A Panel Discussion on Hidden Inheritance with Rev. Heidi Neumark and Steve Hunegs
Deanna Thompson facilitates a panel discussion with Rev. Neumark and Steve Hunegs, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council for Minnesota and the Dakotas. This event was part of a series of events exploring Lutheran-Jewish relations.
Rev. Heidi Neumark in Daily Chapel
Rev. Neumark, author of the 21-22 All-Community Read book Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith, speaks in daily chapel.
Spring Symposium 2022: Luther’s Legacy of Anti-Judaism and Contemporary Jewish-Lutheran Relations
Kathryn Lohre ’99 and Rabbi Dr. Ryan Dulkin were the featured speakers for the 2022 Spring Symposium. The Symposium was part of a series of events exploring Lutheran-Jewish relations.
Mt. Olive Lutheran Hope Matters Podcast
In February 2022, Deanna was interviewed by Rev. Eric Shafer, Senior Pastor at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Santa Monica, as part of the Hope Matters podcast.
Reflections on Deuteronomy
Dr. Deanna Thompson
St. Olaf Daily Chapel
November 17, 2021
Recasting Vocation in a New Planetary Era
On May 13, 2021, a panel of scholars and practitioners reflected on Assistant Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies Kiara Jorgenson’s Ecology of Vocation: Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era and on the intersections of Lutheran identity and institutional ecological vocation amid the losses and pressures of climate change. Featuring panelists:
Interfaith Perspectives on Vocation
On April 15, 2021, a panel of alumni shared the role their faith/religious traditions/core commitments have played in their vocational discernment and how those aspects of their identity impacted their course of study at St. Olaf as well as their career paths since graduation. Featuring panelists:
Maren Aspaas ’89
Satveer Chaudhary ’91
Laura Crosskey ’07
Branden Grimmett ’03
Emery R. Utevsky ’18
Spring 2021 Symposium: Christian Islamophobia Past and Present
Todd Green and Jaylani Hussein were the featured speakers for the Lutheran Center Spring Symposium on March 30, 2021.
What Can We Learn about Being Human from Life Online?
Deanna Thompson interviews Chris Stedman, author of IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives. March 9, 2021
Chris Stedman in St. Olaf Daily Chapel
Chris Stedman, author of IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives, speaks in daily chapel.
Lent, Winter, and the Pandemic
Dr. Deanna Thompson
St. Olaf Daily Chapel
February 16, 2021
Keynote Address: Racial Justice, Interfaith Cooperation, and the Common Good on Campus and Beyond
Eboo Patel’s virtual visit to St. Olaf culminated in his keynote address to the St. Olaf community.
October 29, 2020
The Vocation of Friendship
Dr. Deanna Thompson
St. Olaf Daily Chapel
October 21, 2020
Dr. J. Todd Billings’ The End of Christian Life Podcast
Director Deanna Thompson was a guest on Dr. J. Todd Billings’ The End of Christian Life podcast in September. Together the two discussed the relationship between serious chronic illness and trauma and looked for places in the biblical narrative that make space for us to acknowledge our sense of being undone.
Lutheran Center Fall Symposium:
The Bible, Race, and the Art of Ambivalence: A Cambodian-American Lutheran Reading
Kristofer Coffman ’13 was the featured speaker at the 2020 Lutheran Center Fall Symposium.
Holy Communion in the Time of COVID: Eucharistic Practices and Perspectives
A panel discussion, including Director Deanna Thompson, reflecting on communion practices during a pandemic.
Steele Talkin’ with Jearlyn Steele
Director Deanna Thompson was a guest on the WCCO Radio program Steele Talkin’ with Jearlyn Steele on Sunday, June 28. Together, she and Steele discussed how worshipers are adjusting to a new fully-online experience.
Leadership in a Pandemic
Director Deanna Thompson explains how a Lutheran lens can help us think about leadership during a time of pandemic.
Common Read – Acts of Faith
In partnership with the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts, Director Deanna Thompson introduces faculty and staff to St. Olaf’s 2020 Common Read book, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel, and explores strategies on how to incorporate the book and its themes into curricular and co-curricular plans for fall 2020.
Rev. Lenny Duncan Keynote Lecture
Rev. Lenny Duncan, ELCA pastor and author of Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S., speaks to the St. Olaf community.
February 18, 2020
Rev. Lenny Duncan at St. Olaf Daily Chapel
Rev. Lenny Duncan, ELCA pastor and author of Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S., speaks in daily chapel.
February 18, 2020
Lutheran Center Launch Celebration: “A Gracious, Religiously Inclusive Community: What it Looks Like and Why it Matters”
Deanna Thompson (welcome)
Arneshia Williams (opening ritual)
Bishop William O. Gafkjen ‘79 and Jenan Mohajir
Viking Chorus (sending)
October 24, 2019
Lutheran Center Launch Celebration
Bishop William O. Gafkjen ‘79 and Jenan Mohajir
St. Olaf Daily Chapel
October 24, 2019
“Beyond Deep Gladness: Vocations We Don’t Choose”
Deanna Thompson
St. Olaf Daily Chapel
September 15, 2019