User:Emerymat

About Me

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WikiProject Lutheranism.

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Education

BS	This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

MDiv	This user has a Master of Divinity degree.

MSU	This user graduated from Michigan State University.

This user graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary.

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This user is male.

This user is a Protestant Christian.

This user is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ.

This user identifies as gay.

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This user is of Scottish ancestry.

This user is of German ancestry.

This user is of Irish ancestry.

This user is originally from the State of Michigan.

This user is interested in LGBT issues.

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This user enjoys classical music.

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org-2This user is an intermediate organist.

pno-1This user is a [[:Category:Wikipedian {{{ist}}}s-1|novice]] pianist.

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Welcome

Peace be with you.

About Me

I am a pastor (a.k.a. ordained minister/clergyperson) in the United Church of Christ and currently serving as the associate pastor at Second Congregational United Church of Christ in Rockford, Illinois. I was ordained October 13, 2006. I received my Master of Divinity degree from Chicago Theological Seminary in May 2006.

I grew up in the small farm town of Ithaca, Michigan. After graduating high school in 1998, I moved to East Lansing, Michigan to begin at Michigan State University. At MSU, I was a Computer Science major in the Lyman Briggs School (one of MSU's residential colleges), a member of the Honors College, a tenor in the Michgan State University Men's Glee Club and the MSU State Singers, and a member at The Peoples Church of East Lansing. Graduating in 2002, I moved to Chicago to begin at the seminary. From 2004-2005, I spent a full-time internship year at a United Church of Christ congregation in metro-D.C. Arlington, Virginia.

Pages I Edit/Watch

Regularly:

• United Church of Christ
• Chicago Theological Seminary
• List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality
• Other pages related to the United Church of Christ, particularly its seminaries and predecessor denominations.

Occasionally:

• Hyde Park, Chicago
• Pages related to Chicago, Illinois
• Pages related to topics in Christianity (especially history, theology, and liturgy/worship), with expertise particularly in the Reformed and Lutheran streams of Protestantism
• Pages related to the Pipe organ

Pages I'd like to create or expand when I get the time:

• United Church of Christ
• Evangelical Synod of North America
• Evangelical and Reformed Church
• Lutheran liturgy
• Reformed liturgy and worship