Worship Resources and Devotionals
Near and Now
Ash Wednesday
1st Sunday of Lent
2nd Sunday of Lent
3rd Sunday of Lent
4th Sunday of Lent
5th Sunday of Lent
Palm/Passion Sunday
Engaging The Living Word
Sample Worship Outline – Psalm 42 – Section 1
Sample Worship Outline – Matthew 9 – Section 1
Sample Worship Outline – Rachel – Section 1
Sample Worship Outline – Hagar – Section 1
Sample Worship Outline – Ephesians – Section 2
Sample Worship Outline – Mark 7 – Section 2
Sample Worship Outline – Abraham & Sarah – Section 2
Sample Worship Outline – Matthew 6 – Section 3
Sample Worship Outline – Sarah – Section 3
Teaching and Planning Resources
Phase 2 Planning:
Please see the Phase 2 materials below
Please see the Phase 2 materials below
- The Called Life. Ministry on Purpose for the Common Good
- VOCARE Congregational Reflection
- Discerning Our Values – Resourcing Conversation Process Guide
- Values Template
- My Living Faith
- Parish Gathering 1: Where have we been? Worksheet
- Parish Gathering 2: Where are we now? Worksheet
- Distinguishing Technical and Adaptive Work
- Near and Nows and Engaging The Living Words for Phase 2
Please find here all the materials for the VOCARE Congregational Retreat.
“Vocare” Liturgies
Here you can find booklet forms of the liturgy to be used at any time.
Legal Sized Booklet in Black & White
Letter Sized Booklet in Black & White
Alternate Liturgy:
Here you can find forms of the liturgy to be used in the evening.
“Vocare” St. Olaf Chapel Talks
“Quite a good life philosophy too” by Space & Light is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Hannah Wangen ’22
Hometown: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Wagen addresses love, gratitude and holy spirit while reflecting on her connection with the church and personal stories. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Values, Openness, Experiencing God’s Presence, love.
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Emmanuel Bioh ‘22
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Bioh addresses Black femininity, love, and beauty, while reflecting upon personal collegiate experiences. Themes: well-being, identity, values, love, woundedness, beauty, God.
Daniel Lane ’22
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lane discusses the philosophical meaning behind light and dark based on religious texts. Theme: Values, Young Adults, Openness, Attention, Digital media.
Evan Strong ’22
Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Strong addresses a way of finding harmony among repelled identities through sharing his understanding on controversial identities of Quantum Physics, Homosexuality and Christianity. Themes: Openness, Values, Young Adults, Woundedness, Vocation, Identity, Faith, Love.
Mike Guzman & Kamaya Hart ’22
Position: Chair of Cultural Union for Black Expression
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Guzman reads his grandmother’s journal and emphasizes the importance of food in black culture. Hart shares the value of God heals us, tells stories to us and feeds us to point out the love within the food and the cruciality in American Black culture. Themes: Value, Anti-Racism, Love, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Hannah Niederman ’23
Hometown: Skokie, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Niederman addresses the spiritual healing process from Torah – encounter new days with new eyes. Themes: Young Adults, Experience God’s Presence, Value, Faith, Identity.
Seng Lor ’23
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lor introduced the history of Hmong people (an ethnicity of Southeast Asia) through his understanding of the two poems. Themes: Faith, Attention, Longing of Home, Love, Woundedness, Anti- Racism, Economics, Young Adults, Value, Social Justice.
Sarah Zaepfel ’20
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Zaepfel addresses her exploration of her connection with different churches and identities and understands “It’s you, God likes.”.
Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Digital Media, Values.
Nigel Gillespie ’20
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Gillespie addresses his infinitive intention to be baptized.
Themes: Values, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Marina Fomgbami ’21
Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fomgbami addresses the inequalities in the medical field for black women and her willingness to break the general unfriendly stereotype to nurses for the common good
Themes: Call, Young Adults, Anti-Racism, Values, Faith
Marvellous John ’21
Hometown: Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: John addresses her relationship with God through the Bible as a tool
Themes: Values, Faith, Young Adult, Call, Attention
Olaf Morkeberg ’21
Hometown: Jordan, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Morkeberg addresses Peace and Harmony while reflecting on his experiences of chakra meditation
Themes: Value, Vocation, Faith, Love, Young Adult, Attention, Well-being
Sarah Golemon-Mercer ’20
Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Golemon-Mercer addresses relational love, self love and love on justice, how love as centered egos, identity while reflecting the hurt self
Themes: Young Adult, Value, Faith, Love, Community, Vocation, Well-being, Attention
George Arbanas ’20
Hometown: Saint Louis, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Arbanas addresses how his Orthdox Christian identity interacts with the local Lutheran community
Themes: Faith, Value, Identity, Young Adults, Openness
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation
Wed Al-Nod ’19
Degree: Biology Major
Recorded Location: Virtual Worship
Annotation: Al-Nod addresses the connections between the global phenomena and Koran while reflecting on the Scientific discoveries.
Themes: Values, Vocation, Young Adults
Beverly Wallace
Title: Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wallace addresses Identity, Faith, Value and healthy & honest intimate relationships with one self while reflecting on the story from the Bible
Themes: Faith, Value, Feminine power, Vocation, Well being
Regina Hassanally
Title: Bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hassanally addresses Trust the Space and Live in the Presence.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Value, Faith, Call
Kristine Carlson ’74
Title: Retired ELCA Pastor
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Carlson addresses her call from the church, unknown with the self through reflecting on the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke
Themes: Call, Vocation, Faith, Value,
Inger Hanson
Title: Senior Pastor, Bethel Lutheran Church
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hanson addresses love while reflecting on Disney films and Corinth
Themes: Vocation, Call, Love, Value
Katherine Fick
Title: Associate College Pastor
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fick addresses to embrace and love the mystery.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Vocation, Values
Charlene Cox
Title: Program Director for Congregational Thriving, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Cox addresses the courage to hope, to thanks, God made you, thanks you, keeps you.
Themes: Experience God’s presence, Vocation, Value, Call
Deanna Thompson ’89
Title: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuteronomy for Christians.
Themes: Vocation, Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism.
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness
Trish Zimmerman
Title: Associate Professor of Practice in Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zimmerman addresses the philosophy of identity and mutual dependency while reflecting on nature, the pandemic and the reading from Psalm 104
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Well-being, Attention, Openness
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the black people and self, the power of black ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong.”
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Hannah Wangen ’22
Hometown: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Wagen addresses love, gratitude and holy spirit while reflecting on her connection with the church and personal stories. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Values, Openness, Experiencing God’s Presence, love.
Daniel Lane ’22
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lane discusses the philosophical meaning behind light and dark based on religious texts. Theme: Values, Young Adults, Openness, Attention, Digital media.
Evan Strong ’22
Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Strong addresses a way of finding harmony among repelled identities through sharing his understanding on controversial identities of Quantum Physics, Homosexuality and Christianity. Themes: Openness, Values, Young Adults, Woundedness, Vocation, Identity, Faith, Love.
George Arbanas ’20
Hometown: Saint Louis, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Arbanas addresses how his Orthdox Christian identity interacts with the local Lutheran community
Themes: Faith, Value, Identity, Young Adults, Openness.
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2.
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation.
Anant Rambachan
Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rambachan addresses the inclusivity of interreligious faiths, Spiritual Wisdom and the appreciation to learn about other religions while reflecting on the spiritual week at St. Olaf.
Themes: Call, Experiencing God’s Presence, Vocation, Attention, Openness
Deanna Thompson ’89
Title: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuturonomy for Christians.
Themes: Vocation, Faith & Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history.
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness.
Trish Zimmerman
Title: Associate Professor of Practice in Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zimmerman addresses the philosophy of identity and mutual dependency while reflecting on nature, the pandemic and the reading from Psalm 104
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Well-being, Attention, Openness
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the black people and self, the power of black ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong.”
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Mike Guzman & Kamaya Hart ’22
Title: Chair, Cultural Union for Black Expression
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Guzman reads his grandmother’s journal and emphasizes the importance of food in black culture. Hart shares the value of God heals us, tells stories to us and feeds us to point out the love within the food and the cruciality in American Black culture.
Themes: Value, Anti-Racism, Love, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings.
Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call
Lacy Williams ’21
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Williams addresses her spiritual encounters with St. Olaf College and the reason that St. Olaf is her dream school
Themes: Young Adults, Economics, Well-beings, Call
Nigel Gillespie ’20
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Gillespie addresses his infinitive intention to be baptized.
Themes: Values, Young Adults, Call, Vocation
Marina Fomgbami ’21
Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fomgbami addresses the inequalities in the medical field for black women and her willingness to break the general unfriendly stereotype to nurses for the common good.
Themes: Call, Young Adults, Anti-Racism, Values, Faith
Marvellous John ’21
Hometown: Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: John addresses her relationship with God through the Bible as a tool.
Themes: Values, Faith, Young Adult, Call, Attention
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation.
Jiayun Hao ’19
Hometown: Bigfork, Montana
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hao addresses her envision of her being at different career paths.
Themes: Call, Young Adults
Bridget Olsen ’18 & Maren Miller ’18
Hometown: Woodbury, Minnesota & Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Olson and Miller address the importance of faith while reflecting on her story with cancer.
Annotation:
Themes: Faith, Call, Vocation, Well-being, Young Adults
Regina Hassanally
Title: Bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hassanally addresses Trust the Space and Live in the Presence.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Value, Faith, Call
Kristine Carlson ’74
Title: Retired ELCA Pastor
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Carlson addresses her call from the church, unknown with the self through reflecting on the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke.
Themes: Call, Vocation, Faith, Value, Inspiration
Inger Hanson
Title: Senior Pastor, Bethel Lutheran Church
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hanson addresses love while reflecting on Disney films and Corinth.
Themes: Vocation, Call, Love, Value
L. DeAne Lagerquist
Title: Harold Ditmanson Distinguished Professor of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Lagerquist addresses the importance of thinking about vocation, personal purpose and responsibility while reflecting on the readings from Luke.
Themes: Vocation, Call, Attention
Anant Rambachan
Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rambachan addresses the inclusivity of interreligious faiths, Spiritual Wisdom and the appreciation to learn about other religions while reflecting on the spiritual week at St. Olaf.
Themes: Call, Experiencing God’s Presence, Vocation, Attention, Openness
David R. Anderson ’74
Title: President of the College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Anderson addresses the joy and wonder of Babylonian to God, the loving kindness
Themes: Love, Experiencing God’s presence, vocation, Call, Faith
Charlene Cox
Title: Program Director for Congregational Thriving, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Cox addresses the courage to hope, to thanks, god made you, thanks you, keeps you
Themes: Experience God’s presence, Vocation, Love, Faith & Value, Call
Deanna Thompson ’89
Title: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuturonomy for Christians.
Themes: Vocation, Faith & Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history.
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Daniel Lane ’22
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lane discusses the philosophical meaning behind light and dark based on religious texts. Theme: Values, Young Adults, Openness, Attention, Digital media.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Seng Lor ’23
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lor introduced the history of Hmong people (an ethnicity of Southeast Asia) through his understanding of the two poems. Themes: Faith, Attention, Longing of Home, Love, Woundedness, Anti- Racism, Economics, Young Adults, Value, Social Justice.
Marvellous John ’21
Hometown: Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: John addresses her relationship with God through the Bible as a tool.
Themes: Values, Faith, Young Adult, Call, Attention
Jack Buendorf ’21
Hometown: Albert Lea, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Buendorf addresses Farm Wisdom and Perseverance while reflecting on his interactions with the work on the farm.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Young Adult
Olaf Morkeberg ’21
Hometown: Jordan, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Morkeberg addresses Peace and Harmony while reflecting on his experiences of chakra meditation.
Themes: Value, Vocation, Faith, Love, Young Adult, Attention, Well-being
Sarah Golemon-Mercer ’20
Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Golemon-Mercer addresses relational love, self love and love on justice, how love as centered egos, identity while reflecting the hurt self.
Themes: Young Adult, Value, Faith, Love, Community, Vocation, Well-being, Attention
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2.
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation
Regina Hassanally
Title: Bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hassanally addresses Trust the Space and Live in the Presence.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Value, Faith, Call
L. DeAne Lagerquist
Title: Harold Ditmanson Distinguished Professor of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Lagerquist addresses the importance of thinking about vocation, personal purpose and responsibility while reflecting on the readings from Luke.
Themes: Vocation, Call, Attention
Anant Rambachan
Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rambachan addresses the inclusivity of interreligious faiths, Spiritual Wisdom and the appreciation to learn about other religions while reflecting on the spiritual week at St. Olaf.
Themes: Call, Experiencing God’s Presence, Vocation, Attention, Openness
Trish Zimmerman
Title: Associate Professor of Practice in Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zimmerman addresses the philosophy of identity and mutual dependency while reflecting on nature, the pandemic and the reading from Psalm 104.
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Well-being, Attention, Openness
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the black people and self, the power of black ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong.”
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Deanna Thompson ’89
Title: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuteronomy for Christians
Themes: Vocation, Faith & Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness
Emmanuel Bioh ’22
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bioh addresses Black femininity, love, and beauty, while reflecting upon personal collegiate experiences.
Themes: well-being, identity, values, love, woundedness, beauty, God, Young Adults
Hannah Wangen ’22
Hometown: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Wagen addresses love, gratitude and holy spirit while reflecting on her connection with the church and personal stories. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Values, Openness, Experiencing God’s Presence, love.
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Hannah Niederman ’23
Hometown: Skokie, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Niederman addresses the spiritual healing process from Torah – encounter new days with new eyes. Themes: Young Adults, Experience God’s Presence, Value, Faith, Identity.
Anant Rambachan
Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rambachan addresses the inclusivity of interreligious faiths, Spiritual Wisdom and the appreciation to learn about other religions while reflecting on the spiritual week at St. Olaf.
Themes: Call, Experiencing God’s Presence, Vocation, Attention, Openness
David R. Anderson ’74
Title: President of the College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Anderson addresses the joy and wonder of Babylonian to God, the loving kindness.
Themes: Love, Experiencing God’s presence, vocation, Call, Faith
Katherine Fick
Title: Associate College Pastor
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fick addresses to embrace and love the mystery.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Vocation, Vocation, Values, love
Timothy Rainey II
Title: Assistant Professor of Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rainey II addresses How to live in the Presence with love, civil rights, truth and human mind while reflecting on Martin Luther King’s life and black history in the U.S.
Themes: Love, Presence, faith, Vocation
Charlene Cox
Title: Program Director for Congregational Thriving, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Cox addresses the courage to hope, to thanks, God made you, thanks you, keeps you.
Themes: Experience God’s presence, Vocation, Love, Faith & Value, Call
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Other St. Olaf Chapel Talks
“Life’s Work Well Done” by Tim Green aka atoach is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Mike Guzman & Kamaya Hart ’22
Position: Chair, Cultural Union for Black Expression
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Guzman reads his grandmother’s journal and emphasizes the importance of food in black culture. Hart shares the value of God heals us, tells stories to us and feeds us to point out the love within the food and the cruciality in American Black culture. Themes: Value, Anti-Racism, Love, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Seng Lor ’23
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lor introduced the history of Hmong people (an ethnicity of Southeast Asia) through his understanding of the two poems. Themes: Faith, Attention, Longing of Home, Love, Woundedness, Anti- Racism, Economics, Young Adults, Value, Social Justice.
Marina Fomgbami ’21
Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fomgbami addresses the inequalities in the medical field for black women and her willingness to break the general unfriendly stereotype to nurses for the common good.
Themes: Call, Young Adults, Anti-Racism, Values, Faith
Deanna Thompson ’89
Hometown: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuteronomy for Christians.
Themes: Vocation, Faith & Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the black people and self, the power of black ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong.”
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Daniel Lane ’22
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lane discusses the philosophical meaning behind light and dark based on religious texts. Theme: Values, Young Adults, Openness, Attention, Digital media.
Sarah Zaepfel ’20
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zaepfel addresses her exploration of her connection with different churches and identities and understands “It’s you, God likes.”
Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Digital Media, Values
Seng Lor ’23
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lor introduced the history of Hmong people (an ethnicity of Southeast Asia) through his understanding of the two poems. Themes: Faith, Attention, Longing of Home, Love, Woundedness, Anti- Racism, Economics, Young Adults, Value, Social Justice.
Lacy Williams ’21
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Williams addresses her spiritual encounters with St. Olaf College and the reason that St. Olaf is her dream school.
Themes: Young Adults, Economics, Well-beings, Call
Hannah Wangen ’22
Hometown: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Wagen addresses love, gratitude and holy spirit while reflecting on her connection with the church and personal stories. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Values, Openness, Experiencing God’s Presence, love.
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Evan Strong ’22
Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Strong addresses a way of finding harmony among repelled identities through sharing his understanding on controversial identities of Quantum Physics, Homosexuality and Christianity. Themes: Openness, Values, Young Adults, Woundedness, Vocation, Identity, Faith, Love.
Mike Guzman & Kamaya Hart ’22
Position: Chair, Cultural Union for Black Expression
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Guzman reads his grandmother’s journal and emphasizes the importance of food in black culture. Hart shares the value of God heals us, tells stories to us and feeds us to point out the love within the food and the cruciality in American Black culture. Themes: Value, Anti-Racism, Love, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Sarah Zaepfel ’20
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zaepfel addresses her exploration of her connection with different churches and identities and understands “It’s you, God likes.”
Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Digital Media, Values
Nigel Gillespie ’20
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Gillespie addresses his infinitive intention to be baptized.
Themes: Values, Young Adults, Call, Vocation
Jack Buendorf ’21
Hometown: Albert Lea, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Buendorf addresses Farm Wisdom and Perseverance while reflecting on his interactions with the work on the farm.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Young Adult
Bobby Isbell ’21
Hometown: Medina, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: sbell addresses examinations of the meanings of love while reflecting on his favorite story from the Bible.
Themes: Young Adult, Vocation
Olaf Morkeberg ’21
Hometown: Jordan, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Morkeberg addresses Peace and Harmony while reflecting on his experiences of chakra meditation
Themes: Value, Vocation, Young Adult, Attention, Well-being
Sarah Golemon-Mercer ’20
Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Golemon-Mercer addresses relational love, self love and love on justice, how love as centered egos, identity while reflecting the hurt self.
Themes: Young Adult, Value, Community, Vocation, Well-being, Attention
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2.
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation
Wed Al-Nod ’19
Major: Biology
Recorded Location: Virtual Worship
Annotation: Al-Nod addresses the connections between the global phenomena and Koran while reflecting on the Scientific discoveries.
Themes: Values, Vocation, Young Adults
Bridget Olson ’18 & Maren Miller ’18
Hometown: Woodbury, Minnesota & Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Olson and Miller address the importance of faith while reflecting on her story with cancer.
Themes: Call, Vocation, Well-being, Young Adults
Beverly Wallace
Title: Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wallace addresses Identity, Faith, Value and healthy & honest intimate relationships with one self while reflecting on the story from the Bible.
Themes: Value, Feminine power, Vocation, Well being
Regina Hassanally
Title: Bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hassanally addresses Trust the Space and Live in the Presence.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Value, Call
Kristine Carlson ’74
Title: Retired ELCA Pastor
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Carlson addresses her call from the church, unknown with the self through reflecting on the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke.
Themes: Call, Vocation, Value, Inspiration
Inger Hanson
Hometown: Senior Pastor, Bethel Lutheran Church
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hanson addresses love while reflecting on Disney films and Corinth.
Themes: Vocahttps://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?c=3711tion, Call, Value
L. DeAne Lagerquist
Title: Harold Ditmanson Distinguished Professor of Religion – Boe Memorial Chapel
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Lagerquist addresses the importance of thinking about vocation, personal purpose and responsibility while reflecting on the readings from Luke.
Theme: Vocation, Call, Attention
Anant Rambachan
Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rambachan addresses the inclusivity of interreligious faiths, Spiritual Wisdom and the appreciation to learn about other religions while reflecting on the spiritual week at St. Olaf.
Theme: Call, Experiencing God’s Presence, Vocation, Attention, Openness
Katherine Fick
Title: Associate College Pastor
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fick addresses to embrace and love the mystery.
Theme: Experiencing God’s presence, Vocation, Values
Timothy Rainey II
Title: Assistant Professor of Religion
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Professor Rainey II addresses How to live in the Presence with love, civil rights, truth and human mind while reflecting on Martin Luther King’s life and black history in the U.S.
Theme: Presence, Vocation
David R. Anderson ’74
Title: President of the College
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Anderson addresses the joy and wonder of Babylonian to God, the loving kindness.
Theme: Experiencing God’s presence, vocation, Call
Charlene Cox
Title: Program Director for Congregational Thriving, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Cox addresses the courage to hope, to thanks, God made you, thanks you, keeps you.
Theme: Experience God’s presence, Vocation, Faith & Value, Call
Deanna Thompson ’89
Title: Director, The Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Thompson addresses the choose between life and death, blessings and curses while reflecting on the lament on Jewish slavery from Deuteronomy for Christians.
Theme: Vocation, Faith & Value, Call, Regrets, Openness, Racism
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history.
Theme: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness
Trish Zimmerman
Title: Associate Professor of Practice in Religion
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zimmerman addresses the philosophy of identity and mutual dependency while reflecting on nature, the pandemic and the reading from Psalm 104.
Theme: Vocation, Value & Faith, Well-being, Attention, Openness
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Theme: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Record Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the balck people and self, the power of balck ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong”.
Theme: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Emmanuel Bioh ‘22
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Bioh addresses Black femininity, love, and beauty, while reflecting upon personal collegiate experiences. Themes: well-being, identity, values, love, woundedness, beauty, God.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Lacy Williams ’21
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Williams addresses her spiritual encounters with St. Olaf College and the reason that St. Olaf is her dream school.
Themes: Young Adults, Economics, Well-beings, Call
Sarah Golemon-Mercer ’20
Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Golemon-Mercer addresses relational love, self love and love on justice, how love as centered egos, identity while reflecting the hurt self.
Themes: Young Adult, Value, Faith, Love, Community, Vocation, Well-being, Attention
Bridget Olson ’18 & Maren Miller ’18
Hometown: Woodbury, Minnesota & Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded Location:
Annotation: Olson and Miller address the importance of faith while reflecting on her story with cancer.
Themes: Faith, Call, Vocation, Well-being, Young Adults
Beverly Wallace
Title: Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wallace addresses Identity, Faith, Value and healthy & honest intimate relationships with one self while reflecting on the story from the Bible.
Themes: Faith, Value, Femine power, Vocation, Well being
Shosh Dworsky
Title: Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Dworsky addresses rest and sabbath, how to make a life while reflecting on the Jewish history.
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Regrets, Call, Well-being, Openness
Trish Zimmerman
Title: Associate Professor of Practice in Religion
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zimmerman addresses the philosophy of identity and mutual dependency while reflecting on nature, the pandemic and the reading from Psalm 104.
Themes: Vocation, Value & Faith, Well-being, Attention, Openness
M. Tauseef Akbar
Title: Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Akbar addresses Divine to God, the Impermanence of Life and the importance of finding rest in our heart while reflecting on the Quran.
Themes: Experiencing God’s presence, Love, Value & Faith, Well-being, Call, Attention, Vocation
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Wondemagegnehu addresses the importance of care and love for the black people and self, the power of black ancestors, “We are tough, We are smart, We are strong.”
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Vocation, Nourishment, Anti-Racism, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
Hannah Wangen ’22
Hometown: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Wagen addresses love, gratitude and holy spirit while reflecting on her connection with the church and personal stories. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Values, Openness, Experiencing God’s Presence, love.
Annie Packard ’22
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Packard shares her experiences with God’s presence through telling her wound from her dad passed away. Themes: Vocation, God’s Presence, Young Adults, Woundedness, Love, Values, Call, Well-being.
Daniel Lane ’22
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lane discusses the philosophical meaning behind light and dark based on religious texts. Theme: Values, Young Adults, Openness, Attention, Digital media.
Emmanuel Bioh ‘22
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Bioh addresses Black femininity, love, and beauty, while reflecting upon personal collegiate experiences. Themes: well-being, identity, values, love, woundedness, beauty, God.
Evan Strong ’22
Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Strong addresses a way of finding harmony among repelled identities through sharing his understanding on controversial identities of Quantum Physics, Homosexuality and Christianity. Themes: Openness, Values, Young Adults, Woundedness, Vocation, Identity, Faith, Love.
Mike Guzman & Kamaya Hart ’22
Position: Chair, Cultural Union for Black Expression
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Guzman reads his grandmother’s journal and emphasizes the importance of food in black culture. Hart shares the value of God heals us, tells stories to us and feeds us to point out the love within the food and the cruciality in American Black culture. Themes: Value, Anti-Racism, Love, Young Adults, Call, Vocation.
Logan Combs ’22
Hometown: Haysville, Kansas
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Combs addresses how to stay grounded in the presence from appreciating the body and surroundings. Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Faith and Values, Well-being, Attention, Call.
Will Rand ’22
Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Rand addresses his struggles and spiritual growth with nature during his gap semester. Themes: Well-being, Young Adults, Attention, Vocation, Value, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Max Clifford ’22
Hometown: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Clifford addresses his exploration and acceptance of religious identity and true-self. Themes: Vocation, Faith and Values, Young Adults, Attention, Well-being, Experiencing God’s Presence.
Hannah Niederman ’23
Hometown: Skokie, Illinois
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Niederman addresses the spiritual healing process from Torah – encounter new days with new eyes. Themes: Young Adults, Experience God’s Presence, Value, Faith, Identity.
Seng Lor ’23
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded location: Boe Memorial Chapel.
Annotation: Lor introduced the history of Hmong people (an ethnicity of Southeast Asia) through his understanding of the two poems. Themes: Faith, Attention, Longing of Home, Love, Woundedness, Anti- Racism, Economics, Young Adults, Value, Social Justice.
Sarah Zaepfel ’20
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Zaepfel addresses her exploration of her connection with different churches and identities and understands “It’s you, God likes.”
Themes: Vocation, Young Adults, Digital Media, Values
Lacy Williams ’21
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Williams addresses her spiritual encounters with St. Olaf College and the reason that St. Olaf is her dream school.
Themes: Young Adults, Economics, Well-beings, Call
Nigel Gillespie ’20
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Gillespie addresses his infinitive intention to be baptized.
Themes: Values, Young Adults, Call, Vocation
Marina Fomgbami ’21
Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Fomgbami addresses the inequalities in the medical field for black women and her willingness to break the general unfriendly stereotype to nurses for the common good.
Themes: Call, Young Adults, Anti-Racism, Values, Faith
Marvellous John ’21
Hometown: Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: John addresses her relationship with God through the Bible as a tool.
Themes: Values, Faith, Young Adult, Call, Attention
Jack Buendorf ’21
Hometown: Albert Lea, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Buendorf addresses Farm Wisdom and Perseverance while reflecting on his interactions with the work on the farm.
Themes: Vocation, Attention, Young Adult
Bobby Isbell ’21
Hometown: Medina, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Isbell addresses examinations of the meanings of love while reflecting on his favorite story from the Bible.
Themes: Young Adult, Faith, Vocation
Olaf Morkeberg ’21
Hometown: Jordan, Minnesota
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Morkeberg addresses Peace and Harmony while reflecting on his experiences of chakra meditation.
Themes: Value, Vocation, Faith, Young Adult, Attention, Well-being
Sarah Golemon-Mercer ’20
Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Golemon-Mercer addresses relational love, self love and love on justice, how love as centered egos, identity while reflecting the hurt self.
Themes: Young Adult, Value, Faith, Community, Vocation, Well-being, Attention
George Arbanas ’20
Hometown: Saint Louis, Missouri
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Arbanas addresses how his Orthodox Christian identity interacts with the local Lutheran community.
Themes: Faith, Value, Identity, Young Adults, Openness
Eddie Bryson ’20
Hometown: Cordova, Tennessee
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Bryson addresses his thoughts on his sports team while reflecting on a reading from Nehemiah, Chapters 1&2.
Themes: Value, Identity, Young Adults, Attention, Openness, Call, Vocation
Jiayun Hao ’19
Hometown: Bigfork, Montana
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: Hao addresses her envision of her being at different career paths.
Themes: Call, Young Adults
Wed Al-Nod ’19
Studies: Biology Major
Recorded Location: Virtual Worship
Annotation: Al-Nod addresses the connections between the global phenomena and Koran while reflecting on the Scientific discoveries.
Themes: Values, Vocation, Young Adults
Bridget Olson ’18 & Maren Miller ’18
Hometown: Woodbury, Minnesota & Minneapolis, Minnesota
Recorded Location:
Annotation: Olson and Miller address the importance of faith while reflecting on her story with cancer.
Themes: Faith, Call, Vocation, Well-being, Young Adults
Human Anatomy Program at St.Olaf College
Recorded Location: Boe Memorial Chapel
Annotation: The students from the human anatomy group expressed the huge gratitude to the donors and donors’ family, callings to help more people with care and love.
Themes: Love, Value & Faith, Care, Call, Vocation, Nourishment, Attention, Well-being, Openness
“Who is My Neighbor?”
“Love Your Neighbor As Yourself (Matthew 22:37-39) (EXPLORED)” by Redeemed & Forgiven is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
During the spring of 2022, Dr.Cox partnered with Professor Tegtmeyer-Pak’s immigration and citizenship class. Her class created an amazing project entitled, “Who is My Neighbor?” The link to their project is here.
During the spring of 2023, Dr.Cox partnered with Professor Tegtmeyer-Pak’s immigration and citizenship class. Her class created an amazing project entitled, “Who is My Neighbor?” and the links can be found below.
- Who is My Neighbor? Guides for congregation research by Erica, Grace and Zoe
- Church programming and community organizing by Kai, Matson and Tyler
- Immigrant stories from Illinois by Gretchen, Leo and Suha
- ELL, ESL, and Language Exchange in Immigrants’ Lives by Annika, Laichia and Simon
- Youth programming by Julia, Mauricio and Ruhama