Pan-Lutheran Cocktail Hour

This reception, with a cash bar and light refreshments, is an opportunity for Lutheran academics, regardless of Synodical affiliation to discuss values, ideas, and hopes we all hold in common. This year's topic will be Lutheran responses to the crisis in American Higher Education. Many colleges (Lutheran and otherwise) have seen liberal arts departments especially in the humanities reduced or closed this year. Other colleges have simply closed. In addition, there has been the 'FAFSA debacle', campus protests and difficult discussions of freedom of speech, ans well as daily news articles suggesting College isn't worth it or doesn't work. This will be an opportunity for an open discussion of how Luther's admonition to "keep children in school" relates to our duties to our neighbor through the Academy in this moment of time.