Mark E. Braun

Mark E. Braun graduated from Northwestern Preparatory School in 1969 and Northwestern College in 1974, both in Watertown, Wisconsin. He completed a Master of Divinity in 1978 and a Master of Sacred Theology in 1992, both from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin. He earned a Ph.D. in historical theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, in 2000. He served as a vicar in Anchorage, Alaska, in summer 1975 and again during the 1976–1977 school year. He was assigned in 1978 as an assistant pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, St. Joseph, Michigan. In 1983, he accepted a call to be pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Sparta, Wisconsin. In 1987, Wisconsin Lutheran College, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, called him to teach biblical studies and American and non-Christian religions. He retired in 2021. He and his wife, Sue, are blessed with four children—Matt (Holly) Braun, Jeremy (Sarah) Braun, Katie (Mike Kemp), and Jacob (Maria) Guenther—and nine grandchildren.