Church Planting Course
Recently, WELS Home Missions launched an ambitious initiative to plant a hundred new home mission churches over the next ten years. For the first time during Winterim, a group of students had the opportunity to ...
Winterim 2023
During early January, Winterim—the two-week session between semesters—gave students an opportunity to study in areas of personal interest not part of the regular seminary curriculum. Many students also participated in directed research, outreach trips, or ...
Professor Paul Wendland to Retire
Professor Paul Wendland will step away from full-time service to the seminary at the end of this school year. Called initially as professor of New Testament and homiletics in 2001, he later accepted the Lord’s ...
Goetzinger accepts call
Pastor Harland Goetzinger has accepted the call to serve as the next director of the Pastoral Studies Institute (PSI) and as a member of the seminary faculty. This call was necessitated by Prof. Jon Bare's decision to ...
The Little Lighthouse
Five-year-olds are easily impressed by novel things. Kindergarten Sunday school was my first big impression of Jesus and his guiding love. On a child’s 5th birthday in the early 1950s, our Lutheran kindergarten Sunday school ...
A Matter of Perspective
Do you ever think about what it would be like to go back and relive a portion of your younger days? Everybody’s experience growing up is different, of course. But many who have crested the ...
Caring for the Temple
There are times when you need to care for yourself before you can care for others. It could be called the oxygen mask rule. On an airplane, you are told to put your mask on ...
Professor emeritus David P. Kuske called home
"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants" (Ps 116:15). On October 29, 2022, the Lord called to himself the soul of Professor emeritus David P. Kuske, at the ...
Formed through Trials
When my wife Lauren and I were choosing a text for our recent wedding, we wanted something to cling to. We wanted something to hold near to our hearts as we face the inevitable struggles ...
Prepared for the Parsonage
I'm not a pastor’s kid. I graduated from a non-WELS high school. I’m not from the Midwest, and I’m an introvert. So, as I consider my recent transition to the parish life, I’m asking myself, ...