INTRODUCING...

William E. Lesher

POSITIONS HELD

 

Current:

            Parliament of the World’s Religions, Chair, Board of Tustrees

President Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Coordinator of Congregational Programs, Jubilee USA

            Senior Fellow, New Day International (An affiliate of Growth Design Corporation)

            Senior Consultant, Reinvest South Africa (RISA)

Previous:

President, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1978-1997

            President, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1973-78

            Professor, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1970-73

            Pastor, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Chicago, 1963-1970

            Pastor, Reen Memorial Lutheran Church, St. Louis, 1958-1963

 

ACTIVITIES

 

Current:

President Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

            Consultant, Growth Design Corporation; RISA

Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chair of the Board of Trustees and Co-chair of the Program Committee for the 2004 Parliament in Barcelona, Spain)

            Board and Executive Committee, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia

            Pacific Rim Working Group of the Graduate Theological Union

Jubilee USA Network (Co-chair of the Development Committee, Coordinator for the Jubilee Congregation Program of the Bay Area Jubilee Debt Cancellation Coalition)

Previous:

Chair, Task Force on Globalization, Association of Theological Education

            Chair, Division for Global Mission, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

            Member, Task Force on Theological Education in Africa, Lutheran Word Federation

            Signatory, “Toward A Global Ethic,” Parliament of the World’s Religions

 

EDUCATION

 

            BA (Political Science) Wittenberg University, Master of Divinity, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

 

HONORS       

 

            D. D. California Lutheran University, D. D. Wittenberg University, D.D. Pacific Lutheran University

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

           

            “Pathways to Peace,” DIALOG, Spring 2004

            “An Invitation to Global Table Talk.” Envisioning a Lutheran Community, Kirk House, MN 2002

            “The Challenge of Global Ethics,” ZYGON, Journal of Religion and Science, June 1999

            “Stumbling in the Right Direction” and “Resistance to Globalization,” THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

              Journal of the Association of Theological Schools. Spring 1999   

            “Gift to the thinking Pastor” Currents in Theology and Mission, Spring 2001

           

 

 

Honorarium Range: $10,000 to $20,000

Berkeley, CA