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The Reverend Peter W. Marty is the host of
Grace Matters, the radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America. In addition to being host of Grace Matters, Peter is
senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, a 3000-member congregation in
Davenport, Iowa. 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. Peter began his broadcast ministry as host of
Grace Matters radio in February 2005.
Pastor Marty graduated from both The Colorado
College and Yale Divinity School with honors. He was the 1979 recipient
of an honors fellowship in history for study at Oxford University. Prior
to studies at Yale, Marty lived in Cameroon, West Africa for one and a
half years, serving as the director of building for a mission outpost of
the Lutheran Church.
Marty has served on a number of hospital,
college, foundation, and community boards. Presently he is on the board
of trustees for Augustana College, Rock Island, IL., and chairs the
board of The
Christian Century magazine. He preaches and speaks around the
country and regularly publishes articles on leadership, preaching, and
parish renewal in America. He has been a frequent workshop leader on
congregational life and pastoral leadership. Other writings include
contributions to several multi-volume works on lectionary preaching, a
chapter in a book on Practical Theology, and a forthcoming book from
Augsburg Fortress: The Anatomy of
Grace (Autumn 2008). Marty is a one-time
fellow of the Fund for
Theological Education, and has served as a consultant on pastoral
leadership for the Fund. He has been a Pastor’s Working Group member
with the Louisville Institute, and a participant in a Duke Project for
the Study of Ministry.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Peter W. Marty has committed energies to a range of assignments
including ecumenical ministries teams, candidacy committee advisor, a
Lutheran-Episcopal seminar leader, chair of the Senior Pastors’
Conference, and twice as a Colleague Program Leader mentoring new
pastors. Presently at St. Paul, 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, Jacob and Rachel. He enjoys family travel, woodworking,
tennis, French horn, reading, and the adventure of waking up to a new
day every day.
These photos may be used to publicize
Grace Matters.
To Download:
right-click the link of your preferred format and "Save Target As" to
save the file to a folder on your computer. Please address inquiries and
questions to
gracematters@elca.org
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