In addition to being a scholar and a teacher, Dr. Bunge is a deeply committed Lutheran theologian who is highly informed and enthusiastic about the aims of church-related higher education. She was a founding member of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, an ecumenical and national initiative funded by the Lilly Endowment. She directed the planning grant for Valparaiso University's two million dollars “Theological Exploration of Vocation” project, served on the National Task Force on Education of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and was a lead grant writer for the “Gustavus Academy for Faith, Science, and Ethics.” She is also the translator and editor of a collection of essays by the Lutheran theologian J.G. Herder titled Against Pure Reason: Writings on History, Language, and Religion (Fortress Press, 1993; reprint: Wipf and Stock, 2005). She continues to speak and write about Lutheran understandings of education, vocation, and interfaith relationships, and she edited a collection of essays on the Lutheran heritage of Gustavus titled Rooted in Heritage, Open to the World: Reflections on the Distinctive Character of Gustavus Adolphus College (Lutheran University Press, 2017).
