Pastor Jen Rude sits down with Aziza Ahmed '20 and Kara Barkman '19 for a conversation about interfaith work: how that looks at Pacific Lutheran University, how it impacts the Lutheran identity and what the students' different experiences and backgrounds — one Muslim, one Lutheran — have been with interfaith interactions on campus.

Pastor Jen Rude sits down with former interim PLU pastor and Director of Congregational Engagement John Rosenberg and St. Mark's Lutheran by the Narrows pastor Jan Ruud to discuss faith in times of trouble. Both Rosenberg and Rudd spoke at the 2018 Summer Institute in Pastoral Theology: "Leading a Congregation in Anxious Times."

As part of our partnership with Tacoma podcasting powerhouse Channel 253, President Allan Belton and Assistant Director of Admission for Equity & Access Julian Franco got to sit down with Nerd Farmer Podcast host and 2016 Washington State Teacher of the Year Nate Bowling for a conversation about trends in higher education, access and the equity work happening here at Pacific Lutheran University.

Angie Hambrick, PLU's Assistance Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, discusses the university's Trinidad and Tobago exchange program with noted Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace, PLU English professor Barbara Temple-Thurston and D-Center alum Shelondra Harris '17.

Pastor Jen Rude sits down with PLU Acting President Allan Belton and University Provost Joanna Gregson to discuss the university's Lutheran identity, their roles on campus and what it means to work here, how they themselves identify spiritually, and the paths they've taken to discover their vocations.

Angie Hambrick, PLU's Assistance Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with Diversity Center alumni Maurice Eckstein '11 and Nicole Jordan '15 to discuss this year's Common Reading book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Angie Hambrick, PLU's Assistance Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with Diversity Center alumni Maurice Eckstein '11 and Nicole Jordan '15 to discuss this year's Common Reading book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Pastor Jen Rude sits down with Pacific Lutheran University students Emily Shane and Alex Lund to discuss faith formation at a Lutheran university, and how their own faith paths have changed while being a part of Lutheran higher education.

Pastor Jen Rude sits down with PLU Chair of Lutheran Studies Marit Trelstad to discuss Lutheran higher education and why it matters.

In the first episode of "Because We're Lutheran," Pacific Lutheran University Pastor Jen Rude discusses spiritual journeys and faith traditions with two non-Lutheran PLU graduates.