In the second week of December 2018—a month when the average high temperature in Alberta is in the 20s—NALS President Amy Schifrin and I converged on beautiful Edmonton, Alberta, in order to meet with President James Gimbel and the faculty of Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS). Our discussions had to do with a potential arrangement between […]
Ambridge, Pennsylvania: The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) Executive Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, to call the Rev. Dr. Eric Riesen to serve as the next president of the North American Lutheran Seminary (NALS). The NALS is housed at Trinity School for Ministry, an Anglican seminary headquartered in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where Riesen formerly served on […]
The North American Lutheran Seminary will continue the search for its next president after a brief break. Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, chair of the NALS Board of Regents, says, “The Presidential Search process has been suspended until after the North American Lutheran Church Convocation in August. We hope to conclude the process shortly after this […]