October 23, 2005 Guest - Art
Simon
Program: The No-Nonsense Prayer
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 Art
Simon is the founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, the
nation’s premier citizen’s lobby against hunger. He served for almost
two decades as its chief executive officer and then directed the
Washington Office of Christian Children’s Fund from 1992 to 1997. He was
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church on New York’s Lower East Side, a
densely populated low-income area, from 1961 to 1972. His book, Bread
for the World, won the national Religious Book Award. His most
recent book is Rediscovering the Lord’s Prayer (Augsburg, 2005).
Simon is an alumnus of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Dana College,
Blair, Nebraska. He has received a number of awards and honorary
degrees, including the Presidential Hunger Award for Lifetime
Achievement. Photo
by Martin H. Simon |
