Dan Boone is a Nazarene minister, author, and university president.

Biography

Dan Boone is a descendant of the frontiersman

Daniel Boone Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the we ...

. He has served as the senior pastor of North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene in

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, Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene in

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and College Church of the Nazarene in

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, which serves

Olivet Nazarene University Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) is a private Nazarene university in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Named for its founding location, Olivet, Illinois, ONU was originally established as a grammar school in east-central Illinois in 1907. In the late 1930 ...

, as well as the Kankakee-

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-Bourbonnais,

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community. In 2005, Dan Boone was elected to serve as the 11th president of

Trevecca Nazarene University Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Nazarene liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1901. History TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary ...

. He finished his first term as President in 2009 and was elected to a second four-year term in the Spring of 2009. Having seen his school's application to join the NCAA rejected in 2010, he announced they would reapply in 2011. Dan Boone earned his

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from

McCormick Theological Seminary McCormick Theological Seminary is a private Presbyterian seminary in Chicago, Illinois. It shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, bordering the campus of the University of Chicago. A letter of intent was signed on May 5 ...

. He is also a 1977 graduate of

Nazarene Theological Seminary Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) is a Nazarene seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. The seminary was established by the Eleventh General Assembly in June 1944 and started its first school year in 1945 with 61 students. It moved to its current ...

and a 1974 graduate of Trevecca Nazarene University. In 2009 he was selected to be part of the 34th Leadership Nashville class. On March 24, 2017, Trevecca announced a partnership wit
Eastern Nazarene College
in Quincy, Mass., which includes Boone serving as president of both institutions while they worked toward a merger. Boone served as president-elect of ENC until 2018. In March 2018, the merger process was discontinued and Boone stepped away from his ENC role as required by Trevecca's accrediting association.

Author

The following books have been written by Dan Boone. They were all published by

Nazarene Publishing House Nazarene Publishing House (NPH), the publishing arm of the Church of the Nazarene, is the world's largest publisher of Wesleyan-Holiness literature. NPH was located on Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1912 until its move in February ...

/Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City. * ''Answers for Chicken Little-A No-Nonsense Look at the Book of Revelation'' (2006) * ''Dirty Hands, Pure Hearts: Sermons and Conversations with Holiness Preachers '' (2006) Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City * ''The Worship Plot: Finding Unity in Our Common Story'' (2007) * ''Seven Deadly Sins: The Uncomfortable Truth'' (2008) * ''Preaching The Story That Shapes Us'' (2008) * ''Dancing With the Law: The Ten Commandments'' (2010) * ''A Charitable Discourse: Talking About The Things That Divide Us'' (2011) * ''The Lord's Prayer: Imagine It Answered'' (October 1, 2012); Dust Jacket Press * ''The Church in Exile: Interpreting Where We Are'' (October 2, 2012); Dust Jacket Press * ''The Dark Side of God'' (2013); Elevate Entertainment LLC. * ''The Way We Work: How Faith Makes a Difference on the Job'' (July 2014); Beacon Hill Press/Nazarene Publishing House * ''Human Sexuality: A Primer for Christians'' (Trevecca Press, 2015)

References

External links

DanBoone.me

Trevecca Nazarene University presidential biography

Nazarene Theological Seminary Alumni BIO
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