AmyJo Mattheis humorously and honestly challenges the doctrine that humans are naturally sinful and bad, claiming the unimaginable idea that the world can change with one sentence -- I am naturally good and have the power in me to make more good for me and others.
AmyJo Mattheis earned her Masters of Divinity from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She interned in Jerusalem, Israel and Ramallah, West Bank. She traveled and worked in East Africa while completing her undergraduate degree in History and Economics focused in International Development. She served in the United States Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa, worked as Director of Student Activities at a northwest university and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
in the Clinton Administration. She was an ordained Lutheran Pastor for over ten years in New York City and in Stockton, California. She founded and led a local non-profit, Way of Compassion Community, and has taught in the Pacific Seminar program at Pacific for seven years. Ms. Mattheis has led retreats, counseled hundreds of people, and is an accomplished speaker.
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