Roy J. Enquist, Professor And Pastor, 83, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042304702_2.html

Roy J. Enquist Professor, Pastor

The Rev. Roy J. Enquist, 83, a Lutheran minister who became a college
professor and later held the position of canon at the National Cathedral,
died April 13 [2010] at the Washington Home hospice. He was a District
resident and had acute myeloid leukemia.

In 1980, Dr. Enquist was named director of a Washington-based educational
program of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1980. He
taught at the seminary until the early 1990s. Since 1995, he had been
teaching at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria.

In 2000, after a reciprocal arrangement between the Lutheran and Episcopal
churches, Dr. Enquist became a canon at the National Cathedral. In 2002 and
2003, he was the cathedral's canon ecumenist, responsible for interfaith
ministries.

Roy John Enquist was born in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, and served as a Japanese
language specialist in the Army in the 1940s. He graduated from Augustana
College in Rock Island, Ill., and in 1952 received a divinity degree from
the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He received a master's
degree in 1953 and doctoral degree in 1960 in theology from Union
Theological Seminary in New York.

Dr. Enquist was pastor of a church in Oregon and a campus minister at the
University of Chicago and later taught religion and ethics at Wittenberg
University in Springfield, Ohio, and Texas Lutheran University. In the
1970s, he also taught in South Africa and Namibia.

He wrote several books, including "The Courage to Believe: How Human Life
May Flourish" (2009), and was active in the Interfaith Conference of
Metropolitan Washington and the Center for Immigration Law and Practice.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Mia Brandt Enquist of the District;
and two sons, Krister Enquist of Milwaukee and Paul M. Enquist of Cary, N.C.

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Matt Schudel