Events
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Preaching the Paradox: A Festival of Lutheran Proclamation
United Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg campus 61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, United StatesThis inaugural festival at ULS Gettysburg is an invitation for preachers to step away from the weekly grind and into a week shaped by worship, conversation, and shared reflection on the strange and life-giving work of proclaiming the gospel.
At the heart of the week is daily worship and preaching in the seminary chapel, grounding us again in the paradox we preach: law and gospel, death and resurrection, despair and promise. Alongside worship, the festival will offer practical workshops meant to add tools to the preacher’s kit, exploring topics like faithfully preaching on demons, creation, and centering the sermon within the whole of worship.
Whether you are new to ministry or decades into preaching, this festival is an opportunity to renew imagination, deepen trust in the gospel, and remind us that God is still at work through the spoken word.$500 -
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Register to Vote
Voter registration deadline is October 19, 2026. We are called to conversation and prayer around our role as U.S. residents and as people of faith in ensuring our election systems promote dignity and respect for all. We are called to act by speaking out as advocates and engaging in local efforts to guarantee the
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Request a mail-in or absentee ballot
Request a mail-in or absentee ballot by October 27, 2026 We are called to conversation and prayer around our role as U.S. residents and as people of faith in ensuring our election systems promote dignity and respect for all. We are called to act by speaking out as advocates and engaging in local efforts
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Election Day
We are called to conversation and prayer around our role as U.S. residents and as people of faith in ensuring our election systems promote dignity and respect for all. We are called to act by speaking out as advocates and engaging in local efforts to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens. ELCAvotes is an initiative: expanding the role of the church in encouraging faithful and nonpartisan voter participation by providing faith-based resources around voting providing a framework for all Lutherans to understand and speak out about the intersection of voting and elections and racial, gender and economic justice amplifying the voices of young-adult leaders in the church and providing a platform for young adults to explore what it means to be a civically engaged person of faith engaging with and equipping ethnic communities to talk about voting rights and race and their connection with elections today “[It is] resolved, that members, congregations, and synods of this church be encouraged to “promote public life worthy of the name” by speaking out as an advocate and engaging in local efforts such as voter registration and supporting legislation to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens …”Social Policy Resolution “Voting Rights to All Citizens” adopted Aug. 2013 For more information regarding the importance of voting and civic engagement, please refer to the ELCA social statement on Faith and Civic Life https://www.elca.org/faith/faith-and-society/current-social-writing-projects/civic-life-and-faith and the related social message on Government & Civic Engagement: Discipleship in a Democracy.
