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Welcoming Statement
LSTC strives to offer a community and academic experience that is grounded in the good news of the gospel and shaped by our urban, multicultural, ecumenical, global,
interfaith and university-related context and commitments.
Our primary mission is to prepare women and men for a complex, pluralistic world in need of faithful and courageous ministers to serve in a variety of contexts.
Although a large percentage of students come to LSTC to prepare for ordained or lay rostered ministries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, LSTC is also
enriched and transformed by ecumenical and interfaith students in our various master's and doctoral programs, as well as ecumenical and interfaith colleagues.
As a Reconciling in Christ seminary, LSTC seeks to offer hospitality and welcome to all who enter LSTC's academic programs. Following Jesus Christ, whose reconciling
love bridged barriers and made strangers friends, we seek to welcome and learn from one another's particularity-including but not limited to one another's race, national
or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical ability, social status and theological diversity.
LSTC is always becoming a reconciling community. Reconciliation is an ongoing activity and effort that we do together.
On May 15, 2012, the board of directors voted to make LSTC a Reconciling in Christ seminary.
