The title of this book plays upon the central place a theology of the cross holds in Lutheran theologies, especially lucid in Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518). The 500th anniversary of this document coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations wherein the preamble points to a global aspiration of a common good shaped by freedom, justice and peace. This book is located at the intersection of these two themes, asserting that the cross has...

Beginning in its sesquicentennial year, St. Olaf is committing to telling more honest stories about its history as one way to live out its Land Acknowledgment statement. This volume gives voice to untold stories of the college's institutional saga -- from those of the Wahpekute Band of the Dakota Nation who preceded the college's founders, to those of the women, immigrants, Lutheran Christians, and first-generation students the college has served since its inception, to those of students, ...