Tag: Legacy

A word on my (double) alma mater’s closure, Multnomah University (Bible College) and Multnomah Biblical Seminary. It was announced almost two years ago that Multnomah University would be “merging” with another Christian University (albeit a genuinely Christian liberal arts university), Jessup University, located in Rocklin, CA (a suburb of Roseville and Sacramento, CA, respectively). It was sold to the alumni, and students, and faculty and staff, as if Multnomah would continue on as an institution; albeit, under the aegis and funding of Jessup University. Or at least this is one way it left itself open to be interpreted (and it…

The following is shared from the Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania (LAMPa) newsletter for Wednesday, April 9, 2025.  Commemorating Bonhoeffer, Living into his Legacy Today, April 9, marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor-theologian who resisted the Nazi regime and was executed at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp just weeks before the end of WWII.   Over the past year Lutherans, advocates, and those committed to justice on behalf of their neighbor have been steeped in the legacy of Bonhoeffer and the lessons his theology and life have to offer us as disciples also working at…