Background
He was the son and grandson of Methodist ministers.
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- Selected writings Truth Telling: The Foolishness of Preaching in a Real World The Nation Yet to Be (a bicentennial study book that went through several editions) Wilderness Voices The United Methodist Primer, (Revised Edition) Nashville, Discipleship Resources, 1976 (originally published Nashville, Tidings, 1972). Mission: Middle America The Urgent Now The Journey That Men Make The Pastor and the Public Servant Living and Dying with Purpose and Grace Change: Reflections on Social Change and Personal Transformation If Only: George McGovern and the America That Might Have Been The Clock is Ticking: a 'How To' Approach to the Aging Process.
Arthur Armstrong
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Earning academic degrees from Florida Southern College (Bachelor of Arts) and the Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Master of Divinity)) he did graduate work at Boston University and the University of Chicago.
Career
As President of the National Council of Churches he was called "the most influential religious leader in America" by the United States. News and World Report in 1982. He was awarded honorary degrees by Emory University, Florida Southern College, DePauw, Illinois Wesleyan, Evansville and Dakota Wesleyan universities, and Westmar College. He chaired the denomination"s Board of Church and Society and its Commission on Religion and Race.
The author of a dozen books and a contributor to many more, he has also written widely for Christian journals and periodicals.
Active in human rights and global peace and justice movements he has also been a political activist. He organized and chaired Religious Leaders for McGovern, a group of more than 200 religious leaders, during the presidential campaign of 1972.
When he left South Dakota in 1980, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the largest newspaper in the state, headlined, "South Dakota"s social conscience prepares to move on." Armstrong met with Kim Dae-jung in his home in Seoul, South of Korea, when Kim was under house arrest. Kim painted a calligraphy for him which now hangs in his office.
Following his retirement from the ministry in 1999, Armstrong taught at the Florida Center for Theological Studies.
In his 90s, he continues teaching at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Each year Dakota Wesleyan University gives a "Bishop Armstrong Peace and Justice Award" to an outstanding student who has made significant contributions to peace and justice. DWU also maintains an Armstrong Native American Scholarship fund.
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Selected writings Truth Telling: The Foolishness of Preaching in a Real World The Nation Yet to Be (a bicentennial study book that went through several editions) Wilderness Voices The United Methodist Primer, (Revised Edition) Nashville, Discipleship Resources, 1976 (originally published Nashville, Tidings, 1972). Mission: Middle America The Urgent Now The Journey That Men Make The Pastor and the Public Servant Living and Dying with Purpose and Grace Change: Reflections on Social Change and Personal Transformation If Only: George McGovern and the America That Might Have Been The Clock is Ticking: a 'How To' Approach to the Aging Process.
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