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institutions, especially as these intersect with contemporary challenges, opportunities, and initiatives. This issue goes right to the heart of our calling to care for and challenge students – even and especially in these difficult days. Preview essays in this issue with the individual links below: A New Image for an Ancient Call: Lutheran Higher Education Amidst Pandemics Today Caryn D. Riswold Learning from Luther on Covid-19 Carl Hughes Radical Hospitality on Haunted Grounds: Anti-Racism in Lutheran
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thought my pediatrician was the nicest person in the world and cared so much about me and my health. That is something I want to do, help out and do whatever I can to make sure that people are healthy. Did anyone in your family influence this? My grandpa is a dentist and my mom is a dental hygienist. They work together. They showed me how to be professional and be someone who can take care of patients. Is there a story that stands out? It happens every six months. My little sister and I get our teeth
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problem,” he said of how our species functions with the world. We are now facing not only an environmental crisis, but a “civilization crisis,” he said. Destruction is not a sustainable way of life, he said. Religion has and can play a big role in how the species views itself within the context of the natural world. To sustain and re-vitalize, there must be a religious and a moral transition for the care of a healthy Earth, Rasmussen said. God and the ecosphere must be viewed as a whole. It is the
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. Rude comes to PLU from Chicago, where she most recently served as program director for Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, and as a colleague in ministry at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston, Ill.At Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, Rude led programs committed to expanding opportunities nationally in the ELCA for LGBTQ pastors. She has also served as youth outreach minister for The Night Ministry in Chicago, where she provided pastoral care, crisis response and advocacy in an interfaith and
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4 Reasons to Choose PLU’s Master of Science in Kinesiology Posted by: chaconac / September 26, 2022 September 26, 2022 Ranked by Niche as the top Kinesiology department in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest, the Master of Science in Kinesiology at PLU brings a tradition of excellence into the graduate degree.The program combines a rigorous academic experience with real-world, relevant and impactful applications designed to intentionally address critical gaps in kinesiology training and
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economy. More than 10,000 PLU alumni make their home in the area. And more than 3,500 students enroll at PLU every year and the university employs 700 faculty and staff. “I thank you for recognizing and holding up the essential and critical role of education in the context of economic development,” he said. “And, there is much to celebrate.” But he expressed pause in celebrating. As the PLU president nears the end of his 20 years at the university, he expressed concern about the future of a “new
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delves deeper into the wage gap, strategies for negotiation, budgeting and building confidence to ask for more money,” she said. Moran said the workshop will help participants understand how the gender gap affects them and learn how to: develop a personal budget to determine salary needs; ensure you are receiving equal pay for equal work from the beginning of your career all the way to retirement; negotiate a first salary out of college; and benchmark salary and benefits. “It’s critical to know your
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loved ones.As a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), we are called upon to live our commitment to combating racism and white supremacy. We commend our students, alumni, faculty, and staff who already are contributing their professional expertise and volunteering their time, energy, and financial resources to antiracism causes. At PLU, we strive to equip our students — and ourselves — with the critical thinking, compassion, and courage to contribute to the dismantling of
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have extraordinarily innovative ideas about how to expand and add nuance to how we engage critical questions as a learning community working in intentional collaboration with local, regional and international partners. There’s a lot of exciting work ahead.” This article is one of a four-part series on faculty innovators in the latest issue of ResoLute Magazine. Read about faculty innovators Renzhi Cao, Cameron Bennett and Karen McConnell. Read Previous Lute Powered: Amazon Read Next Faculty
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Falls, Montana. “I love New York,” she says. “I love the people here. I love the energy, and I love the possibilities within the work that I do.” Her career was set in motion thanks to PLU’s expansive approach to critical inquiry and learning. “That’s something I just really cherish PLU for,” she says. “The space for ambiguity and having it be okay to not necessarily know what you want out of life at 18, and the support to explore where your curiosity leads you. To find where your skills best align
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