{"id":24903,"date":"2020-11-13T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion\/?p=24903"},"modified":"2022-10-04T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:00:54","slug":"augsburg-lstc-partner-for-5-year-ministry-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/2020\/11\/13\/augsburg-lstc-partner-for-5-year-ministry-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg &amp; LSTC Partner for 5 Year Ministry Pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) and Â̲èÖ±²¥ in Minneapolis, Minn., are partnering on a five-year BA\/MDiv degree called the Public Church Scholars. Students in this program will complete two degrees in five years: a bachelor of arts in Theology and Public Leadership from Augsburg and a master of divinity from LSTC. This pilot program is supported by a grant focused on increasing the opportunities for students to study pastoral leadership in the church.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Kalina, an Augsburg 2016 Youth &amp; Family Ministry graduate, is now an MDiv student at LSTC in her pastoral internship year. She says that &#8220;both Augsburg and LSTC form leaders who make a difference inside and outside the walls of the church by being deeply rooted in their communities. From attending Augsburg as an undergrad and LSTC as a graduate student, I feel that I have been equipped for ministry that is deeply relational, grounded in the gospel, and geared toward making a difference in the lives of people and the world God made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you know a young person called to ministry? If so, nominate them today!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Public Church Scholars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLksZfJErEY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) and Â̲èÖ±²¥ in Minneapolis, Minn., are partnering on a five-year BA\/MDiv degree called the Public Church Scholars. Students in this program will complete two degrees in five years: a bachelor of arts in Theology and Public Leadership from Augsburg and a master of divinity from LSTC. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-church-scholars","category-tpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25046,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903\/revisions\/25046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/religion-and-philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}