Faculty News
You asked, we listened. Last year, when we analyzed the results of our Alumni/ae, Students, and Friends Survey, we found that folks really want to know more about what our faculty are up to. Here are some recent accomplishments of some of our incredible faculty members.
Professor Duane Bidwell was published in The Sage Handbook of Constructionist Practices, an edited volume, with a chapter titled “Social Construction, Practical Theology, and the Practices of Religious Communities.” Dr. Bidwell also appeared on the Japanese program “Carving the Divine TV” with Yujiro Seki in an episode titled “Religious Multiplicity: Can We Be Buddhist and Christian at the Same Time?
Professor Philip Clayton has co-edited a new book titled The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crisis. The book offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better. Learn more at https://thenewpossible.org/
Professor Andrew Dreitcer was recently featured in the short film created by Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Dr. Matthew S. Goodman, titled “On the Path: Meditation, Spirituality, and the Dark Night of the Soul”. Dr. Dreitcer defined “dark night” for the film.
Professor Namjoong Kim wrote a chapter titled “Preaching from the Perspective of Asian American Theology” for the edited volume Preaching the Manifold Grace of God: Theologies of Preaching in the Early Twenty-First Century Volume 2, as well as “Worship after the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Korean Contexts” for the Institute for Biblical Preaching in Seoul.
Dean of Faculty and Professor Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for her original contributions to historical scholarship and was also elected by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church to serve as the sixth Editor of Anglican and Episcopal History Journal.
Professor Frank Rogers has written several journal articles, including “Searching for Beauty: Art in the Midst of the Ugly” for Insights, “Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction: Internal Family Systems as a Resource for Spiritual Companions” for Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, and “Faithful Presence within the Abyss: Seven Days of Devotions” for The Upper Room Disciplines 2020: Weavings Honorary Edition. He was also featured in a podcast with Claire Mckeever-Burgett of Upper Room’s Academy for Spiritual Formation, titled “Holy and Healing: Conversations with Academy Leaders in the Time of Pandemic,” last April. Finally, not to be deterred by a global pandemic, Dr. Rogers led five workshops on Compassion in the last half of 2020.
Professor Marvin Sweeney’s recent publications include a number of chapters in edited volumes, such as “The Distinctive Roles of the Prophets” in The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books, “Ezekiel, Historical Background” in The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, “The Book of the Twelve and Kingship” in The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, “Reading Isaiah after the Shoah” in The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah, “Deuteronomy and the Reigns of Kings Hezekiah and Josiah” in The Oxford Handbook of Deuteronomy, “Why Moses was Barred from the Land of Israel: A Reassessment of Numbers 20 In Literary Context” in Seeking Wisdom’s Depths and Torah’s Heights: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Balentine, and “Eli, A High Priest Thrown Under the Wheels of the Ox Cart” in Characters and Characterization in Samuel and Kings. Additionally, last December, Dr. Sweeney was an invited speaker at a Symposium on Asian Biblical Theology at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan, Taiwan, where he lectured on “Asian Biblical Theology and Filial Piety (Xiao).”