Puget Sound Pastors Conference – Spring 2025

The Spring Puget Sound Pastors Conference will take place May 6-8, 2025. It is tentatively scheduled to be held in Sequim, Washington. Registration materials will be uploaded before the end of February. Contact Rev. Jeffrey Ries for questions.

Conference Title: ‘The Atheist Who Became a Bishop’ – Bo Giertz Is a Unique, Broad, and Deep Voice that North Americans Need to Hear”

Conference Speaker: Rev. Eric Andræ – Campus Pastor and Outreach Minister at First Trinity Lutheran Church and Luther House student center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Conference Subject: Bo Giertz (1905-1998) served as a rural parish pastor, occasional preacher to the royal court, bishop of the Gothenburg diocese in the Church of Sweden, Vice President of the Lutheran World Federation, and prolific author on every subject imaginable. Speaker Rev. Eric R. Andræ will sketch the man and pastor, while focusing and merging his views on ecclesiology, pietism, Law and Gospel, the office of the ministry, preaching, Seelsorge/pastoral care, the atonement, and more, while engaging significant primary source material as yet unavailable in English. Andræ has been the campus pastor and outreach minister at First Trinity Lutheran Church and Luther House Student Center in Pittsburgh since February 2001. He is the president of the International Giertz Society and has been published in numerous journals and books in North America and Europe on a variety of topics.