Schedule
11 a.m. Preaching at Service of Holy Communion, Chapel of the Incarnation
Noon-12:30 p.m. Lunch forum, Dining Room C
12:30-1:30 p.m. Book signing, Commons area (by bookstore)
Heidi Neumark is an author, speaker and Lutheran pastor who has served congregations in the South Bronx and presently in Manhattan. Her experiences in congregational and community organizing in the Bronx led to a highly acclaimed book, Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx, winner of the 2004 Wilbur Award given by the Religion Communicators Council. She has chapters and sermons in numerous other books and writes regularly for the Christian Century and other journals. In her present position, Pastor Neumark also serves as the executive director of a shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth. She holds an honorary doctorate of divinity from Muhlenberg College. She is married, has two adult children and lives in New York City.
Heidi B. Neumark’s newest book, Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory and Faith, takes readers on Neumark’s journey into an unimagined past with life-changing repercussions for her future. Personal narrative, social history, theology and Biblical reflection are interwoven in a story that challenges the author’s identity, vocation and her theology. As this Lutheran pastor is shocked to uncover her Jewish roots and successive family loss and trauma through the Holocaust, readers are invited to consider for themselves how secrets, closeted identities and silence can shape their lives.