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BA in English education, St. Olaf College, 1972; MA in the history of education, Columbia University, Teachers College, 1977; MDiv, LTSP, 1994; PhD in Worship, Proclamation, and the Arts, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2003; pastorates in Montana (1993-98) and Minnesota (2002-05). Dr. Melinda Quivik returns to LTSP after sojourns in Montana where she served two churches, in California doing PhD study, and in Minnesota where she spent three years serving a Minneapolis church. In 2003, Dr. Quivik was adjunct professor of worship at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Her theological school teaching experience also includes Luther Seminary in St. Paul and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She has worked in a number of capacities with the Renewing Worship project of the ELCA: as a member of the preaching consultation on "Principles for Worship," as a member of development panels for the Holy Communion and Life Passages liturgies, as a presenter for Renewing Worship Days in several different synods, and as an organizer of testing for the holy communion settings. Dr. Quivik will be teaching homiletics in the academic year 2005-06 while she and Dr. Dirk Lange fashion a course of study for LTSP students that will more closely fuse the disciplines of liturgical study and homiletics than they have been taught in the past. Dr. Quivik welcomes this creative collaboration as she continues studying the ways meaning is constructed in the assembly through both word and sacrament. Her book, A Christian Funeral: Witness to the Resurrection (Augsburg Fortress, 2005) is part of the Worship Matters series, utilizing research from her PhD work The Beautiful Funeral: The Aesthetics of a Liturgy (UMI, 2003). She has published in Sundays and Seasons, the journal Liturgy, and in various homiletical helps. At the 2005 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Florida, she was one of the preachers for the daily eucharist. As a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL), she convenes the Liturgical Language Seminar and previously also convened the Lutheran caucus of NAAL. Dr. Quivik is also a member of the Academy of Homiletics and the American Association of Religion. [click for publication-quality photo] Links: |
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Rev. Dr. Melinda A. Quivik