Our guest today is John Hannah. He has served as a pastor in Royalton, Minnesota, and The Bronx, New York. He was a Chaplain in the U.S. Army for thirty years. He earned degrees from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University Divinity School and graduated from the U.S. Army War College.

Pastor Hannah has extensively researched the military service of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, calling him "the foremost of men who became Lutheran chaplains in WWII."  While Piepkorn would later be known among Lutherans as a notable professor and theologian of the 20th century, very little work has been done on Piepkorn's remarkable service as a U.S. Army chaplain during and after WWII.  Hannah's work sheds new light on this period of Peipkorn's work and helps us understand Lutheran chaplaincy.

John's book on Piepkorn is available through the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau at  
https://alpb.org/books/arthur-carl-piepkorn-chaplain-to-the-greatest-generation/ or at Amazon.com.

For other information on Arthur Carl Piepkorn, check out https://piepkorn.org/.

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  • Benjamin Phelps is a 2014 graduate from Martin Luther College with a Bachelor of Arts with a German emphasis. From there went on to graduate from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2018.
    Ben loves all things history and enjoys traveling. A descendant of over a dozen Lutheran pastors, Ben has an interest in his family roots, especially 19th-century Lutheranism, and has written several papers and journal articles on the topic. His 2018 thesis on Wyneken won the John Harrison Ness award and the Abdel Ross Wentz prize. He is also the recipient of two awards of commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute.
    Ben is currently a doctoral student in historical theology through Concordia Seminary's reduced residency program in St. Louis.