This free online course will explore:
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Key Terms
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History
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Future vision for how the good news allows Christians to live faith out loud
By the end of the course, participants will have new knowledge for understanding the good news of God in Jesus Christ and how the church can respond to that good news.
This is an independent program of the Lutheran Center for students, staff, faculty, and greater community members. It is not a St. Olaf College credit-bearing course and is not a St. Olaf College Curriculum course.
Rev. Dr. Anna Madsen
Lutheran pastor and public theologian, is host of the Spent Dandelion Theological Retreat Center, situated along the North Shore in Two Harbors, Minnesota, and the creator of OMG: Center for Theological Conversation, through which she writes, blogs, consults, and presents. Her work can be found regularly in Gather Magazine and the Living Lutheran. Her first book I Can Do No Other: The Church’s New Here We Stand Moment addresses the call to speak not just to justification but to justice, and her latest book Joyful Defiance: Death Does Not Win The Day, also through Fortress Press, seeks to ground the experience of joy within the experience of lament, leading to a life which echoes the holy truth of Holy Saturday. She and her husband David Willis have just launched a business for her son Karl, who suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury at a young age. Through Two Lugs and a Nut Workshop, they make candles and etchings, but more importantly they love the fullness and the heck out of Karl.