Sven Erlandson

Sven Erlandson

Sven Erlandson 2011
Born Sven Eric Erlandson
(1967-09-17) September 17, 1967
Fargo, North Dakota
Occupation Writer, Spiritual Counselor
Nationality American
Period Contemporary
Website
www.badasscounseling.com

Sven Erlandson M.Div., B.A. (b. 1967) is a spiritual counselor and Wall Street performance coach, TV personality and author of five books on spirituality and culture in modern life. He is credited with coining the phrase "Spiritual but not religious"[1] and was the first theologian/author to name and delineate the concept and movement in his 2000 book by the same name.

Books by Sven Erlandson

A trained Lutheran pastor, emergency room chaplain and spiritual counselor, as well as former SERE-trained military and NCAA Head Coach for Strength and Conditioning, his books focus on the intersection of spirituality and the challenges of modern life, including politics, athletics, education, parenting, and relationships. His literary agent is Don Fehr, Senior Vice President, of Trident Media Group, NYC.[2]

List of books:

Family History

His father, LeRoy Arthur Erlandson (b. 1928) is the grandson of Swedish immigrants to the fertile farm country of the northwesternmost corner of Minnesota (Kittson County) along the Canadian border. Operating a 1500-acre farm and machinery production facility on the farm, during the Great Depression and World War II, Sven's grandfather, Ephraim 'Alric' Erlandson held a US Government Patent for his pesticide-delivery implement, the Plant Duster,[11] or 'Hood Duster'. LeRoy was the second-oldest son of four sons and one daughter to Alric and his Swedish wife, Walborg (Haglund) Erlandson. Three generations lived one roof, spoke primarily Swedish, and were critical in bringing electricity to Kittson County under the Rural Electrification Act (REA) in 1936 and growing food supplies for soldiers overseas, during the war. Of the five children in LeRoy's family, three sons became ordained Lutheran pastors in the old Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. An avowedly religious home, LeRoy's grandfather weekly read Martin Luther's sermons to the grandchildren in Swedish from Luther's Postilla, and Alric was known to have told new pastor's to his country parish, "Pastor, if I have to team up my horses at 6am in January of a Minnesota winter, I expect more than a 30-minute sermon."

LeRoy attended the Agricultural School of the University of Minnesota and also wrestled at the University of Minnesota before attending the Lutheran Bible Institute[12] (where he met Charlotte Johnson, whom he would later marry), and eventually graduating from Gustavus Adolphus College. He received his ministerial degree (Bachelor of Divinity/Master of Divinity) from the former Augustana Lutheran Seminary,[13] Rock Island, IL. He went on to serve Lutheran parishes in Kennedy (MN), Oberon (ND), Irving (TX), and Fridley (MN), before ending his ministerial career as a Protestant chaplain at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Minneapolis, MN.

Sven's mother, Charlotte Evangeline (Johnson) Erlandson (b. 1928) is the daughter of Victor and Ruth (Larson) Johnson, who were also grandchildren of Swedish immigrants. The fourth of six children, Charlotte grew up on a small farm in East Chain, Minnesota, along Minnesota's southern border with Iowa. She grew up attending a rural, one-room schoolhouse and was a childhood classmate of future US Vice President and Presidential candidate, Walter Mondale. Her mother, Ruth, broke from her rural parish after a dispute with the new pastor and went on to start her own church, shortly after the Great Depression. In her 70s, Ruth went on to live as the chapel proctor and wise old woman on the reservation of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. In her 80s, she served as the wise old woman-in-residence of a Jewish-Christian commune in Laporte, MN, formed by Arthur Katz.

Charlotte's two oldest brothers became ordained Lutheran pastors in the aforementioned Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. During and after raising her six children, Charlotte was a schoolteacher and later a Director of Christian Education at two churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She was also a published writer in the field of early childhood education[14] and was adjunct faculty at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. She also counseled and mentored numerous clergy and spouses of clergy throughout her career and well into her 80s.

Early Life

Into this rather significant spiritual-religious history, Sven was born in the Summer of Love in Fargo, ND. Though the nearest hospital was 30 miles away in Fargo, Sven's family lived in the 600-resident rural town of Lake Park, MN, where LeRoy was the pastor of a three-church parish. Born at 7:35am on a Sunday morning, his late arrival caused LeRoy to be late for pastoral duties at his first church and the nascency of Sven's reputation of creating headaches for the church and organized religion from, quite literally, the very day he was born.

References

  1. ↑ Cucinell, Pamela (2017-02-21). "Re-boot Your Psyche: Spiritual, Not Religious". InsightOasis.
  2. ↑ http://www.tridentmediagroup.com/agents/don-fehr
  3. ↑ Erlandson, Sven (2012). I Steal Wives: A Serial Adulterer Reveals the Real Reasons More and More "Happily Married" Women are Cheating. Cambridge: Black Bear Press. ASIN B008K9E2KC.
  4. ↑ Erlandson, Sven (2005). Badass Jesus. Fort Lauderdale: Llumina Press. ISBN 160594307X.
  5. ↑ Erlandson, Sven (2006). Rescuing God from Christianity. Aeon Publishing. ISBN 1595265848.
  6. ↑ Sherer, Michael L. (2005-04-01). "Four non-literal readings of Holy Scripture". Metro Lutheran.
  7. ↑ Erlandson, Sven (2005). The 7 Evangelical Myths. Fort Lauderdale: Llumina Press. ISBN 1595264892.
  8. ↑ Erlandson, Sven (2000). Spiritual but Not Religious: A Call to Religious Revolution in America. Bloomington: iUniverse. ISBN 059501108X.
  9. ↑ Kéri, Szabolcs; Kelemen, Oguz (2016). "Faith Unchanged: Spirituality, But Not Christian Beliefs and Attitudes, Is Altered in Newly Diagnosed Parkinson’s Disease". Religions. 7 (6): 73. ISSN 2077-1444. doi:10.3390/rel7060073.
  10. ↑ Fenrick, David (2005-07-01). "Book Review". Word & World. Luther Seminary.
  11. ↑ Erlandson, Ephraim Alric. "Plant Duster Patent". Google.com/patents. US Patent Office. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "Lutheran Bible Institute (LBI)". Placeography. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "Augustana College History". Augustana College. Augustana College. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  14. ↑ Erlandson, Charlotte (1991). "Affirmation of Baptism in the Midst of Lifelong Learning". Word and World. 11 (No 4). Retrieved 10 August 2017.
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