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The Rev. Dr. Peter Marty is senior pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Davenport, IA.
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St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, IAThe Rev. Dr. Peter Marty
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Peter W. Marty serves as senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, a 3400-member congregation in Davenport, Iowa. He is a frequent preacher and speaker at colleges, churches, and conferences across the country. Author of more than 70 articles on leadership, preaching, and parish renewal in America, Marty is also the author of The Anatomy of Grace (Augsburg Fortress, 2008). From 2004-2009, he was host of the national radio broadcast, Grace Matters.
In 2010, the Academy of Parish Clergy named him "Parish Pastor of the Year," an award recognizing leadership excellence and faithfulness in congregational development.
During 2010-2011, he is serving as the lead columnist for The Lutheran magazine.
Pastor Marty has served on a number of hospital, college, foundation, and community boards. Presently he chairs the board of The Christian Century magazine and serves on the board of trustees for Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. Other writings of his include contributions to several multi-volume works on preaching, and chapters in different books on congregational life and theology. He has served as narrator for different faith broadcast documentaries on the Hallmark channel.
Marty is a one-time fellow of the Fund for Theological Education, and has served as a partner on pastoral leadership for the Fund. He has been a member of the Louisville Institute's Pastor's Working Group, and a participant in a Duke Project for the Study of Ministry. In 2009, he was named the visiting Hoskins Fellow at Yale Divinity School.
Prior to his arrival in Davenport in 1996, he served an eight-year pastorate in Kansas City, Missouri and a two-year pastorate in River Forest, Illinois. He is a graduate of The Colorado College and Yale Divinity School. He was the 1979 recipient of an honors fellowship in history for study at Oxford University. Prior to studies at Yale, Marty lived in Cameroun, West Africa for one and a half years, serving as the director of building for a mission outpost of the Lutheran Church.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Peter W. Marty has served as chair of the Senior Pastors' Conference, and twice as a Colleague Program Leader mentoring new pastors. Presently at St. Paul Lutheran, he leads a pastoral residency program funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. This program, designed for fostering pastoral excellence, is one of two in the country situated in a Lutheran Church setting.
He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from St. Ambrose University (Doctor of Humanities).
Peter is married to Susan and they have two children in college - Jacob (Colby College) and Rachel (Colorado State University). He enjoys family travel, woodworking, tennis, French horn, reading, and the adventure of waking up to a new day every day.
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Dr. Peter Marty: Jonah: Changing Course
The Rev. Dr. Peter Marty (ELCA)Love can break chains of dogged certainty, soften calcified heart
Read Jonah 3:1-10
"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet." If you are wondering who first spoke this phrase, her name is Anonymous. I've never met Anonymous, though I'd like to meet her someday since she is responsible for quite a few popular sayings.
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Dr. Peter Marty: An Incognito Lord
The Rev. Dr. Peter Marty (ELCA)Another Bible Story that Breathes Life
Destiny of all rests on how we attend to voices at bottom of human pile
Read Matthew 25:31-46.
It's amazing that the most affluent country in the history of the world is still trying to find the basic resolve and ingenuity to care for, and feed, all of her people. How can we in this nation, which is more professedly Christian than all of its counterparts in the developed world, still be struggling to practice fundamental Christian behavior? Read full article...
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