Tim Walz, Progressive Lutheran

Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska, in 1964, then raised in a nearby town. He was not raised a Lutheran, as the Walz family was Catholic. After graduating college from Chadron State in western Nebraska in 1989, Tim started teaching in Alliance, Nebraska, where he met his wife, Gwen Whipple. She had grown up Lutheran in Minnesota and attended college at Gustavus Adolphus, a thriving Lutheran college at the time. When they left Nebraska for Mankato, Minnesota, in 1996, the Tim Walz family was solidly Lutheran. At Mankato High School, Walz was a coach and the faculty advisor of the school’s first gay-straight alliance. Read Full Article »