The disciplines of church history and ethics might seem an odd portfolio for one professor, but I’ve always been fascinated with how people conduct their lives; I’ve always been convinced that what people believe in has the ability to form, inform, transform, and malform how they conduct their lives. That conviction unites the studies of history and ethics.

Academic and Professional History

BA, Carleton College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago; PLTS, 1981 - .

Special Service

Member and Convener, GTU Core Doctoral Faculty; LCA delegate and Bible study leader, Lutheran World Federation Seventh Assembly, Budapest, 1984; Advisory Committee, LCA Study on Issues Concerning Homosexuality, 1986; Editorial Board, dialog; Advisory Council, Word and World; Member, ELCA Task Force on Theological Education, 1989-1995; ELCA representative, International Consultation of Lutheran Women Theologians, Helsinki, 1991; Author: Pastor Power, 1993; Lecturer, Yost Lectures, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, 1996; Lecturer, ELCA Hein-Fry Lectures, 1998; GTU Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, 1998; Contributor, The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, eds. Karen Bloomquist and John Stumme, 1998.

Papers Online

"Discerning Practices"

Contact

mstortz@plts.edu
(510) 559-2732