ELCA NEWS SERVICE
April 7, 2008
CHANTILLY, Va. (ELCA) -- The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) presented the Rev. Martin E. Marty, Chicago, with a special Wilbur Award for promoting open, public discourse on religion. Marty, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was honored April 5 during a banquet closing the RCC's 79th annual convention.
A graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Marty earned a doctorate in 1956 from the University of Chicago. He served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Ill., and Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Elk Grove Village, Ill., before joining the University of Chicago faculty.
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GJ - Mrs. Ichabod is motioning to me again. She can read the screen across the room.
Oh? Martin Marty is ELCA? But he spoke to WELS about evangelism in Florida. He was invited to Wisconsin Lutheran College to be the featured speaker there. How could WELS listen to an ELCA theologian?
Mrs. Ichabod started naming names: Archbishop Weakland, Kent Hunter, Waldo Werning (a cheap shot), and Leonard Sweet!
I guess the unit concept of fellowship in WELS is a wee bit disintegrated, except in the PR department.
What's that, Mrs. I? Yes, I attended the Martin Marty lectures at Notre Dame. But I was in the LCA at that time. So was Marty. Unit fellowship, Mrs. I.
