Episodes
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Season 1 · Episode 10
Fragmented in Faith: The Concerns and Hopes Found in Student Spirituality and Civic Engagement
11 min
Two Texas Lutheran University students reflect on the cyclical pattern of low spiritual and civic engagement on their campus and argue that distinguishing Lutheran values from Lutheran practice could open space for civic engagement to becom...
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Season 1 · Episode 9
Civic Engagement, "Baylor In Deeds," and Engaged Learning
6 min
Flavin describes how Baylor’s strategic plan “Baylor in Deeds” and its Office of Engaged Learning are building civic engagement into the Arts & Sciences core curriculum, with early Global Engagement Survey data showing gains in civic effica...
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Season 1 · Episode 8
Bringing Core Values to Life through Civic Engagement
5 min
Trantham shows how Saint Leo University’s Benedictine Core Values shape his civic engagement work — from advising a “Why Vote?” campaign and Constitution Day panels to engaging students in the Unify Challenge for respectful cross-institutio...
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Season 1 · Episode 7
An Ecosystem of Democracy
6 min
Thomason argues that faith-based institutions should equip students not to dominate the public sphere with their convictions but to cultivate an “ecosystem of democracy” — pursuing universal values with virtue and tolerance while acknowledg...
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Season 1 · Episode 6
Community-Based Research as Engaged Citizenship
6 min
Old argues that genuine citizenship requires more than charitable gestures — it demands long-term, reciprocal community partnerships — and describes how Valparaiso’s Community Research and Service Center embodies that vision even amid the f...
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Season 1 · Episode 5
Teaching and Mentoring in Service of Civic Engagement
6 min
Hoang describes how her teaching, mentoring, and research at California Lutheran University — including a multi-year collaboration with the Lutheran Office of Public Policy on Lutheran Lobby Day — cultivate civic skills grounded in ELCA soc...
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Season 1 · Episode 4
Leaning-In to the Civic Lessons of Our Namesakes
15 min
Mathews-Schultz uses the civic legacy of the Muhlenberg family — from General Pete’s Revolutionary call to action to President Muhlenberg’s inaugural address on the “education of conscience” — to invite students at Muhlenberg College into a...
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Season 1 · Episode 3
Civic Engagement and Faith Perspectives
15 min
Guest editor William O’Brochta introduces the section by overviewing the ELCA’s call to civic engagement, recapping the Fall 2025 Civic Engagement and Faith Perspectives conference at Texas Lutheran University, and previewing the participan...
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Season 1 · Episode 2
I am a Treaty Partner
7 min
A recent California Lutheran graduate reflects on how a course on Indigenous Rights and Practices, and a conversation with a former Chairman of the Lummi Nation, led her to claim a “treaty partner” identity and to challenge readers to learn...
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Season 1 · Episode 1
From the Publisher and Editor
6 min
Wells and Windham-Hughes frame vocation as “ground game” — the practical, public living-out of faith through civic engagement — and introduce the issue’s focus on how Lutheran higher education equips students to repair the world.