About Pastor Lauren

Name: Lauren Kirsh-Carr

Age: 39

Children:  Dylan (8), Caroline (5),

                    Nicholas (1)

Education:

Bachelor of Arts

     from the University of Michigan

     in Psychology

Master of Divinity

     from the Lutheran School of

     Theology at Chicago

Email: pastorlkc@gmail.com

Pastor Lauren’s Favorites

Books:  Mysteries, The Shack, The 

      Church of England series by

      Susan Howatch

Writers: Susan Howatch, Laurie R.

    King, Greg Iles, Andrew Greeley

Quote: "A tiresome English poet

   thought that the glow in a baby's

   eyes when she comes into the

   world is a hint of her contact

   with God, a memory of which

   never fades away. My own

   feeling is that the child is

   smirking because she knows

   that she's God's hedge on the

   future of the Church and indeed

   of the species. In the ordinary

   course of human events she will

   still be alive when all of us are

   dead. She will see to the

   continuation of the Church after

   our own efforts have become

   superfluous. We can face that

   inevitable fact with some

   confidence because we know

   that life is stronger than death,

   not only in the resurrection, but

   also in the birth of a new child,

   an even which is a cognate, a

   hint, of the promise of the

   resurrection. Because of babies

   and the God who sends them to

   us to delight our lives, we know

   that death finally will have no

   power over us and we even cry

   out with St. Paul, if we are in

   such a mood, 'O death where is

   thy victory! O death where is thy

   sting!'

      - Father Andrew M. Greeley

           in Irish Stew

Food: India, Thai, Vietnamese

Travel Desinations: Skiing up

   north; Bethany Beach, Delaware