Eric Clapp

Guest blogger

Eric Clapp is a husband, writer, coffee aficionado, and Lutheran pastor who spends most of his time thinking about the intersection of faith and culture.

He graduated from Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

He lives along the Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa and is a pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in nearby Camanche, IA.He blogs here.

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