Olaf M. Norlie

His dissertation was titled The Principles of Expressive Reading, a Study of the Human Voice.

[3][4] He served as a pastor in the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in Minnesota for 8 years.

For example, a list of his writings for 1935 alone includes over 30 articles and scholarly book reviews, many in the Norwegian language.

[7] For Norske lutherske menigheter i Amerika, Norlie and his staff collected information concerning thousands of Lutheran congregations and ministries throughout the United States and Canada, includes sections on each synod.

[9] The following is a sample from his Simplified New Testament, Romans 1:21-23: "And although men knew that God exists, yet they did not acknowledge Him as such, nor did they give Him thanks.

So they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for images in the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed beasts and reptiles."