Dr. Courtney Wilder is Professor of Religion at Midland University, an ELCA-affiliated university located in Fremont, Nebraska. Her research interests include Christianity and popular culture, disability theology, and food ethics. She has two young adult children and lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her partner.
Gardening in the Time of Genocide
December 2024/January 2025: Vocation in Turbulent Times (Volume 24 Issue 6)
The seeds: [1] Martin Luther is often quoted as saying something like, “If I knew the world were ending tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today.” Luther didn’t say or write that,[i] but it is a variant of a longstanding saying in both Judaism and Islam: the tradition of the sapling. Different versions are […]
Lessons Learned in Teaching Luther in a Pandemic
August/September 2021: Lutheran Higher Education, Rooted and Open (Volume 21 Issue 5)
[1] In Spring 2021, I taught a course on Lutheranism for the first time in a few years. As with probably every single other institution of higher education, Midland University, where I have taught since 2008, was responding to the COVID-19 epidemic and to the challenges it presented to our students, staff, and faculty. We […]