How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?" the psalmist asks. Though few of tomorrow’s pastors will be called to serve in Babylon, much of today’s culture is a foreign land for historic Christianity. Learning to read this culture and speak the gospel in its language is critical for the Church today. Helping students to do that is the goal of contextual education.   

Academic and Professional History

B.S., University of Nebraska; M.A.; Whitworth College; M.Div., Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary; PLTS, 1998 - .

Special Service

Member, Oregon Synod Consultation Committee; Oregon Synod Candidacy Committee; Instructor, Comparative Religion, Pacific University, Forrest Grove, OR, 1995; Women’s Winter Retreat Leader, Holden Village, 1989; Member, Board of Directors, Oregon Lutheran Office on Public Policy, 1989-91; Instructor, School of Religious Learning for Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, 1989; Member, Oregon Synod Council, 1987-1990; Member, Oregon Synod Planning Group for the ELCA, 1986-88; Bible Study Leader, Triennial Convention of Lutheran Church Women, 1986; author, Bible studies and devotionals for the ELCA and Augsburg Fortress: "Stir Us, Free Us...in Christ for Witness, Mission and Service," 1994; "Why Do We Hope?," 1993; "Wind and Flame: Power for an Evangelical People," 1991; "Stories Jesus Told," 1990; text and lyrics, "Call us Home, A Service of Holy Communion for Healing and Hope," 1998; lyrics of liturgical solos, 1986-98.

Contact

sgranata@plts.edu
(510) 559-2736