The Seminary Explores

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Listen to an exploration of church and society produced by the United Lutheran Seminary with campuses in Gettysburg and Philadelphia, PA.


Episode Date
Person to Person, Heart to Heart: Lessons from the Church in Denmark
Oct 05, 2026
The Formation, Work, and Hope of a Religious Educator
Sep 21, 2026
The Honduran Running Club: A Healthcare Mission to Honduras
Sep 07, 2026
From Dhaka to Pittsburgh: A Poet’s Journey
Aug 24, 2026
Are You the One?
Aug 10, 2026
Will Herzfeld: A Giant in African American Lutheran Church History
Jun 29, 2026
Pope Leo: Calling Balls and Strikes from the Holy See
Jun 15, 2026
Archives: Preserving the Past and Preparing for the Future
Jun 01, 2026
United Lutheran Seminary: 200 Years of History
Apr 06, 2026
The Top Stories in Religion for 2025
Mar 23, 2026
Reflections on Daniel A. Payne and Gettysburg
Feb 23, 2026
Songs of Liberation, Equality and Kindness
Feb 09, 2026
What is Liberation Theology?
Jan 12, 2026
A Christmas Offering 2025
Dec 15, 2025
On the Appalachian Trail
Oct 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV: A Pope for These Times
Sep 08, 2025
A Rumor of Black Lutherans
Aug 25, 2025
“Say the names our mothers gave us:” poems that power The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington
Aug 11, 2025
A Lifetime of Ministry Engagement
Jun 16, 2025
The Call to Serve: Reflections on a life in Public Ministry
Jun 02, 2025
Reflecting on 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025
Apr 21, 2025
Walking the Way of St. James
Apr 07, 2025
Black Lutheran History Project: The Continuing Story
Dec 16, 2024
A Historical Moment in Black Lutheran History
Dec 02, 2024
Global Partnership: An Encounter with Tanzania
Nov 18, 2024
A Final Resting Place: The Lincoln Cemetery at Gettysburg
Oct 21, 2024
Revisiting Kites over the Mango Tree
Jul 29, 2024
Expanding Neighbors: Engaging with People Across Many Waters
Jul 15, 2024
Top Stories in Religion for 2023
Mar 11, 2024
An American Theologian Teaching in Ghana
Feb 26, 2024
What’s Significant about Chairs and Doors? Building Diagnostic Skills in Physicians
Feb 12, 2024
The Emotional Voltage of Their Lives
Dec 18, 2023
Global Lutheranism: The Lutheran World Federation 2023
Dec 04, 2023
The African American Presence in Gettysburg: The Black History Museum
Nov 20, 2023
Reflections on 50 years of Pastoral Ministry
Nov 06, 2023
Simone de Beauvoir : A Voice That Continues
Aug 14, 2023
The Way of St. James
Jul 31, 2023
Travel in Conflict: Israeli/Palestinian conflict Perspective
Jul 17, 2023
In Remembrance of WWII
Jun 19, 2023
Great Theologians of the 20th Century and Their Influence on the Church Today
May 22, 2023
A Journey in Pastoral Ministry
May 08, 2023
In Search of Family
Apr 24, 2023
Crash: Ann Bracken talks about her new Memoir on Overmedication and Recovery
Apr 11, 2023
What is a Public Defender?
Mar 28, 2023
The Childrens’ View of Gettysburg During the Civil War
Mar 13, 2023
The World of the Church Organist
Feb 27, 2023
A Time to Remember: A tribute to the late Dr. Richard N. Stewart of United Lutheran Seminary
Feb 13, 2023
African American Lutheran Scholars: The Conference of International Black Lutherans
Jan 30, 2023
The Top Stories in Religion 2022
Jan 16, 2023
Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage
Dec 05, 2022
Strong Medicine: The Essential Role of Story in Healthcare
Nov 21, 2022
Nicole Yurcaba: Live from the Diaspora
Oct 24, 2022
Plot-Driven Medicine
Oct 10, 2022
A Pope Retires: What Went Right; What Went Wrong
Apr 11, 2022
The Reflections of an African American Police Chief
Mar 28, 2022
Hospitality, Bravery, and Doonesbury: A Conversation with Rev. Eric Shafer
Mar 14, 2022
A Pivot Point in History: The Situation in the Ukraine
Mar 11, 2022
Educating for Social Justice
Feb 28, 2022
Epiphany and Insurrection: Educational Challenges
Jan 17, 2022
Music for the Advent/Christmas Season
Dec 20, 2021
Grief, Change, Icebergs and a little Northern Exposure
Nov 08, 2021
Christians and Muslims Together
Oct 11, 2021
What Love is About: Hospice Care at the End of Life
Aug 02, 2021
More than Meets the Ear or the Eye
Jun 07, 2021
Christian Education and the Pandemic
May 10, 2021
Churchless Sermons and a Greeting from North Carolina
Mar 29, 2021
Another View of Theology
Mar 15, 2021
Remembering/Embracing: 40 years of the Urban Theological Institute
Mar 01, 2021
To Serve and To Listen
Feb 15, 2021
The Arts are Essential. Thank Goodness for the ACAC
Jan 18, 2021
Top Stories in Religion for 2020
Dec 28, 2020
The Counterintuitive Power of Wonder in a Pandemic
Nov 02, 2020
T1International: The Quest for Insulin Accessibility
Aug 24, 2020
A Time to Say Goodbye: A Christianson Farewell
Jul 27, 2020
Quite a Start: YWCA’s Executive Director Dotty Dalphon
Jul 13, 2020
COVID-19 and the Hospital Chaplain: Spiritual Care During a Pandemic
May 04, 2020
Blackbirding: A Song Cycle After All Your Senses
Apr 20, 2020
War is No Place for Children: A Soldier’s Story
Apr 06, 2020
A Palestinian Woman Navigates the Borderland between Two Cultures
Mar 23, 2020
An Ecumenical Overview
Mar 09, 2020
Bridges, Gaps, Brews and Views: A Path to Interfaith Engagement
Feb 24, 2020
Students Lead the Way to Gun Sense
Feb 10, 2020
Military Chaplains: Service to God and Country
Jan 27, 2020
The Top Stories in Religion 2019
Jan 13, 2020
West Virginia Author and Poet Laureate Marc Harshman
Dec 30, 2019
Madagascar: Bellwether of Our Fragile Planet
Dec 16, 2019
Why Is Ukraine Important?
Dec 05, 2019
Town and Country Church Institute at ULS
Dec 02, 2019
C.A.R.E.S. Cares for a Community’s Homeless
Nov 18, 2019
Ties that Bind: Religion in the “Great Partnership” between Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
Nov 04, 2019
Investigating Afro-Germans and Afro-Russians
Oct 21, 2019
African American Lutheran Clergy: An Oral History
Oct 07, 2019
Poverty: An American Dilemma
Sep 23, 2019
Up Close with Climate Up Close
Sep 09, 2019
Faces of War
Aug 26, 2019
The Long Path to Permanent Coeducation at Gettysburg College
Aug 12, 2019
Observations of the Past and Present: Battlefield Resident Artists’ Reflections
Jul 29, 2019
A Great Way to Begin: Gettysburg Kids Who Did the Impossible
Jul 15, 2019
A President Looks Back and Looks Forward
Jul 01, 2019
Reconciling in Christ: A Personal Story
Jun 17, 2019
Words Matter
Jun 03, 2019
How a Small-Town Newspaper Can Survive and Serve
May 20, 2019
Restoring Health in the World, One Disease at a Time
May 06, 2019
You Can’t Pray the Gay Away
Apr 22, 2019
Fresh Ideas for a New Congress
Apr 08, 2019
Gettysburg’s Underground Community Living Room
Mar 25, 2019
How to Ease Gridlock in Congress
Mar 11, 2019
The Housing Crisis in America
Feb 25, 2019
What is Systematic Theology?
Feb 11, 2019
James McCarthy from Honolulu to Gettysburg
Jan 28, 2019
The United Nations: Working for Peace in Ways We Might Not Know About
Jan 14, 2019
Spectacular Sunset? Look Behind You, too.
Dec 31, 2018
Nicaragua: A Political Crisis on Our Doorstep
Dec 17, 2018
Having Difficult Conversations by First Listening
Dec 03, 2018
Landscape and Presence
Nov 19, 2018
The Importance of Memory, Community and Sandburg’s Cool Tombs
Nov 05, 2018
The Abuse Scandal in the Roman Catholic Church
Oct 22, 2018
Coming to Terms with the Viet Nam War
Oct 08, 2018
The Seminary Explores Podcast at Five Years
Sep 24, 2018
Examining and Reflecting on 9/11
Sep 10, 2018
A New Vision for a Newly Merged Seminary
Aug 28, 2018
The Other Story of Gettysburg: The Underground Railroad and the African American Experience
Aug 13, 2018
Iran: The Prospects for Peace with a Forbidden Country
Jul 29, 2018
A Realist Observes and Connects
Jul 16, 2018
Separating Children to Enforce Immigration Policy
Jul 06, 2018
Where Have All the Good Hymns Gone?
Jul 02, 2018
Suicide, a National Tragedy
Jun 18, 2018
A Journey to the Holy Land
Jun 04, 2018
Flight from Oppression
May 21, 2018
Senior Citizen Living: Issues, Concerns, and Possibilities
May 07, 2018
The Gift of Liturgical Robes
Apr 23, 2018
Common Sense in the Gun Debate
Apr 09, 2018
Access to Medicines and Overcoming the Barriers
Mar 26, 2018
One Journey to the United States: An Immigrant Story
Mar 12, 2018
From the Desert to the Peach Orchard
Feb 26, 2018
The Healing Power of Art
Feb 12, 2018
Building Community Around Sourdough Bread
Jan 29, 2018
On-Site Immediacy and the Continuing Role of Combat Artists
Jan 15, 2018
Signs of Safety
Jan 01, 2018
A Year in the Woods
Dec 19, 2017
Gerrymandering: How to Skew Election Results Without Hardly Trying
Dec 04, 2017
The Theological Librarian and Library
Nov 20, 2017
Years of Service
Nov 06, 2017
Capturing the Colors
Oct 23, 2017
Examining A Summer with Healthcare
Oct 09, 2017
Why a National Health Program Makes Sense to a Family Physician
Sep 25, 2017
“Light Painting” above Ground, Darkroom Experiments Below
Sep 11, 2017
The Debate Surrounding Confederate Monuments
Aug 28, 2017
Refugees and Migrants: The Duty to Welcome
Aug 14, 2017
The Top Layer of the Fold of History is Now
Jul 31, 2017
Here We Stand: Responding to a History of Oppression in S.W. Africa and Congo
Jul 18, 2017
Pittsburgh and Paris: Why Are Persons of Color Attracted to the City of Light?
Jul 03, 2017
Not Waiting for the Hero
Jun 19, 2017
Unfolding Stories
Jun 05, 2017
All that Jazz!
May 22, 2017
Speed Painting, Heraldry and Fantasy
May 08, 2017
Anne Tait on Cemeteries, Anthropology, and Making Things by Hand
Apr 24, 2017
Texting Whitman :-)
Apr 10, 2017
Not Charity, but a Chance
Mar 27, 2017
Urban Ministry, Black Men, and the Lutheran Church
Mar 13, 2017
Real History Meets Virtual Reality
Mar 06, 2017
Literacy, America’s Silent Scandal
Feb 27, 2017
A Painter-Adventurer and the NPAF Founder visit Seminary Ridge
Feb 13, 2017
Taking the Long View: Artist Nick Collier and the Raw Charms of a Gettysburg Winter
Feb 08, 2017
Lutherans and Catholics “On the Way” to Unity
Jan 30, 2017
After Custer’s Defeat: The Fate of Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada
Jan 16, 2017
Top Stories in Religion for 2016
Jan 02, 2017
Ageless Wisdom
Dec 19, 2016
Out of the Depths
Dec 05, 2016
Standing on Hallowed Ground
Dec 02, 2016
Black Lives Matter?
Nov 21, 2016
Laughing and Crying in Silence: A Chaplain’s Story of 9/11
Nov 07, 2016
Happy 100th Birthday to Our National Parks
Oct 24, 2016
The Art and Experience of Wet Plate Photography
Oct 10, 2016
Cancer Trials and Christian Faith: One Expression of a Lutheran Vocation
Sep 26, 2016
Storyboards and Battle Plans: Gettysburg National Military Park Artist-in-Residence Leigh Rydberg
Sep 12, 2016
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravitational Waves—More Fun with Physics with Dr. Craig Foltz
Aug 15, 2016
American Elections: Why Have We Become so Divided?
Aug 08, 2016
Where Michelangelo Stood: Vocation, Incarnation and New Work in an Old Form
Aug 01, 2016
Firefighting and Public Ministry: An Expanded Understanding of Vocation
Jul 18, 2016
Is the Private Practice Physician a Dinosaur?
Jul 11, 2016
“Left Unsaid”: The Secret to the Longevity of our Constitution
Jul 04, 2016
The Fourth of July, the Founding Fathers and the First Peoples of this Country
Jul 04, 2016
Traces: A Gathering Up
Jun 27, 2016
A Conversation with the Early-rising, Prolific Author Gary Fincke
Jun 20, 2016
Inside Organic Farming Today
Jun 13, 2016
The Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia and Slovakia
Jun 06, 2016
The Ins and Outs of ELW, from Someone who was There!
May 23, 2016
How we See: Facial Recognition, Make-up, and Beauty
May 09, 2016
A Masterwork of Doubting Belief: R.S. Thomas and His Poetry
Apr 25, 2016
Health Care Ethics in the Finnish Context
Apr 11, 2016
Staying Amazed – Important for Preachers and Poets
Mar 28, 2016
Genetics, Immunology and Microscopic Worms: The Natural Curiosity of a Scientist
Mar 14, 2016
Looking into the Heavens with an Astrophysicist
Feb 29, 2016
Better Living through Chemistry
Feb 15, 2016
The Kinship of War and Poetry
Feb 01, 2016
The Ten Top Stories in Religion 2015
Jan 18, 2016
Physics: What it is and why it matters (The Big Bang Theory, String Theory, and God)
Jan 04, 2016
Geology, Climate Change & Life Today
Dec 21, 2015
A Youth Extravaganza
Dec 07, 2015
Syria is Serious Business
Dec 04, 2015
The State of Education
Nov 23, 2015
A Time of Transition: Retirement and the Clergy
Nov 09, 2015
The Cost of War: Yugoslavia
Oct 26, 2015
Hand’s–on Social Justice
Oct 12, 2015
Welcoming a new face and a new perspective: Dr. Vince Evener
Sep 28, 2015
Gettysburg: The Quest for Meaning
Sep 21, 2015
New Words, Old War: Artists-in-Residence on the Gettysburg Battlefield
Sep 14, 2015
Talking Science in the Seminary with a Stuempfle
Sep 01, 2015
The Cost of War, Part 2: Children of the Battlfield
Aug 31, 2015
Science for Seminaries
Aug 17, 2015
Encyclical on the Environment from Pope Francis
Aug 03, 2015
Museums: Closets for America’s Keepsakes
Jul 20, 2015
Rediscovering a Great Woman Author, Elsie Singmaster
Jul 06, 2015
What’s the Future of Health Care in America?
Jun 22, 2015
Going Green
Jun 08, 2015
Psalms for Skeptics
May 25, 2015
Re-contextualizing American Lutheranism
May 11, 2015
Secular Religion and Sunday Worship
Apr 27, 2015
Why Poetry Matters for Preachers
Apr 13, 2015
“Race Matters”—Issues of Race, Culture and the Church
Mar 30, 2015
Building Effective Long-term Pastorates
Mar 16, 2015
Are We Getting High on Marijuana?
Mar 02, 2015
What Are They Saying About Friendship?
Feb 16, 2015
Reconciling in Christ, the Purpose and the Process
Feb 02, 2015
Parish Ministry in this Time of Change
Jan 19, 2015
Mr. Lincoln's Religion
Jan 05, 2015
Cultural Changes that Church Leaders Cannot Afford to Miss
Dec 22, 2014
The Conflict in Ukraine
Dec 09, 2014
Unweaving Exile: One Artist’s Response to 9/11
Dec 08, 2014
Measuring the Costs of War in Human Relationships
Nov 24, 2014
A View of the Church in Cameroon, Central Africa
Nov 10, 2014
The Public Defender as Office and Ministry
Oct 27, 2014
Why Lutherans Should Care about and for Creation
Oct 13, 2014
Martin Luther and the Jews
Sep 29, 2014
Making Aging an Adventure
Sep 15, 2014
Lutheran Monasticism: Contradiction in Terms?
Sep 01, 2014
The Conflict in the Middle East: From one who has been there
Aug 27, 2014
Faith Forming Faith: Christian Discipleship in a Post-Christian World
Aug 18, 2014
The Prophetic [Political] Church
Aug 04, 2014
Community Gardening
Jul 21, 2014
What We Should Know about Argentina
Jul 07, 2014
Sin Boldly! The Transforming Power of God's Justification
Jun 23, 2014
Transforming the Church
Jun 09, 2014
What We Should Know about Nicaragua
May 26, 2014
Buddhism and its Appeal in the West
May 12, 2014
From Sri Lanka to Chicago: The Journey of a Buddhist Monk
May 12, 2014
American Apocalyptic
Apr 28, 2014
Eric Shafer Part 2: Our Interreligious World and Media Technologies
Apr 14, 2014
Eric Shafer Part 1: Media and Religion
Apr 14, 2014
From Dublin Bay to Seminary Ridge: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail
Mar 31, 2014
The Role of the Liberal Arts College in Contemporary Society
Mar 17, 2014
Equality for Women
Mar 03, 2014
Ecotheology in Indonesia
Feb 17, 2014
The Work and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feb 03, 2014
Apocalyptic in the New Testament
Jan 21, 2014
The 10 Top Stories in Religion for 2013
Jan 10, 2014
Christmas: Where It All Began
Dec 23, 2013
Historical Artist Dale Gallon
Dec 09, 2013
The Work of a Systematic Theologian
Nov 25, 2013
The Issues and Challenges for the Church in Northern Germany
Nov 11, 2013
What is special about the new Seminary Ridge Museum?
Oct 28, 2013
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Oct 16, 2013
The Sustainability of Seminary Education
Oct 04, 2013