From the 8:45am service on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. About Dr. Lauren Whitnah | Dr. Lauren Whitnah joins us from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin, where she has served as Dean since 2024. Dr. Whitnah holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Oxford, and she brings with her an impressive record of scholarship, teaching, and leadership. Before her current role, Dr. Whitnah was a senior lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she taught more than 400 students each year in interdisciplinary courses exploring the history, religion, culture, and politics of medieval Western Europe. Her scholarly work focuses on devotion to saints and the meaning of sacred places in the High Middle Ages.