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John P. Trump

John P. Trump

Senior Pastor

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Columbia, South Carolina

John P. Trump is senior pastor of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and a board member of the Faith and Life Forum. His play Holy Odors premiered at Pacific Lutheran University in February 2002.

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Holy Odors

John P. Trump

No. 14 · Summer 2002

A one-act play by John P. Trump, premiered at Pacific Lutheran University, in which Maggie, a senior studying Reformation history in the library stacks, falls asleep over the Apology of Augsburg and dreams a 16th-century pickled-herring merchant—Herr Leonard Kopp, the man who smuggled Katie von Bora and eight other nuns out of the convent—into existence to argue that her call to archaeology (“digging up old bones”) is as holy as ordained ministry, with Luther’s joke that the church burns incense to insulate priests from the “holy odors” (not holy orders) of everyday life.