Andrew Harnack

Dr. Andrew Harnack, retired Foundation Professor of Eastern Kentucky University, grew up and was ordained as a pastor in a conservative Lutheran church. Required to teach the inerrancy of Scriptures, he was forced to leave the ministry. Eventually experiencing divorce, the deaths of two children (one was murdered), he left the church, introduced himself to Buddhist meditation, and eventually re-entered the Divine Presence under the guidance of Christian contemplatives who introduced him to the...See more

Dr. Andrew Harnack, retired Foundation Professor of Eastern Kentucky University, grew up and was ordained as a pastor in a conservative Lutheran church. Required to teach the inerrancy of Scriptures, he was forced to leave the ministry. Eventually experiencing divorce, the deaths of two children (one was murdered), he left the church, introduced himself to Buddhist meditation, and eventually re-entered the Divine Presence under the guidance of Christian contemplatives who introduced him to the Church's great mystical tradition. Today Andy (as he known by all) is an active communicant in his local Georgia parish, a teacher of Centering Prayer, a missionary in Haiti, and an eighty-year-old enthusiast of Theology on Tap meetings where in a local bar he shares his unitive life in Christ with those experiencing PTCS (post-traumatic church syndrome). As a regular guy, Andy has come to live a down-to-earth Christian life, made joyful in the Church's mystical tradition. See less