28.05.10 - 3D-pictures of the Seminary!

If you have simple red-and-green 3D-spectacles like the ones you get in the cinema to watch stereo movies, you can have a stereo look at the Seminary and its people now here: http://www.photoshare.ru/office/album.php?id=216179

On Tuesday, 25th, the photographer Sergey Nazarov took these and some more pictures on a special 3D-camera with two lenses.

30.04.10 - How we celebrated Holy Week and Easter: Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday is one of those days in the church year that is simply overflowing with possibilities for liturgical creativity. In the past, however, the seminary's teachers and students have taken very small steps towards using those possibilities as to avoid the discomfort caused by the radically new in worship.

22.03.10 - Taking part in the ELC-ER Synod in Moscow

The 17th Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia was held in Moscow from March 17 – 19, 2010. The Theological Seminary in Novosaratovka was represented by our president, Dr. Anton Tikhomirov, and by teacher and translator Dr. Elena Bondarenko. The Synod opened with a conference of ELC-ER deans; the theological topic of discussion was the human soul. Reports on the biblical understanding of the human soul were made; afterwards there was discussion which helped reveal what concepts of soul, death and eternal life are predominant nowadays in our church.