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Daniel J. Lehmann Editor I am a lifelong Lutheran with decades of experience in secular journalism. Like many of you, I’m interested in the theological and historical roots of our faith and how that plays out in the contemporary world. I want to know what our church le...  |
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Sonia C. Solomonson Managing Editor I'm one of the staff grandmas, a role I cherish. The mother of three and grandmother of eight, I have a passion for my family, reading, music, walking and women's issues. I like concerts, plays, movies and dinners with friends. I really enjoy trips t... |
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Michael D. Watson Art Director My role as art director is to design and supervise the design and layout of the magazine. I am also responsible for taking photos, creating illustrations and hiring others to take photos and create illustrations you see in each issue. My free time in... |
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Elizabeth Hunter Associate Editor I joined the staff in 1999 as the section editor of Church & World. Previously, I edited Seeds for the Parish, now edited by Janice Rizzo. I attend Holy Family Lutheran Church in Chicago, where my husband Leslie is a hard-working youth director.... |
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Kathleen Kastilahn Associate Editor The part of my job as editor of the People & Faith section that I like best is working with terrific freelancers, which just might have something to do with the fact that I wrote for the magazine for 18 years before joining the staff in 1992. (An... |
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Julie B. Sevig Associate Editor My "beat" for The Lutheran is Congregations & Community, a position I've held since being swept away from the ELCA Youth Ministry and Gathering team in 2000. In addition to being an associate editor, I'm the humor funnel (not th... |
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Andrea S. Pohlmann Editorial Production Manager After 18 years and five job titles, you can now find me happily working away at copyediting, production flow, some layouts, overseeing the magazine’s correspondents and other duties. And as editor of the “Youngchurch” page I love to... |
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Amber Leberman Web Manager / Associate Art Director I've worked at The Lutheran magazine for eight years. I manage this Web site, art-direct The Little Lutheran, and serve on the art team for The Lutheran. I also do some occasional reporting. International reporting trips have taken me to Jerusale... |
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Curtis Peterson Circulation Marketing Manager After a lifetime of experiences with daily newspapers, I joined The Lutheran magazine in April 2005. My role is to develop ways for us to increase our circulation and help more people enjoy and enrich their lives with the content provided in Th... |
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Joel Stombres Advertising Director I joined The Lutheran as advertising director in August 2007 after nearly fifteen years in the Christian magazine industry. My prior experience also includes five years in Christian publishing as well as seven years in para-church ministry with Campu... |
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Barbara Fletcher Assistant to the editor I am the newest addition to the editorial office of The Lutheran, beginning July 2008 in my position as Assistant to the Editor. It will be challenging and interesting learning about magazine publishing and I am thrilled to be here.Prior to working... |
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Jeff Favre Contributing Editor I am a contributing editor since March 1999, and I was previously the assistant editor. My niche: writing the stories that get all the hate mail. I try not to take it personally. I am now living ... |
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Rob Blezard Study Guide Editor After 25 fun years in journalism, ending with a wonderful job at The Lutheran magazine, the message God was telling me for years finally sunk in: "Don't write about ministry. Do ministry." So I retooled, was ordained in 2006 and now ser... |
