Bread for the World - Indiana

Rev. Art Simon is founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, the nation’s premier citizen’s lobby against hunger. He served for almost two decades as its chief executive officer and then directed the Washington Office of Christian Children’s Fund from 1992 to 1997. He was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church on New York’s Lower East Side, a densely populated low-income area, from 1961 to 1972.

His book, Bread for the World, won the national Religious Book Award and was described by the late Nobel Prize economist, Gunnar Myrdal, as a “clear and convincing” analysis of world hunger. His most recent book is Rediscovering the Lord’s Prayer (Augsburg, 2005).

Other books by Simon include

	Faces of Poverty
	Stuyvesant Town USA: Pattern for two Americas
	The Politics of World Hunger (with his brother, the late Sen. Paul Simon, as co-author)
	Christian Faith and Public Policy: No Grounds for Divorce
	Harvesting Peace: The Arms Race and Human Need
	Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World (with David Beckmann, his successor as president of Bread for the World)
	How Much Is Enough? Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture.

Simon has had articles featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth, The New Republic, The Christian Century, World Vision and other journals, including several dozen major newspapers.

Simon is an alumnus of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Dana College, Blair, Nebraska. He has received a number of awards and honorary degrees, including a Presidential Award for lifetime achievement against hunger.

He was born in Eugene, Oregon and is the father of four adult children.