Seminar Feedback

Here’s what recent seminar attendees have to say about the program:

“The collegiality and general sense of open, thoughtful, engaged sharing of ideas across disciplines, personal backgrounds, and somewhat different religious and ideological backgrounds. We shared enough so that we could converse at a deeper level, but we were different enough to make the conversations interesting.”

“Location was great, topic fascinating, colleagues and facilitator excellent…Interaction with other Lutheran scholars clearly was best. The reading was most helpful, but that would have been much less stimulating without the interaction. The prodding to write my thoughts (even though publication has not occurred yet) was exceedingly helpful to me too. I wrote things that I otherwise would not have – and what I wrote has been important to me in many other contexts since then.”

“The opportunity to spend guided time thinking, interacting, reading, writing, listening –and receiving monetary recognition that these were important to the Lutheran Church and to my University.”

“I find Lutherans under-represented when I attend other conferences on Christianity and fine arts: hence, the more excited I was by the possibility of participation in this seminar.”

“It helped me clarify several of my ideas about pluralism – in regard to both my theology and my scholarly analyses. That has been more fundamentally important to my scholarship (and to my life) than a mere statement on paper can adequately convey.”

“Clearer sense of present vocation, a wealth of professional connections both inside and outside of my field, better understanding of Lutheran implications of my teaching and scholarly work.”

“It is encouraging to see an effort being made to tap our colleges as an intellectual resource rather than treating them solely as teaching machines.”

“It actually opened up a new area of research for me.”