Daniel A. Rodriguez Schlorff

Affiliations

Daniel Schlorff's vocational affiliations include memberships in several organization to which he is ethically bound for personal and professional standards. Among these organizations are the following: 

• Association of United Church Educators (AUCE)
• Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREdA)
• Society of Certified Senior Advisors (SCSA)
• Order of St. Luke, which is a multi-denominational religious order that seeks liturgical renewal in mainline Protestant churches.

Schlorff's academic affiliations include membership in the following:

• Religious Education Association (REA)
• Wesleyan Theological Society.

His musical affiliations include Yale Camerata (including its chamber choir, Pro Musica), Hamden Symphony Orchestra (section double bass, and vocal soloist in November 2011), and a professional organization for church musicians.

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Education

Daniel Schlorff is a seminary-formed religious educator trained in Biblical literature, pastoral ministry, pastoral counseling, church management, nonprofit fundraising, continental and Eastern philosophy, systematic and historical theology, New Testament Greek, church music, and professional ethics; in addition to being certified to address the health/financial/spiritual issues related to senior adulthood. 

He holds degrees from Meadville-Lombard Theological School and Olivet Nazarene University, and has been certified through the Society of Certified Senior Advisors. He currently studies at Hartford Seminary.

Schlorff's post-master's studies have included such unique centers of learning as Yale University's Yale Institute of Sacred Music (under Marguerite Brooks, with guest conducting from Dale Warland, Robert Kyr, Aaron Jay Kernis, Masaaki Suzuki and Simon Carrington); Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research (under the instruction of David Roozen); Clinical Pastoral Education at Stamford (CT) Hospital; an internship at Broadway United Methodist Church (Chicago, IL) under civil rights activist Greg Dell; and the Music Ministry collaborative through Garrett Seminary (Methodist), with units in liturgy and choral literature earned through Seabury-Western (Episcopal) and advanced instruction in vocal performance through Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music.

Also, in preparation for his work as Director of Resource Development for his family's business, he completed twelve graduate business credit hours in management, financial decision-making, globalization and microeconomics.  

Experience

Schlorff currently serves First Congregational Church of Stamford (CT) as Minister for Children, Youth and Families. In the past, he has served churches in various positions, including as Director of Religious Education, Youth Group Coordinator, Assistant Pastor, and Local Minister. 

In ministry, Schlorff has blessed same-sex and opposite-sex marriages, and preaches across denominational lines, bringing his message most frequently to churches that are United Church of Christ and United Methodist.

Schlorff has also served as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Sociology and Anthropology) and Carthage College (Religion) and in 2011 begins educational ministry and faith formation in a congregation with a 376-year-long tradition of Congregationalism and a consistent record of multicultural ministry.

In 2008, Schlorff was a featured panelist on diversity for the National Educators' Association meeting in the nation's capital.  He was also an elector for the 2008 presidential nominating convention.

In 2007, the Windy City Times honored Schlorff among the top "30 Under 30" in the Chicago area.

In 2006, Schlorff broke several glass ceilings in Illinois politics, which relaxed certain ballot access restrictions, and which cleared away obstacles for future political candidates who self-identify as either gay/lesbian or Asian American/Pacific Islander. 

In 2005, Schlorff graduated from Meadville Lombard Theological School with a master of arts in religion and co-chaired the editorial board of a nationally distributed environmental newspaper. 

In 2004, Schlorff helped lead the Chicago lay-led incarnation of the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry.  The Illinois Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry is now a statewide organization with congregational support.