Berkley Center

Amy Ziettlow is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has served in congregational ministry in southern Illinois, Baton Rouge and the New Orleans area, including in the upheavals after Hurricane Katrina, and currently serves Holy Cross Lutheran in Decatur, Illinois. She is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values in New York City, where she is co-investigator of a study funded by the Lilly Endowment titled “Homeward Bound: How We Live When Our Parents Die.” With Naomi Cahn she is co-editing a forthcoming symposium in the Journal of Law and Religion on the Honor Commandment based on their joint work on the Homeward Bound project. Her recent publications include Seniors in Casino Land (2014) and Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith: Challenging Congregations to Confront Family Change (2013, with Elizabeth Marquardt and Charles E. Stokes).