Intersections

Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities
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Exploring faith, learning, and the vocation of Lutheran Education. The Intersections Podcast brings the Intersections publication to a new format, turning Issues in Seasons and Articles into Episodes!

  1. Jun 22

    VLHE—Wednesday Morning Sacred Pause

    Rosendale draws on Esther 4:14 and the Lutheran practice of holding death and resurrection together — with “and” as the hardest word — to argue that the calling of Lutheran higher education for “just such a time as this” requires us to remember and name out loud that ours are places where God is at work.

  2. Jun 22

    Fostering Moral Imagination and Inclusivity: The Role of Ethical Leadership in ELCA Colleges and Universities Amid Societal Challenges

    Wells argues that “moral imagination” — the capacity to envision ethical alternatives, empathize across difference, and respond creatively to injustice — is the heart of ethical leadership in NECU institutions, and that anchoring leadership in this principle positions Lutheran higher education to cultivate socially responsible citizens.

  3. Jun 22

    What Does Ethical Leadership in a Changing World Require?

    Frugé argues that ethical leadership in a changing — perhaps ending — world means cultivating trustworthy communities through patient, co-created relationship work, drawing on her experience stewarding the writing community behind Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults.

  4. Jun 22

    What is Required of You?: Higher Education Leadership in a Moral Key

    Drawing on Micah 6:8 and Stephen Carter’s “etiquette of democracy,” Pribbenow describes the three things Augsburg requires of every incoming student — show up, pay attention, and do the work — as a democratic social ethic that prepares students for engaged citizenship in a fractured public life.

  5. Jun 22

    Ethical Leadership for a Changing World: A Shared Calling from Cradle to Career

    Hooper and Newman recount how an ELCA Barna survey on early childhood education sparked the realization at VLHE 2025 that ELCA colleges and the 1,200 Lutheran schools and early learning centers share identical challenges — and an untapped potential to form ethical leaders across the full educational continuum from cradle to career.

  6. Jun 22

    Ethical Leadership: Rooted, Open, Generative, and Mindful

    As he prepares to teach an Ethical Leadership First Year Seminar at California Lutheran, Nunes organizes his pedagogy around three mutually-reinforcing “turns” — inward, outward, and intellectual — grounded in Luther’s mandatum dei and larvae dei, Bonhoeffer’s estates, and Howard Thurman’s call to hear “the sound of the genuine” in oneself.

  7. Jun 22

    Building a Third Space in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Dr. Walter Earl Fluker

    Prompted by AI chatbots being marketed to students as a safer alternative to messy human relationships, Kubek interviews Fluker on how Howard Thurman’s vision of common consciousness, somaesthetics, and nature-rooted learning offers educators a “third space” alternative to AI’s hall of mirrors.

  8. Jun 22

    Wake Up Running! A Call to Ethical Leaders in Quest of Democratic Space

    Abridged from his VLHE keynote, Fluker draws on Habakkuk and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower to call a new generation of ethical leaders to “wake up running” toward democratic futures, packing their runaway bags with love-filled-justice, grace-filled-empathy, and hope-filled-resiliency for the soul-filled work the moment requires.

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Exploring faith, learning, and the vocation of Lutheran Education. The Intersections Podcast brings the Intersections publication to a new format, turning Issues in Seasons and Articles into Episodes!

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  • Creator
    Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Intersections