Conference Schedule
2024 Biennial Meeting of the Lutheran Historical Conference
October 10-12, 2024
Baltimore, Maryland and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
“Lutherans Uniting and Dividing”
Thursday, October 10
Conference begins at the Lutheran Church Center right next to Christ Lutheran Church, 700 Light Street, in the fifth floor conference room.
10:30-11:30 LHC Board Meeting
12:00-12:50 Registration for LHC 2024
1:00-1:15 Welcome and Presidential Remarks
1:15-3:45 Paper Session #1: Biography
Phillip Hooper: “Georg Sverdrup’s Hope for a Lutheran Free Church”
William E. Petig: “Albert F. W. Grimm: His Life and Work”
Joel Pless: “He had no Enemies, Except Republicans” (John A. Race, was a Lutheran layman from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin)
James Huenink: “Nathaniel Carter: Uniting Black and White Lutherans in the Joint Synod of Ohio”
4:00 Reception at Lutheran Church Center
Presentations on Histories of Lutheran World Relief, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service/Global Refuge
Friday, October 11
(Sessions & Lunch held at the Lutheran Church Center )
8:00-10:00 Paper Session #2: 19th Century
Steven A. Hackbarth: “Early Lutheran Networks and Throughways of Dodge County, Wisconsin”
Trenton R. Ferro: “Another Loehe Colony? Trinity Lutheran Church, Goodfarm (Dwight), IL”
Martin Lohrmann: “The Frankenmuth Colonies and U.S. Colonialism”
Leslie F. Weber, Jr.: “The Baltimore Beginnings of William A. Passavant’s Ministry”
Benjamin Phelps: “Wyneken in Baltimore: Contesting the Lutheran Identity in Baltimore 1845-1850”
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Paper Session #3: Particular Church Bodies (LCMS; Læstadianism)
Jon Diefenthaler: “Understanding the LCMS: Some Historical Observations”
Mirko M. Hall: “Recent Doctrinal Disputes in the Laestadian Lutheran Church”
Jack H. Raisanen: “Laestadians Dividing and Dividing”
12:00-1:00 Lunch and LHC Business Meeting with Elections
1:00-3:00 Paper Session #4: 20 th Century
Eric Becklin: “The Question of Postwar Aid to Lutherans in China, 1946-49: The Efforts of Peng Fu,Daniel Nelson, Jr., and Others”
Amanda Randall: “The Lutheran World Federation Service to Refugees Photographic Section: An
Album of World Lutheran Realignments”
Suzanne Hequet: “100 Years of Grace: Resilience in Urban Ministry at Jehovah Evangelical Lutheran Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota”
Matthew E. Borrasso: “Faithful Participation: Exploring Lutheran Perspectives on Abortion”
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15 Paper Session #5: Music
Jeffrey Pannebaker: “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Lutheran Chorales in the Hymnals of the General Synod”
Elisabeth J. Urtel: “Ye Lands, to the Lord Make A Jubilant Noise: The Formation of The Lutheran Hymnal as Told by the Norwegian Synod”
5:30-6:00 Guided Tour of Historic Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore
6:00-7:00 Banquet at Zion Lutheran Church
7:00 Keynote Address: Professor Jill Ogline Titus, Gettysburg College, “Cold War Civil Rights: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Gettysburg”
Saturday, October 12
8:00 Meet at Christ Lutheran Church for bus trip to Gettysburg, PA
Session in Valentine Hall at the Seminary
10:00-10:15 Welcome and Remarks: Mark Oldenburg, Lutheran Historical Society-Mid-Atlantic
10:15-11:45 Paper Session #5: [Lutherans in Pennsylvania]
Harvey Huntley (James R. Crumley Jr. Archives): "Unsung: A Chronicle of Black Lutherans in the South."
Richard B. Baumann: “Decline, Demise and Fragmentation of Lutheranism in Eastern Pennsylvania: What Does this Mean?
Stephen R. Herr: “Milton Valentine: The General Synod’s General Theologian”
12:00 Lunch in Seminary Refectory sponsored by the LHS-MA
1:00 LHC Board Meeting
1:00-3:00 Tour Options: Seminary Ridge Museum, Seminary Archives, Gettysburg Battlefield
3:00 Bus returns to Baltimore. Hotel block pricing available for Saturday night.
REGISTRATION
The 2024 LHC meeting will be held at the Lutheran Church Center in Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. It will take place October 10-12, 2022.
Due to a fire at Christ Inner Harbor church, all of our meeting sessions will be at the Lutheran Church Center right next to the church, 700 Light Street, in the fifth floor conference room.
Registration is due by September 20, 2024
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Lodging Information
Hotel reservations must be made directly with your hotel. A block rooms have been reserved at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court, 550 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21202 (413-372-9333), two blocks from our meeting place at Christ Inner Harbor Lutheran Church. (Request Lutheran Historical Conference room rate of $149 per night plus tax, which can also be applied to Wednesday, Oct. 9, and Saturday, Oct. 12.) Reservations must be made by September 11, 2024. Hotel parking is $22 per night. (If you are driving to the conference, the better option is the parking lot at Christ Inner Harbor church, 701 S. Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 410-752-7179, which you must arrange in advance in order to get a free parking permit). If you are flying to BWI airport, Light Rail is available to take you directly to downtown Baltimore (Camden Station), which is five blocks from the hotel. Otherwise, there is Uber or Lyft.
You can use this link to book.
Lutheran Historical Conference Biennial Meeting
The Lutheran Historical Conference gathers in a biennial conference, usually in October of the even-numbered years (2012, 2014, 2016, etc), at significant Lutheran institutions around the country. We give and hear historical presentations from our members, and tour around to important historical sites. The call for papers to be given at the conference is circulated to the membership the Spring prior to the biennial meeting.
Locations of prior meetings:
2022- Concordia Lutheran Seminary, St. Louis, MO
2020, 2021 - Online
2018 - California Lutheran University
2016 - Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX
2014 -Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI
2012 - Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA