Thursday, March 10, 2022

LCMS/ELCA Leadership

John Arthur Nunes headshot

"The Rev John Arthur Nunes, PhD, is a Lutheran pastor and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has served as the President of Concordia College New York, as the President and CEO of Lutheran World Relief, and as a professor at Valparaiso University. Recent books are, with Alberto Garcia, Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimagining the Reformation from the Margins (2017) and Meant for More: In, With, and Under the Ordinary (2020). Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he is a graduate of Concordia College, Ann Arbor MI (BA), Concordia Seminary, St Catharines, ON, Canada (MDiv), and the ELCA Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (ThM and PhD).


John is married to Monique Nunes, MA, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Concordia University Irvine, California. They have six children and thirteen grandchildren."


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GJ - LCMS members wonder, for instance, about the Concordia College in Mequon and the turmoil there. The Missouri Synod has a very large contingent of clergy who are really ELCA in background, education, or philosophy. The ELCA cheerleaders in Missouri are much larger in number and influence than most people imagine.


 "We finally got rid of that Ichabod blog."
GJ - Neither one is a PhD. Matt got his D.D. from a weight-loss clinic in St. Louis. Kintz got his education degree online, part-time, in three years, after joining CPH.