November 17, 1925 |
Born to Rev. Peter and Anna Lorentzen in Chicago |
ca. 1943 |
Graduated high school in LaCrosse, Wisconsin |
1947 |
Editor of The County Post of Waupaca, Wisconsin |
1949 |
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (with honor) from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois |
1950s |
Wrote Sunday School curriculum materials for Scripture Press, Gospel Light Press, David C. Cook Publishing |
1951-1954 |
Youth Director at Morgan Park Baptist Church |
1953 |
Graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Northern Baptist Seminary |
1953-1955, 1957 |
Instructor in Greek, Literature and Homiletics at Northern Baptist Seminary |
1954-1955 |
Graduate study in English at Northwestern University |
1955-1958 |
Associate Pastor of the North Shore Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, where he was ordained |
1956 |
Instructor in Writing and Literature at the Baptist Missionary Training School |
1958-1990 |
Joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught English, English Literature, Writing, Christian Ministry, and Communications over the next decades, as well as being actively involved in many other parts of the college life, such as serving as advisor to the campus newspaper and yearbook |
1959 |
Graduated with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Northern Baptist Seminary |
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Interim pastor as several churches, taught creative writing seminars during the summer for many years as Green Lake Wisconsin, and actively involved in the New York City Fine Arts Group, a fellowship of Christian artists |
1979-1990 |
Associate director of the Billy Graham Center of Wheaton College |
1980s |
Assisted Bill Walton, founder of the Holiday Inn hotel chain, write his autobiography, Innkeeper (1987) and a second book The New Bottom Line: People and Loyalty in Business (1986). |
1988-? |
Chaplain of Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stram, Illinois |
1988-1995 |
Served as a researcher and writer in the preparation of Billy Graham’s autobiography, Just As I Am(1997). |
1990 |
Retired from Wheaton College. Continued to speak, write and lead seminars around the country |
January 15, 2005 |
Died at Windsor Park Manor |