Talk:Scotty McLennan

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 * Image was removed at some point --Erp (talk) 15:18, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Notability
The article currently has a notability warning on it. Anyone interested in rewriting the article to establish notability should probably start with the article "Dude of God: Doonesbury Preacher's Model has a Flock, a Message, and a Book," in the Boston Globe. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the entire article. --75.36.238.194 (talk) 20:51, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Violation?
This article is almost word for word copy of the scottymclennan.com/bio :


 * But see note at the bottom of this entry re: Scotty's authorized Stanford bio-- (talk) 02:06, 6 June 2010

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Biography of the Rev. Scotty McLennan

The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. — better known as "Scotty McLennan" — was born on November 21, 1948, son of William L. McLennan and Alice Polk Warner. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, and author. Since January 1, 2001, McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University in California, where he oversees religious affairs on campus, is the minister of the Stanford Memorial Church and teaches undergraduate and Graduate School of Business courses.

Originally from Lake Forest, Illinois, McLennan attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. He received his BA degree from Yale University in 1970. In his senior year at Yale, McLennan was chosen to be a "Scholar of the House", exempting him from attending class and allowing him to focus on scholarly research. The result of this research was a monograph entitled “Computers and Infinity.”

He earned M.Div. and J.D. degrees from Harvard’s Divinity and Law Schools in 1975. He was ordained in 1975 as a Unitarian Universalist Christian minister, and admitted that year to the Massachusetts bar. After practicing church-sponsored poverty law in a low-income neighborhood of Boston for a decade and founding the Unitarian Universalist Legal Ministry, he was appointed University Chaplain at Tufts University in Medford, Massachuestts from 1984 to 2000. He also served as a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School between 1988 and 2000.

In 1994, he was the recipient of The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award, the oldest annual award given to Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae "to honor among its graduates one who exhibits a passionate and helpful interest in the lives of other people." McLennan also was honored with the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award in 2004. The award was "established to recognize leaders who promote peace and world reconciliation" by Morehouse College.

McLennan's first book, Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning, was published in 1999 by HarperSanFrancisco. His second book, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, was co-authored with Laura Nash and published in 2001 by Jossey-Bass. His third book, Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All, is scheduled to be released by Palgrave-Macmillan on May 12, 2009.

Scotty McLennan is married to Ellen S. McLennan. They wed in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and are the parents of two sons, Will McLennan (b. 1982) and Dan McLennan (b. 1984), both of whom are alumni of Stanford University.

McLennan's grandfather, Donald R. McLennan, co-founded the insurance brokerage, Marsh & McLennan, in 1905 in Chicago. Today, Marsh & McLennan Companies is a US-based global professional services and insurance brokerage firm.

McLennan is part of the inspiration for the cartoon character Reverend Scot Sloan in Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoon strip "Doonesbury". The character is also based on the late William Sloane Coffin, McLennan's mentor and former Chaplain at Yale University, where McLennan and Trudeau were undergraduate roommates. " —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.142.36.76 (talk) 19:04, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Worrying but I'm not sure whether the wikipedia article came first (the vast majority of the material in it is older than the web site which is fairly new) or whether both came from a third source. --Erp (talk) 16:52, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

--The website and the Wikipedia page were adapted from a third source, the bio prepared by his office and authorized by Scotty McLennan on his Stanford Office for Religious Life biography at http://www.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/aboutMcLennan.html

There is not a Copyright Violation -- (talk) 02:06, 6 June 2010

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