CovChurch.tv Posts Lecture on Nvyall’s Influence

CHICAGO, IL (October 11, 2013) – Scott Erickson’s lecture about the continuing impact David Nyvall has on the Evangelical Covenant Church and North Park University can now be seen online.

Erickson presented the lecture Thursday night at the school in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth Nyvall, an early denomination leader and founding president of North Park.

The lecture also explored the ways in which Nyvall’s character and resolve helped him withstand external pressures to conform to the religious and cultural landscape.

Erickson graduated from the university in 1989 and from North Park Theological Seminary in 1993. His doctoral dissertation at Uppsala University in Sweden focuses on Nyvall and draws on voluminous primary sources housed at the F. M. Johnson Archives and Special Collections at North Park.

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Terri Cunliffe

Terri Cunliffe is president and CEO of Covenant Retirement Communities, the nation’s fifth largest not-for-profit senior services provider. It is a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and serves more than 5,000 seniors in 15 continuing care retirement communities in 10 states. Visit Covenant Retirement Communities to learn more. Cunliffe writes monthly on seniors and health for the Covenant Companion online.
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