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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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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016
35 min
Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016
20 min
Mary Ann Oyler of Oyler’s Organic Farms and Market discusses the process of converting a 6th generation family fruit farm into an organic farm. She explains the motivations and challenges of organic farming. Mary Ann also details the day to day operations that make an organic farm different from a traditional non-organic farm.
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016
25 min
Former Gettysburg Seminary student Ivan Belanji discusses the Lutheran church in Serbia and Slovakia, and describes his study at the seminary in Bratislava.
May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016
28 min
In this episode Mark Mummert takes us behind the scenes of the creation of Evangelical Lutheran Worship, explaining why certain decisions were made [The Lord’s Prayer! The hymns! The Psalter!], and how ELW serves as a window onto who we are as a church today, past, present and future, both locally and globally.
May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016
37 min
Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016
26 min
When it comes to poet/priests, R.S. Thomas is about as good as it gets. This Seminary Explores conversation includes insight into his relevance and the brilliant tensions in his work by John McEllhenney, author of A Masterwork of Doubting Belief: R.S. Thomas and His Poetry.
For more information on the R.S. Thomas Literary Festival visit: http://www.st-hywyn.org.uk/rst.html
Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016
24 min
In this episode, Pastor Karoliina Nikula discusses the larger field of Bio-Ethics, using the specific example of cochlear implants in Finland.
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016
19 min
Dr. Robert Randolph, the 2015 minister-in-residence at Gettysburg Seminary spent a week on campus this fall. He is an award-winning poet, pastor of a Presbyterian church and Chair of the English and Foreign Languages Department at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, PA.
For more information on his publications visit: http://elixirpress.com/
Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016
32 min
In this episode, a part of our ongoing series about Science for Seminaries, geneticist Dr. Jennifer Powell describes her work and the importance of genetics for understanding life.
Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016
43 min
Astrophysicist Dr. Craig Foltz makes physics come alive in this engaging discussion of the origins of time, how telescopes work, and what it all means for our knowledge of the world and ourselves.