Jeff Conklin-Miller

Dr. Conklin-Miller is an Ordained Elder in the California-Pacific Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church and has served as a pastor, professor, and leader in theological education in The United Methodist Church and in the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

Dr. Conklin-Miller completed his doctoral studies at Duke University in the areas of theology and ethics, evangelism and mission, and Wesleyan and Methodist studies. His research draws focus to the significance of Christian formation and theological education in the practices of ecclesial innovation and evangelistic witness in Methodist tradition.

His book, Leaning Both Ways at Once: Methodist Evangelistic Mission Between Church and World was released in 2020, and he has published articles and chapters in the Wesleyan Theological Journal, The Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, and in edited collections, including The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism, E. Stanley Jones and Sharing the Good News in a Pluralistic Culture, and Generation Rising: A Future with Hope for the United Methodist Church. Dr. Conklin-Miller has held faculty appointments at Duke Divinity School and Cliff College (United Kingdom) and has served in leadership as the Vice-Principal (Mission) at Cliff, and as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs (Chief Academic Officer) at Duke. At Duke Divinity School, he served as the Director of the Methodist House of Studies and as a Fellow in the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition. He is currently the Editor of Witness: The Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education and serves on the executive team of the association of Methodist Theological Schools in Europe (MTSE).

Education

BA, University of California Riverside

MDiv, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

ThD, Duke University