Rev. Dr. Maria E. Erling teaches history and guides Ministerial Leadership placements. Kirsi Stjerna, a native of Finland, is currently Professor of Lutheran History and Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California. Kirsi I. Stjerna is First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University, Berkeley, a Core Doctoral Faculty member at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Docent in Helsinki University, Finland. She has authored several books, including Women and the Reformation and Luther, The Bible and the Jewish People (with Brooks Schramm), and Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith. She is one of three general editors of the six-volume The Annotated Luther (Fortress Press).
