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Lori Brandt Hale

Lori Brandt Hale

Associate Professor of Religion

Augsburg College

Lori Brandt Hale is Associate Professor of Religion at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an international scholar of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and recently co-authored Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals (Cascade 2017) alongside four colleagues working at ELCA-related colleges and universities. Hale will be a featured speaker at Sojourner’s 2017 Summit for Change in Washington, D.C.

Published Articles

Article

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? A Homily on Liminality and Vocation

Lori Brandt Hale

No. 45 · Spring 2017

Drawing on Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore, Warren St. John’s Outcasts United, Victor Turner’s anthropology of liminality, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem “Who Am I?”, Hale considers how Hmong, Muslim, Latinx, LGBTQ+, non-traditional, and other students live in “double liminal” spaces — and asks whether liminality might itself be a place of transformation in conversations about vocation.

Lori Brandt Hale

Published Articles

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? A Homily on Liminality and Vocation