a presenterat the Luther Hostelin Trego, Wis.Joan Beck, CornelsenDirector of SpiritualFormation and Pastor tothe Community, conducteda selection interview forthe Congregation andSynodical Mission Unit ofthe ELCA on September 2to identify pastors appropriatefor leading a missiondevelopment or redevelopmentfor the church.Kathleen D. (Kadi)Billman, John H. TietjenProfessor of PastoralMinistry: Pastoral Theologypublished “Responding toand Suffering in the Nameof Jesus: Relief, Relationship,and Resistance” in In thePrecious Name, ed. DouglasRuffle and Nicola Mulligan(Tom’s River, N.J.: JerseyShore Press, 2011).Philip Hougen, actingpresident, attended theSoutheastern Iowa SynodAssembly in May and theCentral/Southern Illinoisand Northern IllinoisSynod Assemblies in June.President Hougen also representedLSTC at the ELCAChurchwide Assembly inOrlando, Fla. in August.Ralph Klein, ChristSeminary-Seminex ProfessorEmeritus of Old Testament,presented a two-part studyof Luther at Grace LutheranChurch, LaGrange, Ill. inSeptember.Richard Perry, associateprofessor of church andsociety and urban ministry,served as the representativeof the LSTC facultyat the ELCA ChurchwideAssembly, August 15–19.During the introduction ofthe “Recommended SocialStatement on Genetics” tothe assembly, he presented“How the Statement Speaksto Me.” His essay for GoodSoil was a part of their contributionto the devotionsof the assembly.In May, Perry gavea presentation on theRecommended ProposedSocial Statement onGenetics at Trinity LutheranChurch, Park Forest, Ill.He published “Neibuhrand Politics” in the May/June issue of The Journalof Lutheran Ethics and“Martin Luther King Jr.and the Christian Life”in the April 2010 issueof the same journal. Hisreview of Reinhold NiebuhrRevisited: Engagement withan American Original ed.Daniel F. Rice appearedin The Journal of LutheranEthics (May/June 2011).Ray Pickett, professor ofNew Testament, gave presentationson Luke/Acts forthe Texas- Louisiana GulfCoast Synod DiscipleshipProject, a cross-cultural,cross-generational leadershipschool for people in8th grade through adultsheld at Texas LutheranUniversity in June. He alsoled Bible study for LSTC’sServing Christ in the WorldYouth in Mission Programin June.Pickett’s article, “AnEcomony of Grace”appeared in the Augustissue of The Lutheran magazine.David Rhoads, professoremeritus of New Testament,published The Seasonsof Creation: A PreachingCommentary edited withNorman Habel and PaulSantmire (Fortress Press,2011).His essay, “Mark as StoryReflections,” written withJoanna Dewey and DonaldMichie was published inMark as Story: Retrospect andProspect (Society of BiblicalLiterature, 2011). His 2010Hein Fry lecture appears asthe essay “Recovering theBible as Oral Performancesin Community” in Teachingthe Bible in the Parish (andBeyond) (Hein Fry Lectures for2010) (Minneapolis, MN:Lutheran University Press,2011).Rhoads’ article, coauthoredby Aaron Cooper,“Seasons of Creation,”may be read on The LivingLutheran website http://www.livinglutheran.com/seeds/the-season-of-creation.htm.Barbara Rossing, professorof New Testament, traveledto Germany in Mayand June as a TransatlanticClimate Fellow with theHeinrich Boell Foundation.She attended the Kirchentagin Dresden and then traveledto Berlin to meet withclimate and energy policypeople at the invitation ofthe foundation.Craig Satterlee, Axel Jacoband Gerda Maria (Swanson)Carlson Professor ofHomiletics, participated ina planning meeting of theAcademy committee of theNorth American Academyof Liturgy in Montreal fromAugust 5-8. He preachedthis summer at CalvaryLutheran Church, Chicago,and at Grace LutheranChurch, LaGrange, Ill. InSeptember he returnedto Calvary LutheranChurch to preach. InOctober he preached at St.Andrew Lutheran Church,Glenwood, Ill.In June, Satterlee participatedin the 2010-11Teaching and LearningColloquy for Mid-CareerTheological School Facultyat the Wabash Center forTeaching and Learning inTheology and Religion. Healso presented “Telling YourStory of Faith” for LSTC’sServing Christ in the WorldYouth in Mission Program.Satterelee gave threelectures and preached on“Worship and Wholeness”at the SouthwesternWashington SynodAssembly, May 13–14. Hisarticle, “Learning to PictureGod from Those WhoCannot See,” was publishedonline by Homiletics http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/homiletic/viewarticle.php?id=157.He published “Why DoWe Give?” in the AlbanWeekly (July 4, 2011) http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=9684Lea Schweitz, assistant professorof systematic theology/religionand science and22
director of the Zygon Centerfor Religion and Science,was awarded a SummerResearch Fellowship fromthe Wabash Center forTeaching and Learning duringthe summer of 2011.She was also invited tojoin the ELCA SteeringCommittee for the Alliancefor Faith, Science, andTechnology in 2011.Schweitz and MichaelHogue published “ExploringHumanity and Our Relations”in Zygon: Journal of Religionand Science (June 2011). Theyalso served as guest editorsof the “Voices from the NextGeneration” section thatsame issue of Zygon.Benjamin Stewart, GordonA. Braatz Assistant Professorof Worship, was the keynotespeaker for the firstLutheran Studies Conferenceat Pacific LutheranUniversity, Tacoma, Wash.His topic: water resources.Stewart spoke at the Food,Justice and SustainabilityYoung Leadership Programat KAM Isaiah Synagogue,Chicago, in July.Mark Swanson, HaroldS. Vogelaar Professor ofChristian-Muslim Studiesand Interfaith Relationsand associate director of ACenter of Christian-MuslimEngagement for Peace andJustice, was the keynotespeaker at the conference“Us and Them: Constructingthe ‘Other’ and Pathways forDialog,” at the Dialogue ofCivilizations Platform 2011,Gülen Institute, University ofHouston, on September 23.Linda Thomas, professorof theology and anthropology,in December 2010concluded a six-year termas co-convener of theWomanist Approaches toReligion and Society Groupof the American Academyof Religion. She servesas Global Chair of theWomen’s Commission ofthe Ecumenical Associationof Third World Theologians(EATWOT).During her sabbaticallast year, Thomas served asreferee and mentor for theUnited Methodist Womenof Color Scholars Program;preached at Cross LutheranChurch, Milwaukee, Wis.;and taught the 10-weekadult education course,“Black Women’s God-Talk:Womanist Theology,” atTrinity United Church ofChrist, Chicago.Thomas and DwightHopkins, edited WalkTogether Children: Black andWomanist Theologies, Churchand Theological Education(Eugene, OR, CascadeBooks, 2010).Thomas’ article, “TheAesthetic Dimensionsof Religion in SouthAfrica,” was published inBodies Beautiful: AestheticDimensions of ReligiousThought and Life in Africaand the African Diaspora,Anthony Pinn, ed. (NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan,2010). Her article, “Whatthe Mind Forgets the BodyRemembers: Women,Poverty and HIV” waspublished in Women andChristianity, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan and Karen JoTorjesen eds. (Greenwood:Praeger Press, 2010). Her twocommentaries, “PentecostSunday” and TrinitySunday” appear in Feastingon the Word: Preaching theRevised Common LectionaryYear C, Vol. 3: Pentecost andthe Season after Pentecost(Propers 3–16) (Louisville:Westminster John KnoxPress, 2010).Christine Wenderoth,director of the JKM Libraryand associate professor ofministry, attended and hostedthe American TheologicalLibrary Association (ATLA)Annual Conference inChicago, June 7–11. Sheled a session on “SpeedWeeding,” participated onthe Education Committee,served a liaison for the threeworship services, sang inthe ATLA choir, staffed theLocal Host desk and was thehost for the concluding barbequeon the LSTC campuswhere approximately 150theological librarians fromaround the world feastedand toured JKM East.Wenderoth contributedan essay to the festschriftvolume honoring the directorof the ATLA Singers(choir) of over 20 years,Seth Kasten.Audrey West, adjunct professorof New Testament,published the commentaries“Luke 12: 13–21:Theological Perspective”; “Luke 12: 32–42: TheologicalPerspective”; and “Luke12: 49–56: TheologicalPerspective” in Feastingon the Word: Preaching theRevised Common Lectionary,Year C, David L Bartlettand Barbara Frown Taylor,eds., Vol. 3 (Louisville:Westminster John KnoxPress, 2010).West’s commentaries“John 11: 1–45 (FifthSunday in Lent): ExegeticalPerspective”; “Matthew 21,1–11 (Liturgy of the Palms):Exegetical Perspective”;and “Matthew 27, 11–54(Liturgy of the Passion):Exegetical Perspective”appear in Feasting on theWord: Preaching the RevisedCommon Lectionary, YearA, David L. Bartlett andBarbara Frown Taylor,eds., Vol. 3 (Louisville:Westminster John KnoxPress, 2010)Vítor Westhelle, professorof systematic theology,delivered the presentation,“Exploring EffectiveContext” at the LutheranWorld Federation biblicalconsultation in Nairobi,Kenya, in September. Aninterview with Westhelleabout his role at the consultationwas published onlineat http://www.lutheranworld.org/lwf/index.php/south-perspectives-changeluther-scholarship.html.Westhelle published“Displacing Identities:Hybrid Distinctiveness inTheology and Literature” inOut of Place: Doing Theologyon the Crosscultural Brink,Jione Havea and ClivePearson eds. (London:Equinox Publishing, 2011).His essay “Entre Américas:convergências e divergêngiasteológicas” appears inTeologia e Ciências da Religião:A caminho da maioridadeacadêmica no Barasil, EduardoR. da Cruz and Geraldde Mori, eds. (Sao Paulo:Paulina; Belo Horizonte:PUC Minas, 2011). Westehllecontributed “Lutheranismand Culture in the Americas:A Comparative Study” toTransformations in Luther’sTheology: Historical andContemporary Reflections,Christine Helmer and BoKristian Holm, eds, for theseries, Arbeiten zur KirchenundTheologiegeschichte32, (Leipzig: EvangelischeVerlagsanstalt 2011). He contributed“Mal” to DicionárioBrasileiro de Teologia,Fernando Bortolleto Filho,José Carlos de Souza,Nelson Kilpp, eds. (SãoPaulo: ASTE, 2008).23
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