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Professor Norma Cook Everist came to Wartburg in 1979 after teaching at Yale Divinity School. She helps foster a seminary community atmosphere of shared power and partnership that builds on the gifts and insights of the students, which in turn enhances learning for leadership in the church and in the world.
She is a widely known lecturer across the country and the author of numerous books. Her most recent titles include Transforming Leadership, co-authored with Craig Nessan, and Christian Education as Evangelism, co-authored by twelve professors at Lutheran Seminaries of the ELCA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
Dr. Everist is playing a strong role in the ELCA five-year Book of Faith initiative. She is on the editorial board of the forthcoming Lutheran Study Bible. She prepared the assessment tools for individuals and faith communities included in the book Opening the Book of Faith, and is part of a group preparing a Select video course on methods of teaching the Bible.
She has served nationally and internationally on many task forces and committees in the areas of ministry, leadership, theological education, gender studies, and ministry in daily life. She is faculty editor for The Persistent Voice networking newsletter. She enjoys visiting congregations and church agencies where Wartburg graduates serve.
Everist is a deaconess and an ordained ELCA pastor.
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