Previous Series

Year Title of Lecture Lecturers

2009 -- Series XIX
Hearing the Word: Lutheran Perspectives on Biblical Interpretation.
Steed Davidson, Mary Hinkle Shore, Esther Menn, Craig Nessan, and  Mark Allen Powell

2008 — Series XVIII
Living Together in the 21st Century: The Lutheran Vocation in World Christianity
Dr. Lamin Sanneh and The Rev. Dr. Wanda Deifelt

2007 — Series XVII
The State of the Bible in North America
The Rev. Dr. Donald Hagner and the Rev. Dr. Donald Senior

2006 — Series XVI
Living Together in the 21st Century: As Lutherans in the ELCA
The Rev. Dr. H. George Anderson, the Rev. Dr. Herbert W. Chilstrom, and the Rev. Mark S. Hanson

2005 — Series XV
Practical Theology in the Life of the Christian
Herbert Anderson and Bonnie Miller-McLemore

2004 — Series XIV
Evangelism Today: Lutheran Theology and Practice
Edgar Krentz and David Tiede

2003 — Series XIII
I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Future of Multicultural America
James Forbes, Robert Franklin, Justo Gonzalez, Dwight Hopkins, Peter Paris, and Emilie Townes

2002 — Series XII
Biblical Preaching in Babel: Preaching in a Post-Christian World
Barbara Lundblad and Peter Gomes

2001 — Series XI
Spiritual But Not Religious: Reaching Lost Generations — Understanding mission among 18-30 year olds
Roland Martinson and Tom Beaudoin

2000 — Series X
Class Matters: Mission Across Unseen Divides
Karen Bloomquist and Tex Sample

1999 — Series IX
Worship in the 21st Century: Both Catholic and Contextually Relevant
Mary Collins and Gordon Lathrop

1998 — Series VIII
The Ethical Challenges of the New Century: How Do Christians Respond?
Jean Bethke Elshtain and Martha Ellen Stortz

1997 — Series VII
Ecumenical Decisions 1997: Implications for Teaching, Witness, and Outreach
Michael Root and Gabriel Fackre

1996 — Series VI
The Church as a Community of God's Possibility
Philip Hefner and Timothy Lull

1995 — Series V
The Bible as the Word of God in a Post-Modern Age
Karlfried Froehlich and Terry Fretheim

1994 — Series IV
God and the Nations
Douglas John Hall and Rosemary Radford Ruether

1993 — Series III
What does our evangelical confessional tradition have to contribute to the evangelization task?
William H Lazareth and Perl Rasolondraibe

1992 — Series II
The Church and Moral Formation Moral Fragments and Moral Community: A Proposal for Church in Society
Larry Rasmussen

1992 — Series I
The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach