Repentance’

Lenten series, workshop

How do you live a life of repentance? That question served as the main theme of the 2023 Pre-Lenten Workshop for pastors, “Honest Repentance,” held Jan. 20 on campus. That also was the focus of a new Lenten Sermon Series, available this year from Concordia Seminary Press, the publishing arm of Concordia Seminary. Series author and workshop presenter Dr. David Maxwell, the Seminary’s Louis A. Fincke and Anna B. Shine Professor of Systematic Theology, used Scripture readings traditionally read at the Easter Vigil to explore what repentance is — and what a life of repentance looks like. Learn more at csl.edu/newsroom.

Distance students celebrate calls, assignments

The Concordia Seminary, St. Louis community celebrated 26 distance program students Jan. 13 and 18 other distance students Feb. 9 in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus as the students reached a major milestone along their path to becoming pastors and deaconesses in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. On Jan. 13, 17 students in the Specific Ministry Pastor (SMP) Program received their call assignments, and eight SMP students and one Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology student concluded their programs and received pastoral calls. On Feb. 9, 16 SMP and Cross-cultural Ministry Center students received their vicarage assignments, and two Center for Hispanic Studies students received their deaconess internship assignments.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Call Day

Assignment of Vicarages and Deaconess Internships 3 p.m. (CDT)

Assignment of Calls 7 p.m. (CDT)

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MAY 19 Commencement

Theological Diploma Service 10 a.m. (CDT) Commencement 7 p.m. (CDT)

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