James Solheim

Jim Solheim is a 1957 graduate of Lincoln High School.  He was a member of the student council and a photographer for the Lincoln Log.  He also participated in band and singing groups.  

Mr. Solheim attended Macalester College, graduated from St. Olaf College in 1961, and later received a Master of Divinity degree from Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.  

After seminary he went to work for the American Lutheran Church where he started the magazine, Event.  After receiving a Bush Foundation Fellowship, he earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 1975.  

Solheim then moved to New York City where he headed the communications and publications department for St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.  After a brief time serving as the head of journalism for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, he moved back to New York City as director of the Office of News and Information with the Episcopal Church Center.  Solheim’s writing career has led him to such places as Zimbabwe, Africa; Northern Ireland; the Middle East; Sweden; and Canterbury, England, where he has met with religious as well as world leaders.  

Jim Solheim has integrated his two great loves, religion and writing, to form a gratifying life of service:  “One insists on hope and the other insists on reality, and together they take seriously the tenacity of the human spirit.”