17 Facts About Nancy Raabe

Nancy Elizabeth Miller Raabe was born on 1954 and is an American clergy member, author, and composer.

Nancy Raabe is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

Nancy Raabe graduated from Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa in music, in 1977.

Nancy Raabe completed two master's degrees in theology from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and doctoral coursework in musicology at Brandeis University, focusing on the works of Gustav Mahler.

Nancy Raabe served as a deacon at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, Wisconsin from 2014 to 2016.

Nancy Raabe is a chaplain for the members of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.

Nancy Raabe's compositions are included in the St Olaf Choirbook for Women and the St Olaf Choirbook for Men.

Every year, Nancy Raabe writes and shares an original tune for an ancient Christmas carol, including Carol of the Birds and The Clanging of Joybells.

Nancy Raabe's setting of Savior of the Nations, Come was featured at the 2019 Christmas Eve concert of the Duke University Chapel Choir, telecast on CBS.

Nancy Raabe's original arrangement of the Langston Hughes poem I Dream A World was a finalist for first prize at the 2010 Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival.

Nancy Raabe is the president of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.

Nancy Raabe is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Church Music at Concordia University Chicago.

Nancy Raabe's books are published by Concordia, MorningStar, and Lutheran University Press.

Nancy Raabe has written for the Faith Matters column of The Lansdale Reporter, and her monthly column Faith and Culture appeared in the Beloit Daily News.

Nancy Raabe is a 2022 Engle Preaching Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Nancy Raabe met and married William Alan Nancy Raabe in Milwaukee in 1989.

Nancy Raabe was a member of the Board of Directors of the Space One Eleven Arts Center in Birmingham, and of the Milton Community Foundation.