Background

Margaret A. Krych was born on April 4, 1942, in Perth, Australia. She is a daughter of Ernest (a government railroad employee) and Sybil (a homemaker) Sanders.

Education

Margaret A. Krych earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia in 1963. In 1965 she got a Bachelor's Degree with honors at Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia, and in 1970 she got a Master of Theology degree there.

She attended Princeton Theological Seminary, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985.

Career

Margaret A. Krych started her career at Clergy Methodist Church of Australia, Perth, Australia, in 1966-1967, she was an associate director of the department of Christian education of Australia, (1968-1970). She worked at the Editor Lutheran Church American, Philadelphia, in 1973-1977. In 1977-2008 she was a Charles Norton professor of Christian education and theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, and during 1997-2008 she was an associate dean at graduate education.

Margaret A. Krych also has been a Consultant Educational Ministry with Youth Project, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, since 1999. She was a member of the European Landscape Contractors Association Board, Augsburg Fortress Publication House, Minneapolis, 2003-2007.

Achievements

• Margaret A. Krych has been listed as a noteworthy religious organization administrator, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
  
  She was named one of Outstanding Young Women of America in 1976 and 1977. She took part in Women in Leadership in Theological Education program by Association Theological Schools in 2001. She is a recipient of JR Saunders prize in philosophy, University Western Australia, 1960.
  
  Also, she is a Grantee of Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning (2005), Scholar of Hackett competitive scholarship, University of Western Australia (1963, 1964), Teaching and Learning grantee, Association Theological Schools (1999).

Works

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• book

  • Confirmation Engaging Lutheran Foundations and Practices

    (In this volume, nine leading Lutheran scholars examine th...)

  • The Ministry of Children's Education

    (This highly anticipated resource establishes the importan...)

    2004
  • Teaching grades seven through ten

    (Advice from theologians about how to reach Sunday school ...)

    1980
  • Teaching about Lutheranism 1993
  • Teaching Grade One 1976
  • Teaching the Gospel Today 1988

• publication

  • Currents in Theology and Mission, Volume 21 Number 5, October 1994 1994

Politics

Democratic

Membership

Margaret A. Krych is a member of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, American Academy of Religion, Association for Doctor of Ministry Education (steering committee 2001-2004), Association Lutheran Teaching Theologians (discussion leader 2001-2002), Society for Research in Child Development.

• Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education , United States

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  American Academy of Religion , United States

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  Association for Doctor of Ministry Education , United States

• discussion leader 2001-2002

  Association of Lutheran Teaching Theologians , United States

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  Society for Research in Child Development , United States

Interests

• Music, travel

Connections

Margaret married Arden L. Krych, on September 4, 1971. The couple has two children: Meredyth A. Krych Appelbaum and David A.

Father:

Ernest Sanders

Mother:

Sybil Sanders

Spouse:

Arden L. Krych

Daughter:

Meredyth A. Krych Appelbaum

Son:

David A. Krych

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 194
  2010