User:Emerymat





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