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Fall Convocation: The Double-Edged Sword: How the Digital World Hurts and HealsThursday, September 17, 9 am - 4 pm EDT on the Philadelphia Campus. The internet, smartphones, AI—all are utilities which both enhance and detract from our daily living. What is the ethical means by which we engage with technology that is rapidly changing our fragile world community? Speakers |
Dr. Deanna Thompson is an author, speaker, and former Director of the Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community and Martin E. Marty Regents Chair of Religion and the Academy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.She has been living with stage IV cancer since 2008 and found solace and spiritual renewal in a Caring Bridge community online. Deanna shares this compelling story in her book The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World and Glimpsing Resurrection: Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry. |
Dr. Michael Hanegan is the Founder of the Center for the Future of Learning and Work. He is an adjunct professor at Rose State College where he teaches on the theory, ethics, and social impact of Generative AI on learning and work. He is the co-author of Generative AI and Libraries: Claiming Our Place in the Center of a Shared Future. Michael serves as an advisor to numerous institutions and industry partners on the human factors of AI experimentation, adoption, and integration. For the last three years he has offered a series of micro-credentials and other training opportunities in partnership with the Association of Theological Schools, Atla, and the InTrust Center for Theological Schools. Michael’s work focuses on the renegotiation of the relationship of learning and work, how generative AI complicates, accelerates, and enhances that future, and the ways in which we can collectively build a world that is good for the whole human family.
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LGBTQIA+ Cultural Competency and Gender TrainingSeptember 9 & 10, online from 6 – 8:30 pm (one training, two nights) October 5, Gettysburg Campus in person, 10 am – 3pm November 9, online from 10 am – 3 pm
Racial Justice Training September 14 & 15, online from 6 – 8:30 pm (one training, two nights) October 13, Gettysburg Campus in person, 10 am – 3pm November 10, online from 10 am – 3 pm
Boundary Training September 21 & 22, online from 6 – 8:30 pm (one training, two nights) October 6, Gettysburg Campus in person, 10 am – 3pm November 11, online from 10 – 3 pm
These trainings fulfill requirements for rostered leaders according to ELCA guidelines. Folks from all synods are welcome, of course! |
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Unleashed and Uplifted: Fall Women's RetreatOctober 19-21, Gettysburg Campus A "Changing the Narrative" Retreat for women/fem identified rostered and lay leaders and seminarians. The Bible celebrates gifted and passionate women in multiple roles. We are entrepreneurs and executive leaders, like Lydia. We are multi-media creatives and space-holders for mindfulness and dynamic self and group expression, like Miriam. We are prophets and strategists, like Deborah and servant leaders, like Phoebe. All of which takes discernment, inspiration, and energy - which can be in short supply with the loads we carry and the challenges that surround and move into our communities. You are invited in your blessed and sacred - and quite possibly searching, burned-out, or seeking solidarity - full self to a continuing education retreat with an emphasis on CONTINUING. How can we bring fresh energy, dynamic creativity, and healing compassion in a sustainable and joy-filled way to a congregation, organization, or neighborhood in active struggle or suffering from flat-out exhaustion? We will focus on practical, realistic, and achievable techniques to combat burnout in ourselves and to work with staff, teams, volunteers - each mini-toolkit inspired by women leaders in the Bible; their audacious hope, the power of their shared stories, their spiritual practices, and their networks of support. We will explore, accompanied by both social worker-turned-pastor, the Rev. Carla Christopher and licensed counselor, Kimberly Tribbett, the Biblical and evidence-based community applications of trauma-informed care, strategies for building belonging, developing intersectional partnerships and resourcing relationships, and spiritual care coaching through accessible, creative practices. Come prepared to receive a loving invitation to release what has been holding you back, the reclaim your story in an affirming space, to dwell in the subtext of Biblical stories that affirm our strength and faith even when navigation the hard stuff, and to go forth inspired, renewed, and accompanied by joyful sisterhood. |
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