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Thrivent Choice Deadline!

Thrivent Choice Deadline!

Direct Your Thrivent Choice® Dollars to ILT

The deadline to direct your Thrivent Choice Dollars is March 31, 2026. This program offers an easy and meaningful way to support ILT in our mission of training faithful pastors for the future.

Simply log in to your Thrivent account, click “Direct Choice Dollars,” and select The Institute of Lutheran Theology. This simple act of support helps us continue our work, support more students, pastors and congregations, and further advance our mission.

To learn more about how to direct your Thrivent Choice Dollars, visit:

https://www.thrivent.com/about-us/membership/thrivent-choice

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Annual Verba Vitae Print Subscriptions Available!

Rather than tracking down individual issues, subscribe today and have your print editions delivered directly to you. Printed issues of Verba Vitae: A Serious Christian Journal of Life and Its Significance are available by subscription.

Annual subscriptions include the full volume year and will be sent regardless of when the subscription is placed during that year. Please note that subscriptions do not auto renew.

Subscription options include:
• $50 — one year subscription
• $95 — two year subscription
• $45/year — continuous subscription (three year minimum: $135)
• $100/year — institutional or library subscription

Subscribe today at library.ilt.edu/verba-vitae/

Check out Verba Vitae’s Substack blog for ongoing reflections and commentary. For questions or additional information, please contact verba-vitae@ilt.edu.

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Discover the Newest Offerings From ILT Press!

ILT Press has released an exciting new issue of Promissio: A Journal of Confessing Theology, titled Theology as Knowledge of God. We invite you to read the full PDF, submit your own work for publication, or sign up to receive future issues at this link: https://promissio.ilt.edu/index.php/pj

The Winter issue of Verba Vitae: A Serious Christian Journal of Life and its Significance is available—featuring thoughtful, deeply engaging reflections on Christian life and meaning. Explore the latest issue, get hard copies, or subscribe on Substack here: https://library.ilt.edu/verba-vitae/