The Rev. Dr. Mary Hinkle Shore

Denomination: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Organization: Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Columbia, SC

The Rev. Dr. Mary Hinkle Shore is Rector and Dean of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Columbia, SC.associate dean for first theological degree programs at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN.

Before assuming this position in February 2019, she served as pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brevard, NC, for six years. She also served 16 years at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, where she was a professor and associate dean.

Shore received the B.A. degree summa cum laude from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982. In 1986 she graduated from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, and was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Following ordination she served for six years in rural and suburban parish settings in North Dakota.

She earned the Ph.D. degree in New Testament and Christian Origins from Duke University in 1997. Her dissertation is entitled, "Proclaiming Peace: The Use of Scripture in Ephesians." While at Duke, she was a teaching assistant in undergraduate religion courses, as well as a preceptor for New Testament and homiletics courses in the Divinity School.

She is the author of Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life, published by Augsburg Fortress in the Lutheran Voices series, as well as numerous essays.