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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:20:19 -0500
From: Michael Harnois
Geez, I hate writing these things ... reminds me too much of a CPE application.
I grew up in the ALC, went to seminary in the LCA (LSTC), served my
internship in the AELC and was ordained in the ELCA in 1988. My first
call was to a three-point parish in central Illinois with about 12
worshipers at each point (on a good Sunday.) When I told the bishop
after six months that there was no way to make any of the
congregations viable, he determined to keep me from ever receiving
another call. After another eighteen months, two bishop's assistants
smuggled me from Illinois to Iowa under cover of darkness and placed
me in a congregation that had run out four of their last six
pastors. After eighteen months there I was hospitalized for depression
and had yet another bishop sworn to end my career.
Following those delightful experiences, I served several interims and
worked as a hospice chaplain for three years. Since January of 1994 I
have been the pastor of Redeemer, Washburn, Iowa, beginning at
half-time and now at 2/3. Since last fall I have also been the 1/4
time executive director and dean of Conference VII: Black Hawk
Lutheran Ministry.
My primary interests are in the areas of liturgics, ecumenism, and
counseling. I am a member of The Network and advocate for the full
inclusion of gay and lesbian persons in the life of the church. I
serve as the synodical ecumenical representative for the Northeastern
Iowa Synod and represent the synod on the Unity Commission of
Ecumenical Ministries of Iowa.
I've been computing since 1982 and while I was in seminary I repaired
Kaypros. (That job led me to a brief and unfortunate stint working at
8765 W. Higgins Road.) I started telecommunicating in 1984 and was one
of the original testers for what is now Lutherlink. I have a
three-node LAN here at home, with a Pentium that dual boots between
Windows 95 and Linux, a 486 that runs Win95, and a 396 running Linux
that operates my packet radio station, aa0bt.ampr.org.
I could tell you about flunking out of college, switching majors three
times on my second try, being a Max Kade Fellow in German Studies at
Indiana, and a whole lot of other stuff, but this is a long enough
note already.
My wife, Susan, is a cataloger at the Waterloo Public Library and
holds an MLS from Iowa. David is almost 11 and Andrew is 6. Skipper, a
Springer/Brittany mix who was our practice for having children, is 12,
and Spencer, a Havanese (yes, that's also a canis familiaris) is just
over a year old.
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:14:28 -0400
From: hartmank@hermes.law.stetson.edu
Hi, I have been lurking for some time on the Lutheran list and now the ELCA
- but never had the nerve to speak up. Since intros are being encouraged,
I'm jumping in.
My name is Kathy Hartman and I am a lay member of Trinity Lutheran Church in St.
Petersburg, Florida. We are an older, downtown ELCA congregation of about
300 members, most of whom are over 70. I am the teamleader of our Stephen's
ministry program, a lay assistant, an alto in the choir and back-up organist.
I was raised small-town Southern Baptist and left the church the same day I
left home many years ago. When son was born, I began to feel the need to
return and raise him in the church. At the same time, husband and I were
both in grad school and flat broke. I was hired as the organist of a
Lutheran church in Athens, Georgia - having never heard a liturgical service
in my life. It was quite the learning experience - this was about the time
of the switch to the green book of worship and the congregation was learning
all three settings. In spite of mass confusion, we felt at home and have
remained a Luthern family ever since.
In my outside life, I am Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Stetson
University College of Law. My bachelor's degree is in political science and
theatre (split personality) from Mercer University and I have a master's in
counseling from The University of Georgia. Currently (and probably forever)
I am ABD status in Higher Education Administration at The University of
South Florida. Husband, Lew is an artist and son, John is a rising senior
in high school.
I look forward to following the various theological conversations and hope
to understand at least most of them.
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Kathy Hartman hartmank@hermes.law.stetson.edu
Director of Admissions (813) 562-7842
and Financial Aid Fax: 813-343-0136
Stetson University
College of Law http://www.law.stetson.edu
1401 61st Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 96 13:50:57 PST
From: "michael"
Dear fellow list-members,
I just realized that even though I have participated in Lthrn-L for
some time, people might not know me on this list.
My name is Michael T. Hiller. I am the Associate Pastor for Community
and Liturgical Life at St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco.
I have served at St. Francis unofficially since 1982, officially since
1984. My position there is part time. I am also the VP for Human
Resource Development at Stanford Federal Credit Union, the CU for
Stanford University. I have been in this position for 10 years.
My primary interests are liturgical studies, cooking, ballet, and
going anywhere and doing anything with my life-partner, Arthur M.
Morris. I have a daughter, Anna, who will be studying at the
University of Cordova (Spain), and is completeing her senior year at
Oberlin College (Ohio).
My brother, Thomas Hiller, is pastor of Good Shepherd Church in
Madras, Oregon.
I look forward to the discussions on this list, especially as they
address the ELCA's discussions with the Episcopal Church.
Blessings to you all.
P.S. If you are ever in San Francisco, please visit us at St. Francis
Church. Also, Arthur and I give a dynamite tour of The City.
Michael T. Hiller
St. Francis Lutheran Church
michael@sfcu.org
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 8:06:38 MDT
From: Wayne Holst
Members of the ELCA-List:
Since I was here when the list started a few weeks ago, and since
I didn't give a lot of information about myself then; and since
John is putting together a collection for all new members, let me
'reintroduce' myself.
I am a Canadian, and a pastor of the ELCiC - daughter church of
both ALC and LCA - merged in Canada in 1986. I come out of the
LCA tradition and have served the church as parish minister,
missionary (Trinidad WI); church executive on both synod and
Division for Mission in North America staff (Winnipeg and New
York).
During much of the 1980's I was the pastor developer, then pastor
of Advent Lutheran, Calgary. That congregation, I'm happy to
note, is now one of the larger parishes in the city today.
I did my seminary work at Waterloo, Ont. Then, some doctoral prep
work at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1989 I
completed my doctorate in missiological studies at St. Stephen's
College, the University of Alberta.
For the past 6 and a half years, I've been a research associate
and lecturer at the Arctic Institute of North America at the
University of Calgary. I work in the field of Native American
studies and focus on cross-cultural and primal spiritual
traditions. I've done quite a lot of consulting work with
churches that have traditionally been involved in mission with
Native American peoples. (eg. Catholics, Anglicans, United Church
of Canada - with Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregtionalist
roots).
More recently I done some support work, helping the ELCiC with
its mission planning process. After a decade in the new church it
was apparent that the compromises and ill-developed processes
when resulted in a less than adequate system for a merged church
in Canada - have had to be rebuilt. I see this as a healthy
sign. After almost a decade of marginal involvement in the ELCiC
because of political issues and my own desire to refocus my
career on broader academic and ecumenical lines, I am happy for
the opportunity to be more directly involved again.
I am married to Gail. Together, we have three sons (hers) and two
daughters (mine). All are now adults (three are married) and
living away from home. Gail has a degree in teaching home
economics from earlier in her life, and more recently has a
degree in educational psychology. Because ours is a blended
family, we have much to work on as we seek to find a new life;
after having lived rather full family experiences in an earlier
incarnation.
I'm pleased to be part of this list - both because of its ELCA
and its ecumenical orientation. I have tried to live and work an
ecumenical way from the very beginnings of my pastoral career.
Greetings,
Wayne Holst, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
wholst@acs.ucalgary.ca
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:50:16 -0500
From: "john m. hudson"
It occurs to me that I have not introduced myself officially. (I was
the guy who sent the too-impassioned post out to Rolaant McKenzie last
night.)
My name is John McNeely Hudson (obviously). I am a member of St.
Philip Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Hollins, Va., which is a
suburb of Roanoke in the Southwest part of the state.
I am a design editor at The Roanoke Times; have been so for nearly 19
years. My undergraduate degree was in journalism, English and Spanish.
My first inkling of God's grip on my life was toward the end of
college at a time of profound loneliness. When I came to myself, I was
being baptized and confirmed. This was April 23, 1978, at St. John's
Episcopal Church in Johnson City, Tenn.
My theological bent became apparent when I moved from the very
conservative (then, at least) broad- to high-church Diocese of
Tennessee to the very liberal, low- to lower-church Diocese of
Southwestern Virginia. A four-year extension course from the U.of the
South's theological school was recommended by my priest (hard to say
that word anymore; too sacerdotal for me now). Not only did I learn
and learn and learn, but the fire became a blaze and -- well, those of
you who also have dens overflowing with Bibles and theological books
understand.
This is becoming long. Sorry. I have, over these 19 years, swung from
Anglo-Catholicism to something more akin to Reformed theology to what
I have been told is a fairly solid Lutheranism. I like the appellation
"evangelical Catholic."
I did a year of Greek at a local Bible college, stumbled on Hebrew and
gave it up (for the time being) and now I am a candidate for a
master's degree in philosophy at Hollins College nearby. The newspaper
is graciously paying my tuition and books. (I told them I would study
ethics, and my boss said, "Well, one thing we could use is more
ethics.") How could I say no?
My wife's name is Linda, and she teaches special ed at a local high
school; my stepdaughter's name is Anna Rachel Taylor, and she is 19
and a freshman at Randolph-Macon Woman's College over in Lynchburg
majoring in Russian and Japanese (until she discovers something else
she loves even more); my son, John Martin Blair Hudson, aka Jack, will
be 7 on April 15 -- which, FYI, was Resurrection Sunday in 1990, the
year he was born.
I've been hanging out on the Lthrn-L list for awhile and thought I'd
come see how the weather is over here. Thanks for taking me on. Now I
have fed my ego enough.
May God bless all of us during this holy season and keep our gaze ever
fixed upon the cross.
John Hudson
ELCA Laity
Roanoke, Va.
(Just say no to synergism)
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:29:38 -0500
From: "Marvin A. Huggins"
Members of the ELCA-List:
Though I am a member of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and serve on
the staff of its Department of Archives and History, I have many friends
in the ELCA, including a number of seminary classmates (St. Louis, 1970)
on its clergy roster, and a daughter who is an active member of Upper
Dublin Lutheran Church, Ambler, Pa. (over 240 years old, a parish from
the Muhlenberg era and tradition).
I have both personal and professional interest in the topics to be
discussed here. At CHI we strive to serve all Lutherans as a research
center on the history of Lutheranism in North America and to gather
information on all aspects of that history. In that connection, I'm
willing to look for answers to historical questions or share relevant
insights based on our past. I'm also interested in listening and
learning as contemporary interests and concerns are discussed.
I am particularly interested in participating in a list in which the
limitations on the style and tone of the discourse that John has
discussed are enforced. It will be a refreshing contrast to some others
that I have spent time on.
In addition to nearly 16 years on the staff at CHI, I have served four
years in a parish and for over six years in the editorial department of
Concordia Publishing House. My wife Barbara is a skin care consultant.
The daughter mentioned above is a chemical engineer (MIT graduate, 1992)
with Merck. Our son has just received his B.A. at the U. of Missouri in
creative writing and moved to Savannah this week. He hopes to get into
editorial work and do some writing.
I look forward to the discussions on this list.
Marvin
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Concordia Historical Institute 801 De Mun Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 721-5934, Ext. 320
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