PTS Out and About

Feb. 13-15
CCO Jubilee Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Admissions Representative Attending

Feb. 15
Tucker Ferda
"Coffee and Conversation" series, Oakmont Presbyterian Church, Oakmont, Pa.
Teaching: "The Psalms as Scripts"

Feb. 19
AnneMarie Mingo
Moravian University, Lancaster, Pa.
Baxter Lecturer

Feb. 20-21
Scott Hagley
The Common Good Workshop Series, Westwood First Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio
Teaching: “Life Together: Spirituality for the Common Good”

Feb. 21
Donna Giver-Johnston
Sherwood Oaks Retirement Village, Cranberry Township, Pa.
Preaching

Feb. 21
Asa Lee, Danjuma Gibson, Advancement, Church Relations
Craig Lectureship, Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church, Naples. Fla.
Danjuma speaking: "Religious Violence, Spiritual Abuse and Trauma, and the Journey Towards the Beloved Community"; Advancement and Church Relations representatives attending

Feb. 22
Asa Lee
Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church, Naples. Fla.
Preaching

Feb. 22
Dan Frayer-Griggs
Oakmont Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Teaching Adult Education: "Psalms as Framework: Psalm 110 and the Shape of the New Testament"

Feb. 22–Mar. 29
Rafael Rodríguez
Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh Pa.
Teaching Adult Christian Education Series: "Won't I be Your Neighbor? Toward a Biblical Ethic of Hospitality"

Feb. 23-26
AnneMarie Mingo, Admissions Representative
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Chicago, Ill.
Attending

Feb. 26
Kenneth Woo
Barbour Library, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Delivering BookTalk: John Calvin, Refugee Theologian

March 1, 8, 15, 22
Kenneth Woo
Oakmont Presbyterian Church, Oakmont, Pa.
Teaching Adult Education Class

March 1
Edwin Chr. van Driel
Public Conversation on “Rethinking Christology for a New Missional Era,” St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK
Preaching

March 2
Edwin Chr. van Driel
St. Mellitus College, London, UK
Delivering Lecture: “Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology”

March 3
Edwin Chr. van Driel
Aberdeen Center for Protestant Theology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Delivering Spring Lecture: “The Incarnation as God’s First Intention: Retelling the Biblical Narrative in a Supralapsarian Christological Key”

March 4
Edwin Chr. van Driel
St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, UK
Paper Presentation: “The Incarnation as God’s First Intention: Retelling the Biblical Narrative in a Supralapsarian Christological Key”

March 6
Edwin Chr. van Driel
New College, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Teaching at Continuing Education Day for Church of Scotland Ministers: “Rethinking Christology for a New Missional Era” 

March 7-29
Donna Giver-Johnston
“Westminster Seminars: Thoughtful Christian Discussion,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Teaching

March 8-9
Ayana K. Teter
Ignite Conference, Presbyterian Foundation
Keynote Speaker: “Embracing the Economy of Grace”

March 8
Josie Hoover
Promised Land Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.
Preaching

March 8
Edwin Chr. van Driel
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, UK
Preaching

March 9
Edwin Chr. van Driel
Leicester Cathedral, Leicester, UK
Teaching at Continuing Education Day for Church of England Clergy: “Rethinking Christology for a New Missional Era” 

March 10
Edwin Chr. van Driel
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Presenting Paper: “The Incarnation as God’s First Intention: Retelling the Biblical Narrative in a Supralapsarian Christological Key”

March 12-14
Ryan Ramsey
Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Waco, Texas
Presenting: “‘There are lessons for us through these disappointments’:
Elizabeth A. Sexton, Disappointment’s Pedagogical Role, and Transpatial Ecclesiology"

March 18-21
Kenneth Woo
"Calvin and Creation" Colloquim, Calvin Studies Society, Beeson Divinity School and Birmingham Theological Seminary, Birmingham, Ala.
Chairing session: “How do you Solve a Problem like Barbarity? Examining Calvin and Early Jesuits on Accommodatio” 

March 19-21
AnneMarie Mingo
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, Charleston, S.C.
Attending

March 22, 29
Bala Khyllep
Christ Church UMC, Bethel Park, Pa.
Teaching: Faith and Justice Adult Education

March 25
L. Roger Owens
North Carolina Conference UMC (online)
Leading Webinar: “Praying Their Way: Welcoming Kids to a Life of Prayer”

March 26-28
Edwin Chr. van Driel
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.
Attending Executive Committee Meeting and Annual Meeting of the American Theological Society

March 27-28
Donna Giver-Johnston
Presbytery of West Virginia
Teaching Preaching course

April 10
Donna Giver-Johnston
Meeting of the Board of Distinguished Visitors to the President, Westminster College
Attending

April 10
Rafael Rodríguez
Stone-Campbell Journal Conference, Knoxville, Tenn.
Plenary Speaker

April 11
Rafael Rodríguez
Reassessing the Emergence of the Gospels: Genre, Media, Reception, Chicago, Ill.
Respondant

April 11
Leanna Fuller
North Hills Community Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Teaching Community Workshop on Pastoral Care

April 12
Edwin Chr. van Driel
Ecclesiology Colloquium, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, N.J.
Presenting: “Ordination to Word and Sacrament in a Post-Christian Era"

April 12-17
L. Roger Owens
Great Plains Five-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation, St. Benedict Center, Schuyler, Neb.
Delivering Lectures on Contemplative Prayer, Contemplative Living

April 16-18
Donna Giver-Johnston
Meeting of the Association of Doctor of Ministry Education, Baylor University, Texas
Attending

April 23-25
Scott Hagley
Academy of Religious Leadership Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minn.
Delivering Presidential Address: “Public Leadership and Prophetic Witness”

April 23-25
Ayana Teter
Academy of Religious Leadership Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minn.
Co-Presenting: "The Cross-Cultural Community of Faith: A Case Study”

April 23-25
Leanna Fuller
Academy of Religious Leadership Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minn.
Presenting

April 25
Jessica Anschutz
First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Erie, Pa.
Leading Workshop

May 3
Donna Giver-Johnston
Conference of the Czech Partnership Network, Sewickley Presbyterian Church
Preaching at Opening Worship Service

May 3
Leanna Fuller
Trinity United Church of Christ, Dorseyville, Pa.
Preaching

May 5
Bala Khyllep
Conference of the Czech Partnership Network Conference, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Leading a Workshop

June 8-12
Scott Hagley
International Consultation on Ecclesial Futures, Stockholm, Sweden
Attending

Old Testament

• Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Russaw)
• Book of Psalms (Creach)
• Extrabiblical Texts and What They Tell Us about Biblical Israel (Tappy)
• History and Literature of Second Temple Judaism (Ferda)
• Old Testament Prophets and Justice (Creach)
• Pentateuch (Russaw)
• Wisdom Literature (Creach)

New Testament

• Apocalyptic Literature (Frayer-Griggs)
• Epistle to the Romans (Rodríguez)
• Epistles to the Thessalonians (Rodríguez)
• Life and Thought of Paul (Rodríguez, Ferda)
• Life of Jesus and the Gospels (Ferda, Frayer-Griggs)
• Miracles of Jesus (Frayer-Griggs)
• Parables of Jesus (Hancock)
• Paul within Judaism (Rodríguez)
• New Testament Exegesis and History of Interpretation (Ferda)
• Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (Rodríguez, Ferda)

Biblical Interpretation and Study

• Bible Study in the Church and Theological Formation (Ferda)
• Biblical and Theological Library Research Methods (Russell)
• Biblical Interpretation for Christian Life and Practice (Hancock)
• Feminist and Womanist Biblical Interpretation (Russaw)
• History of Biblical Interpretation (Ferda, Woo)

Biblical Themes

• Bible and/in Popular Culture (Russaw)
• Bible and Ecology (Frayer-Griggs)
• Bible and Mission (Hagley)
• Call to Preach (Giver-Johnson)
• Disability and Healing in the Bible (Frayer-Griggs)
• Violence in the Bible (Creach)
• Women in the Bible (Russaw, Giver-Johnson)

History of the Bible

• Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Russaw)
• Biblical and Ancient Near East Archaeology (Tappy)
• Extrabiblical Texts and What They Tell Us about Biblical Israel (Tappy)
• History and Literature of Second Temple Judaism (Ferda)
• History of Biblical Interpretation (Ferda, Woo)
• History of the Ancient Near East and the Religions of Israel (Tappy)
• Northwest Semitic Languages (Creach, Tappy)
• The Tel Zayit Abecedary and the Origins of the Alphabet (Tappy)


 

Christian Origins

• Christianity from Late Antiquity to Present (Woo)
• History of the Ancient Near East and the Religions of Israel (Tappy)
• Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (Ferda, Rodríguez)

Christian Traditions and Movements

• African American Religious Experiences (Mingo)
• Anglican/Episcopal Tradition and Theology (Fischer)
• Asian-American History and Theological Perspectives (Woo)
• Christianity from Late Antiquity to Present (Woo)
• Christianity in Post-Christendom (Burgess, Hagley)
• Civil and Human Rights Struggles (Mingo)
• Decoloniality (Ramsey)
• Histories of Preaching (Carner)
• History of Black Oratory (Carner)
• History of African American Methodism (Hoeke, Mingo)
• History of Women Preachers in 19th Century America (Giver-Johnson)
• John Calvin and the Reformed Tradition (Woo)
• Methodist/Wesleyan History and Theology (Anschutz, Hoeke)
• Modern Latin American Christianity (Ramsey)
• Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Ramsey)
• The Barmen Declaration and the Confessing Church (Burgess)
• Theology of Martin Luther (Woo)
• World Christianity and Borderlands Religion (Ramsey)

Christian Theological Methods

• African American Contextual Theology (Lee, Mingo)
• Anglican/Episcopal Tradition and Theology (Fischer)
• Asian American History and Theological Perspectives (Woo)
• Black Theology and Womanism (Riggle Young, Mingo)
• Embodied Theology and Transformative Movement (Hoover)
• Ethics and Public Theology (Mingo, Woodard-Lehman)
• Feminist Theology (Riggle Young, Giver-Johnston)
• Liberation Theology (Riggle Young, Mingo)
• Methodist/Wesleyan History and Theology (Anschutz, Hoeke)
• Reformed Confessions (Burgess)

Topical Theology

• Epistemology (Carner)
• Eschatology (K. Smith)
• Embodied Theology and Transformative Movement (Hoover)
• Ethics and Public Theology (Mingo, Woodard-Lehman)
• Practical Theodicy: What Do Christians Do When Bad Things Happen? (Hancock)
• Practical Theology (Gibson)
• Race and Religion (Baker, Fischer, Mingo, D. Smith)
• Sacraments (Burgess)
• Spiritual Freedom (Burgess)

Notable Theologians

• Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Burgess)
• John Calvin and the Reformed Tradition (Woo)
• Theology of Karl Barth (Burgess)
• Theology of Martin Luther (Woo)

Christian Ethics

• Christian Perspectives on War and Peace (Burgess)
• End-of-Life Ethics (Hoeke)
• Ethics and Public Theology (Mingo, Woodard-Lehman)
• Faith and Public Life (Baker, Mingo, D. Smith)
• Moral Leadership (Mingo)
• Religious Social Ethics (Mingo)

Christian Mission

• Church Innovation for Our New Missional Era (Anschutz, Hagley)
• Congregational Mission and Leadership (Anschutz, Hagley, Khyllep, Owens)
• Cultural Humility and Cross-Cultural Communication (Khyllep)
• Evangelism (Hagley)
• Missions History (Hagley)
• Nurturing a Missional Mindset Through Global Worship Music (K. Smith)
• Short-term Mission (Khyllep)
• The Bible and Mission (Hagley)
• World Mission and Justice (Khyllep)

Justice, Activism, and Advocacy

• Anti-racism (Woodard-Lehman)
• Capitalism and Christian Witness (Hagley)
• Christian Perspectives on War and Peace (Burgess)
• Christianity and Nationalism (Burgess)
• Christianity, Race, and Class (Fischer, D. Smith)
• Civil and Human Rights Struggles (Mingo)
• Community Mental Health (Gibson)
• Criminal Justice (Woodard-Lehman)
• Cultural Humility and Cross-Cultural Communication (Khyllep)
• Decoloniality (Ramsey)
• Educational Diversity (Riggle Young)
• Faith and Public Life (D. Smith, Mingo)
• Information Literacy (Russell)
• John Calvin and Civil Disobedience (Hancock)
• Moral Leadership (Mingo)
• Popular Media and Constructions of Race and Gender (Mingo)
• Religion, Race, and Resistance: African American Religious Experiences (Mingo)
• Religion and Politics (Woodard-Lehman)
• Religion and Social Movements (Mingo, Riggle Young, D. Smith)
• Rhetoric of Social Movements (Carner)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)
• Women and Social Protest Movements (Mingo)

Pastoral Care

• Being Christian in a Post-Christian Era (Burgess, Hagley)
• Community Mental Health (Gibson)
• Conflict in Congregations (Fuller)
• Grief, Loss, and Recovery (Fuller, Gibson, Nolin)
• Family Systems Theory and Congregational Life (Fuller)
• Pastoral Care in Preaching and Worship (Giver-Johnson)
• Pastoral Ministry (Anschutz, Baker, Giver-Johnson)
• Practical Theodicy: What Do Christians Do When Bad Things Happen? (Hancock)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)

Preaching

• Art and Practice of Preaching (Homiletics) (Baker, Carner, Hancock, Lee, Giver-Johnson)
• Call to Preach (Giver-Johnson)
• History of African American Preaching and Sacred Proclimation (Carner)
• History of Folk Preaching (Carner)
• History of Women Preachers in 19th Century America (Giver-Johnson)
• Pastoral Care in Preaching and Worship (Giver-Johnson)
• Preaching in a Global Context (Khyllep)
• Roundtable Pulpit Bible Study (Giver-Johnson)

Worship and Liturgy

• Baptism and Eucharist (Burgess)
• Children in Worship (Giver-Johnson)
• Congregational Song, Corporate/Liturgical Prayer (K. Smith)
• Christian Worship and the Sacraments (Fischer)
• Christian Worship, Sacraments, and the Arts (Hancock)
• History of Christian Worship (Burgess)
• Liturgical Dance and Theory (Hoover)
• Pastoral Care in Preaching and Worship (Giver-Johnson)
• Taizé-style Worship (K. Smith)
• Teaching through Sacred Music (K. Smith)
• Writing and Reimagining Liturgy  (Giver-Johnston)
• Worship Through Embodied Prayer (Hoover)

Christian Formation and Spirituality

• Baptism and Eucharist (Burgess)
• Bible Study in the Church and Theological Formation (Ferda)
• Coaching and Spiritual Direction (Teter)
• Community and Systems Analysis for Christian Praxis (Gibson)
• Congregational Discernment (Anschutz, Owens)
• Contemplative Spirituality (Owens)
• Field Education (Washburn)
• Liturgical Dance as Spiritual Practice (Hoover)
• Spiritual Formation (Lee, Owens, Teter, Nolin)
• Spirituality for Christian Leadership (Owens)
• Theological Education (Lee, Giver-Johnson)
• Vocational Discernment and Call (Teter)

Leader Care and Clergy Burnout

• Coaching and Spiritual Direction (Teter)
• Congregational Discernment (Anschutz, Owens)
• Conflict in Congregations (Fuller)
• Contemplative Spirituality (Owens)
• Leadership (Anschutz, Baker)
• Spirituality for Christian Leadership (Owens)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)
• Vocational Discernment and Call (Teter)

Practical Tools for Ministry

• Art and Practice of Preaching (Homiletics) (Baker, Carner, Hancock, Lee, Giver-Johnson)
• Church Communications and Outreach (Anschutz, Washburn)
• Coaching and Spiritual Direction (Teter)
• Community and Systems Analysis for Christian Praxis (Gibson)
• Community Mental Health (Gibson)
• Conflict in Congregations (Fuller)
• Congregational Mission and Leadership (Anschutz, Hagley, Khyllep)
• Cultural Humility and Cross-Cultural Communication (Khyllep)
• Curriculum Writing (Washburn)
• Field Education (Washburn)
• Leadership (Baker)
• Moral Leadership (Mingo)
• Pastoral Ministry (Anschutz, Baker, Giver-Johnson)
• Practical Theodicy: What Do Christians Do When Bad Things Happen? (Hancock)
• Race, Racism, and Intercultural Competency Development (Teter)
• Roundtable Pulpit Bible Study (Giver-Johnson)
• Spirituality for Christian Leadership (Owens)
• Social Justice (Mingo, Woodard-Lehman)
• Stewardship (Cranston, Fischer)
• Teaching Through Sacred Music (K. Smith)
• Theological Research and Librarianship (Russell)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)

Addressing Contemporary Issues

• Anti-racism (Woodard-Lehman)
• Being Christian in a Post-Christian Era (Burgess, Hagley)
• Capitalism and Christian Witness (Hagley)
• Christian Perspectives on War and Peace (Burgess)
• Christianity, Race, and Class (Fischer, D. Smith)
• Christianity and Nationalism (Burgess)
• Christianity and U.S. Foreign Policy (D. Smith)
• Church and Politics in Russia and Ukraine (Burgess)
• Criminal Justice (Woodard-Lehman)
• Decoloniality (Ramsey)
• Popular Media and Constructions of Race and Gender (Mingo)
• Religion and Politics (Woodard-Lehman)
• Rhetoric of Social Movements (Carner)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)
• Women in Ministry (Giver-Johnson)

Revitalization and Adaptive Ministry

• Adaptive and Missional Leadership (Anschutz, Hagley, Owens)
• Developing New Faith Communities (Anschutz, Hagley, Teter)
• Community and Systems Analysis for Christian Praxis (Gibson)
• Congregational Discernment (Anschutz, Hagley, Owens, Teter)
• Congregational Revitalization (Anschutz, Hagley)
• Conflict in Congregations (Fuller)
• Small Church Ministry (Anschutz, Washburn)
• Spirituality for Christian Leadership (Owens)
• Vocational Discernment/Call (Teter)

Contextual Ministry

• Being Christian in a Post-Christian Era (Burgess, Hagley)
• Capitalism and American Christianity (Hagley)
• Christianity, Race, and Class (Fischer, D. Smith)
• Developing New Faith Communities (Anschutz, Hagley, Teter)
• Religion, Race, and Resistance: African American Religious Experiences (Mingo)
• Small Church Ministry (Washburn)
• Sociology of Urban Religion (D. Smith)
• Trauma: Individual Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Group Trauma (Gibson)

Jessica Anschutz
Director of the Center for Adaptive and Innovative Ministry
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412-924-1412

William A. Baker IV
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Continuing Education
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412-924-1385

John P. Burgess
James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology
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412-924-1430

Jennifer L. Carner
Director of the Preaching in a Post-Christian Age Initiative, Visiting Assistant Professor of Preaching
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412-924-1468

Carolyn Cranston
Director of Alumnae/i and Church Relations
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Jerome F. D. Creach
Robert C. Holland Professor of Old Testament
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412-924-1428

Tucker Ferda
Errett M. Grable Associate Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity
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412-924-1391

Charles L. Fischer III
Chief Advancement Officer
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412-924-1362

Dan Frayer-Griggs
Assistant Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Director of the Center for Writing and Learning Support 
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412-924-1454

Leanna K. Fuller
Joan Marshall Associate Professor of Pastoral Care
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412-924-1459

Danjuma Gibson
Professor of Practical Theology and Psychology
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Donna Giver-Johnston
Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program
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Scott J. Hagley
W. Don McClure Associate Professor of World Mission and Evangelism
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Angela Dienhart Hancock
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Howard C. Scharfe Associate Professor of Homiletics
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Erik Hoeke
Director of Continuing Education
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Josie Hoover
Director of Human Resources
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Bala Khyllep
Director of the World Mission Initiative
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Asa J. Lee
President and Professor of Theological Formation for Ministry
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AnneMarie Mingo
Associate Professor of Ethics, Culture, and Moral Leadership and Director of the Metro-Urban Institute
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Eric Nolin
Admissions Counselor
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L. Roger Owens
Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology
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Ryan Ramsey
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and World Christianity
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Rafael Rodríguez
Professor of New Testament
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Kimberly Russaw
Associate Professor of Old Testament
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412-924-1407

Mark C. Russell
Interim Co-director of the Barbour Library and Research and Instruction Librarian
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R. Drew Smith
Henry L. Hillman Professor of Urban Ministry
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Kendra Buckwalter Smith
Director of the Worship Program
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Ron E. Tappy
G. Albert Shoemaker Professor Emeritus of Bible and Archaeology and Director of The Zeitah Excavations
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Ayana Teter
Associate Dean for Students and Formation
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Edwin Chr. van Driel
Directors' Bicentennial Professor of Theology
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Sue Washburn
Interim Director of Field Education
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Kenneth Woo
P. C. Rossin Associate Professor of Church History and Historical Theology 
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Derek Woodard-Lehman
Director of the Miller Summer Youth Institute
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