The Mason City, Iowa ELCA churches will hold a combined Reformation 500 worship service at 10 a.m. on Oct. 29 in the North Iowa Area Community College’s auditorium. Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad, Minneapolis, MN will be the guest preacher at this service.
Rev. Lundblad received a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and an honorary doctorate from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. Ordained in 1980, Rev. Lundblad served 16 years as a parish pastor in New York City, as well as campus pastor at Lehman College and New York University. From 1997 – 2014 she was Professor of Preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
She is the author of two books: Transforming the Stone: Preaching through Resistance to Change and Marking Time: Preaching Biblical Stories in Present Tense. For over thirty years she has been one of the preachers on the radio program “Day 1” (formerly “The Protestant Hour”). She has preached in hundreds of congregations across the United States, and is a frequent preacher at the Festival of Homiletics. Rev. Lundblad has given lectures in many seminaries across the country, including the Beecher Lectures at Yale.