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August 7, 2005 Guest - Presiding
Bishop Mark S. Hanson
Program: A Duct Tape Bible
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 Born in
Minneapolis on Dec. 2, 1946, the Rev. Mark S. Hanson graduated from
Minnehaha Academy in 1964, and earned a bachelor's degree in sociology
from Augsburg College in 1968. He was a Rockefeller Fellow at Union
Theological Seminary from 1968 to 1969, received a master of divinity
degree from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1972, and
attended Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., from 1973 to 1974. He was a
Merrill Fellow at Harvard University Divinity School, Cambridge,
Mass., in 1979.
Following his ordination in 1974, Hanson
served as pastor at Prince of Glory Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, from
1973 to 1979; Edina Community Lutheran Church, Edina, Minn., from 1979
to 1988; and University Lutheran Church of Hope, Minneapolis, from
1988 to 1995. He was elected bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in 1995, and had
been reelected to a second term as synodical bishop prior to his
election as presiding bishop of the ELCA in 2001.
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