Meet Our Pastor
Dr. Kenneth Doka, Ph.D, is a graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and was ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1973. Throughout his career as a college professor, Pastor Doka served as a pastor in a series of congregations in New York and Connecticut as a vacancy pastor and as a worker-priest.
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Dr. Doka is a Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School
of the College of New Rochelle and Senior Vice-President
for grief programs of the Hospice Foundation of America.
Dr. Doka was a co-author of Dying and Death: Life & Living
and has authored or edited nearly 40 books and over 100
articles and chapters.
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Dr. Doka's newest book, The Edge of Forever, explores
extraordinary experiences around death and dying.
Dr. Doka is the editor of both Omega: The Journey of Death
and Dying and Journeys: A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement.
Dr. Doka has an ongoing blog on Psychology Today titled
Good Mourning.
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Pastor Doka has one son, a daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren who live near him in Poughkeepsie, New York. He enjoys swimming, skiing, and scuba diving.
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To learn more about Pastor Doka and his works, please visit his website: www.drkendoka.com
