Nathan Howard Yoder, STS, completed his doctoral work in theology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He currently serves as the pastor of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Maiden, North Carolina, and Dean of the Carolinas Mission District of the North American Lutheran Church. He is adjunct faculty for the North American Lutheran Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the NALC’s Commission on Theology and Doctrine and the Society of the Holy Trinity. Some of his recent publications include "Breaking the Promise of Lutheran Unity: Apostasy, Heresy, and Schism," in On Being the Church in These Precarious Times, edited by Carl E. Braaten, and "Pygmalion Redeemed: The Christ-Centered Imperative of Marriage," in The Lake Louise Commission: The Sacred Family.