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An exploration of church and society produced by the United Lutheran Seminary with campuses in Gettysburg and Philadelphia, PA.
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Gettysburg: The Quest for Meaning
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Dr. Leonard Hummel, Co-editor of Gettysburg: The Quest for Meaning, discusses the new book, published by Seminary Ridge Press and its purpose: to examine religion and the Civil War, including the Bible and slavery, ghost tours and pilgrims, the “lost cause” of the Confederacy, forgetting and remembering why it started, and how all this informs our search for a just and equitable America.
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Museums: Closets for America’s Keepsakes
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Dr. Christianson asks Dr. Daryl Black, new President and Executive Director of the Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum, the question, “Why do we have museums and should they do more than just collect “keepsakes”? Dr. Black describes the change in museums over the past two decades from emphasizing a collection of items, e.g. rifles, to interpretation of these items in the wider context of the need for human beings to make meaning of the past. He illustrates this with the conflicting ways North and South used the Bible and even viewed God in the Civil War.
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Rediscovering a Great Woman Author, Elsie Singmaster
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Dr, Christianson and Sue Hill discuss the life and writing of Elsie Singmaster. Elsie Singmaster was one of the best-known authors of her day, appearing in anthologies along with Ernest Hemingway. Her stories of Gettysburg citizens who were caught in the battle and still managed to serve the wounded and dying are worth discovering again.
Monday Nov 24, 2014
Measuring the Costs of War in Human Relationships
Monday Nov 24, 2014
Monday Nov 24, 2014
Monday Oct 27, 2014
The Public Defender as Office and Ministry
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Monday Oct 27, 2014
Recorded before a live audience at St. James Lutheran Church in Gettysburg PA, Dr. Christianson disusses with Kristin Rice how her office is a ministry as well as an essential public service, balancing justice with a fair trial and compassion. Publically financed defenders were established as late as the 1963 when the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guarantees legal counsel to poor defendants in criminal cases. She believes that the next frontier in her field must be the improvement of mental health services, and she continues her opposition to the death penalty.
Monday Sep 15, 2014
Making Aging an Adventure
Monday Sep 15, 2014
Monday Sep 15, 2014
Dr. Christianson talks to Stephen Niebler, Executive Director, Adams County Council for Aging about important issues around aging. How to avoid family conflicts over the right to die as in the cases of Casey Kasem or Terri Schiavo. What to do when you suspect abuse of an older person-- financial, physical, or emotional. The most important local issues that impact on the aging: transportation, housing, trying to understand complicated forms—in health, banking, Social Security, etc.
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Community Gardening
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Dr. Largen talks to Sara Gyson about her involvement with the community garden on the Gettysburg Seminary campus, and the ways in which a garden can foster a church’s mission in the world, and also strengthen Christian discipleship in ways large and small.
Monday May 26, 2014
What We Should Know about Nicaragua
Monday May 26, 2014
Monday May 26, 2014
Dr. Christianson interviews Greg Bowles the On-Site Director of Project Gettysburg-Leon in Leon, Nicaragua. They talk about how Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere next to Haiti, is attempting to address issues of poverty, hunger, and land management. The government is leading the way by making more animals available for farmers. Programs like Project Gettysburg-Leon are working to train local agricultural extension teams, as well as develop health, education, and art centers.
Monday Dec 09, 2013
Historical Artist Dale Gallon
Monday Dec 09, 2013
Monday Dec 09, 2013
Dr. Christianson talks to Historical Artist Dale Gallon from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania about the challenges of historically accurate painting as well as his ten painting commission for the Seminary Ridge Museum in Gettysburg.
Monday Oct 28, 2013
What is special about the new Seminary Ridge Museum?
Monday Oct 28, 2013
Monday Oct 28, 2013
Host Dr. Gerald Christianson talks with Barbara Franco, the Executive Director of the new Seminary Ridge Museum located atop Seminary Ridge in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The new museum explores the topics of:
- the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg
- the care of the wounded and human suffering that took place within Schmucker Hall during its use as a field hospital
- faith and freedom and the moral, civic and spiritual debates of the Civil War era