UPDATE: The book group is now full, and there are no more free books available.

In connection to the September 20 , faculty and staff are invited to participate in a book group discussion of America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis. The group will be co-led by Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation, and David Hamilton, Director of Operations and Global Inclusion, CGEE.

The Book Group will meet for brown bag lunch discussion in the Riverside Room from 11:30am-12:30pm on Sept. 7 and Sept. 28.

To receive a free copy of the book, please be sure the dates work for your schedule. Sign up by emailing ccv@augsburg.edu. Once registered, you may pick up the book in Oren Gateway 106.

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Presentation by Pastor Sonja Hagander and Marty Stortz, Professor of Religion

Wednesday, November 11, 12:15-1:15 pm,

Find out how Augsburg’s origins as a seminary in a specific Christian tradition lay the foundations for a rich appreciation of religious and non-religious diversity. All faculty and staff are invited to this next session in the New Faculty Orientation Series brought to you by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Christensen Center for Vocation.

All are welcome to this brown bag session in the Campus Ministry Seminar Room (Foss 110) – bring your lunch and join us!

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At our recent winter meeting we solicited names of movies and books that come highly recommended by the members of the Board.  Here is the list:

Melissa Pohlman:
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland

John Snider:
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi by Richard Rohr

Mark Hanson:
Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism  by Jerusha Tanner-Lamptey
A Strange Glory: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh

Marty Stortz:
(2005) at Kenyon College
Christoph Schwoebel’s article “Talking Over the Fence.  From Toleration to Dialogue” (for John Clayton on his 60th Birthday), in: NZSTh 45 (2003), 115-130.

Sonja Hagander:
The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Diane Jacobson:
The film “— suggested given disagreements about immigration.

Jack Fortin:
Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass

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 Gracia Grindal, ’65, professor of rhetoric at Luther Seminary, Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium keynote address on Oct. 2, 2010

from the spring 2010 issue of Till & Keep journal.

Blog – The Progress of Pilgrimage

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Chapel Talks

Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation
February 6, 2014

Paul C. Pribbenow, President
December 3, 2013

Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation
November 20, 2013

Mark Tranvik, Director of Christensen Center for Vocation
September 18, 2013

Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation
September 19, 2012

Garry Hesser, Sabo Professor of Citizenship and Learning, Sociology and Urban Studies Department
January 24, 2011

Mark Engebretson, Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences
February 9, 2011

Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation
February 10, 2011

Other Writings on Vocation

First Word: Board of Regents, Augsburg College, October 11, 2014

Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation

Mark Tranvik, Director, Christensen Center for Vocation

Remarks by Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation, from her Inauguration (all are PDFs):

Videos on Vocation

, video narrative project by the Collegeville Institute

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Her timely reflection is available electronically –

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The Collegeville Institute has created a helpful video resource for personal and/or small group reflections. “Vocation is the story of our lives: how God calls and how we respond. Lives Explored is a video narrative project started in 2012 to capture stories of vocation from participants in the and programs.”

View the  and enjoy these everyday examples of vocation in people’s life and work.

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Martha E. Stortz, Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation, gave the keynote address at the event.

Her message includes several Big Questions for reflection, and is available electronically – 

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