Professor Pulse joined the CTS faculty in 2007. Following graduation from Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, with a BS in Elementary Education, he attended Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, completing his MDiv in 1984. His twenty-two years in the parish were served in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Burt, Iowa (9 ½ years) and Peace Lutheran, Bremerton, Washington (12 ½ years). He completed his STM from CTS while in the parish in 1990. Professor Pulse is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Durham, England, in the area of Old Testament, specifically, Concepts of the Afterlife in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism.