On Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, Dr. Laurence R. Rast, Jr. was installed as the sixteenth president of Concordia Theological Seminary. It was an exciting day, a good day, a day filled with sunshine, excitement, and tangible optimism. And there was Dr. Scaer. And where Dr. Scaer is, there is wittiness, smarts, ready responses, genuine pastoral care. And there was a lot of laughter, a lot … Continue reading dr. rast’s installation
Katie Schuermann is a lovely woman, a pious Lutheran, a faithful wife. She’s funny. She’s smart. She’s talented. She’s a daughter, a sister, a godmother, a friend. She also happens to bear a particularly difficult cross, a cross that she’s written about in her newly-released book He Remembers the Barren, a book that tackles how Lutherans understand barrenness, marriage, children, and families in a world … Continue reading He Remembers the Barren
I miss the seminary. I mean that literally. Not like, “I will literally die if I don’t buy these adorable cowboy boots that are just my size.” As in, I literally miss everything about Concordia Theological Seminary and Fort Wayne. I miss the classrooms, the professors, the discussions, the humor. I miss Dr. Scaer’s lightning quick hmor, Dr. Masaki’s gentle “is wrong question,” Dr. Fickenscher’s … Continue reading missing CTS
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