Lutheran Historical Conference meets here Oct. 11-14

The Lutheran Historical Conference will hold its 24th biennial meeting on the campus of Wagner College, a historically Lutheran institution of higher learning, this coming weekend. The conference begins Saturday afternoon, Oct. 11, and runs through Tuesday morning, Oct. 14. Members of the Wagner College community are welcome to attend as many individual sessions as they like. The theme for this year’s conference is “American Lutherans Engage the World.” For a complete program, go to THIS LINK. All sessions will be held in Spiro Hall, Rm. 4.

Here’s how the conference theme is described in a brochure: “North American Lutherans have maintained many ties to communities outside themselves: through continuing engagement with Lutheran homelands in Europe; through engagement with other religious groups on this continent; and through engagement in mission and ecumenical contacts outside of North America. These forms of engagement might also include the ministries of social service outreach, disaster relief, and work with newer immigrant communities. Papers being prepared for this conference will examine some aspect of North American Lutheran history as it pertains to one or more of these three kinds of engagement. The focus will be on the interaction between North American Lutherans and the wider world, and how these interactions strengthened, challenged, diversified or directed the development of North American Lutheran communities.”

John R. Dagan, archivist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Metropolitan New York Synod, is the coordinator for this year’s Lutheran Historical Conference meeting. Dagan will also be one of the speakers at Wagner College’s Founders Day Convocation, marking the 125th anniversary of the college’s creation, on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Main Hall theater.