Not Just Academics

What do seminarians do for fun?” That’s a question I hear a lot. I think sometimes people hear “seminary” and picture something like a 15th-century monastery. They assume that all our days are spent in ...

Preacher Podcast

Podcasts—sets of audio recordings that people can play on demand on their smartphones or computers—are proliferating, as they have been for many years. How many podcasts are there now? Estimates vary widely. In all, there ...

Study Tour to Israel and Jordan in 2025

The land of Israel is not large geographically, but in salvation history it is massive. From apostles' boats in Galilee to Solomon's ships in Aqaba, from Goliath's Philistine plain to Jesus' Calvary mount, the biggest ...

Apply Today for a $1,000 Ministry Grant!

Apply today for a $1,000 gift intended to encourage WELS pastors to partner with their lay leaders as they study and grow together. A retired pastor and his wife gifted this for pastors and lay leaders to ...

Final District Satellite for 2023

In 2023, eight of our districts participated in our Satellite Summer Quarter. Bringing courses to pastors has been a highlight for our programs this year. Our final Satellite Summer Quarter for this year is hosted ...

Newest Grow in Grace Face

This past month, Grow in Grace welcomed a new team member, Shawn Marron. Shawn will serve as Grow in Grace's student worker while he attends the seminary. Before enrolling at the seminary, Shawn served as ...

A New Home

You’re moving from Florida to Wisconsin in January? That’s crazy!” My family and I heard these words many times after announcing that my husband had accepted a call to serve as a professor at Wisconsin ...

Psalm 103

Nathan once told David a story that made him angry at the evildoer. Then Nathan said, “You are the man!” In Matthew 18:21-35, Jesus tells the story of a man who was forgiven a humongous ...

Grace in Addiction

Free to be Flexible

Allow me to state the obvious. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod does not operate a seminary for the sake of operating a seminary. Our forebears didn’t establish a seminary in 1863 to provide the fledgling ...