{"id":1183,"date":"2021-02-19T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:46:55","slug":"amplifying-justice-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/2021\/02\/amplifying-justice-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplifying Justice Podcast: “Nourished by Lutheran Tradition” at St. Olaf"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently Lutheran Center director Deanna Thompson was interviewed for an episode of the Amplifying\u00a0Justice\u00a0Podcast<\/a> produced by the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and\u00a0Justice at Vanderbilt University. In January 2021 the Wendland-Cook Program hosted four St. Olaf interns, and senior St. Olaf intern Anna Barnard interviews Deanna along with St. Olaf alum Aaron Stauffer \u201910, the Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt Divinity School in the Wendland-Cook Program.<\/h5>\n

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As an ELCA-affiliated institution, St. Olaf aims to \u201cbe nourished by Lutheran tradition,\u201d according to its mission statement. At the same time, only 23% of students from the class of 2021 identify as Lutheran, while 33% identify as non-religious. In their conversation, Anna, Deanna, and Aaron explore St. Olaf\u2019s Lutheran identity and the challenges that St. Olaf faces in fostering a religiously inclusive community.<\/p>\n