Tag: religion

  • Blake Couey, 2025-26 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award Winner

    Blake Couey, 2025-26 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award Winner

    Blake Couey (Religion) was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award. This award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished scholarly achievements.

  • Sarah Ruble, 2025-26 Faculty Service Award Winner

    Sarah Ruble, 2025-26 Faculty Service Award Winner

    Sarah Ruble (Religion) was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished service activities.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

    Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

    Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Can a City Menstruate? The Personification of Jerusalem in Lamentations 1” at the Upper Midwest American Academy of Religion Meeting on April 11 in St. Paul.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) published a chapter titled “Lutheran Commitments to Children and Child Well-being: Theological Foundations and Contemporary Challenges” in the recently published volume Here We Stand: A Lutheran Response to Child Abuse, co-edited by Craig L. Nessan and Victor I. Vieth (Pickwick Publications), pp. 3–27. She was also invited to present her work at a…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) has published a chapter titled “Honoring the Full Humanity of Children: Lessons from Robust Theologies of Childhood for Child Protection and Wellbeing” in The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion—Protection—Rights, co-edited by Myriam Wijlens and Yeshica Marianne Umaña Calderón (LIT Verlag). The volume brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and regions of the world.…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia Bunge (Religion) was the inaugural speaker for the new Bi-annual Berryman Lecture Series hosted by the international Center for the Theology of Childhood and made possible by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The online lecture was entitled “Honoring Children’s Full Humanity: Jerome Berryman’s Sacred Gift, Our Shared Calling” and attracted participants from North and South…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the Lilly Endowment to give a presentation at its national gathering of representatives from 295 Lilly-funded projects focused on children, parents, and caregivers held in Indianapolis. Bunge presented a talk entitled “Child-Attentive Theologies: Honoring Children’s Full Humanity, Empowering Ministries” based on insights from her book, Child Theologies: Diverse…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia Bunge (Religion) traveled to Tanzania to attend the retirement of Rev. Sarah Mwanga Mkanza and to bring greetings from the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the ELCA’s Presiding Bishop. Bunge met seven Tanzanians who had graduated from ELCA colleges and universities, including Walter Maeda ’78. She also visited with…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke & Blake Couey

    Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke & Blake Couey

    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) and Blake Couey (Religion) gave presentations as part of a panel entitled “Meat: Eating and Being Eaten,” at the annual joint meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, held this year at Oregon State University.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was at Duke University for a meeting of the North American Forum for Luther Research. She presented a paper on the misuse and weaponization of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by the religious right and Christian nationalists today. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was executed on orders from Hitler at…