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About Our SeminaryWesley Theological Seminary(a United Methodist seminary)The Rev. Dr. David McAllister-Wilson, President A Mission-Shaped Seminary Wesley is a place of mission-hearted people and mission-minded scholarship for a mission-centered church. Located in Washington, D.C., we are one of the largest and the most diverse semina [...] |
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Amy G. OdenAmy Oden is member of University United Methodist Church in College Park, MD. She enjoys music and reading historical novels. Pursuing her interests in the history of Christianity and hospitality, she has recently finished a book project entitled God's Welcome: Hospitality for a Gospel-Hungry World. [...] |
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Barbara G. GreenIn addition to being CCTPP’s executive director, Barbara Green is also a lecturer in Theology and Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty of Wesley Theological Seminary, she served as a policy advocate in the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church (1983-1998) and as a National Council of Churches liaison to the East German Federation of Protestant Churches, based in Berlin (1977-1982). She is particularly interested in ethics and public policy and specializes i [...] |
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Beverly E. MitchellBeverly Mitchell is a member of the American Baptist Church. She has been with Wesley Theological Seminary since 1998, specializing in studies of systematic theology, church history and human rights. She has authored Black Abolitionism: A Quest For Human Dignity (Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion), a book that explores black abolitionism and the theology of human dignity in the context of slavery and the Holocaust. [...] |
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Bill FaupelBill Faupel is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church of the USA. Prior to joining Wesley Theological Seminary in 2004 he served on the faculty of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore Kentucky for thirty-five years. He specializes in 19th and 20th century church history. His current project is a biography of John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion. [...] |
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Biography of Wesley's PresidentThe Reverend Dr. David McAllister-Wilson is president of Wesley Theological Seminary. He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from California State University, Northridge, in 1983. He earned his Master of Divinity degree in 1988 and Doctor of Ministry degree in 2001 from Wesley. An ordained elder i [...] |
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Bruce C. BirchA native of Kansas, Bruce Birch attends the United Methodist Church and is an ordained member of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference. He has been a delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conferences of that denomination and served on its General Board of Church and Society. He lectured and consulted in a wide range of ecumenical events and taught at Yale, Iowa Wesleyan College and Erskine College before coming to Wesley in 1971. He serves on the council of the Society of Biblical Literatu [...] |
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Catherine KapikianCatherine Kapikian is an acclaimed and commissioned artist. Her work, inclusive of paraments, vestments, banners, tapestries, and fiber with wood installations can be seen in a variety of worship spaces inclusive of every major Christian denomination, interfaith military chapels, and synagogues. Many of her large-format works, like needlepoint tapestries behind altars, are designed by her and fabricated by members of the community in what she calls “participatory aesthetics.” In this [...] |
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Claudia BarnesClaudia Barnes has a background in classical Greek as well as koine Greek, the language of the New Testament. She also has worked for several years for the Lab School of Washington as a tutor and teacher of students with learning disabilities. She follows a multi-sensory approach in her teaching of Greek at Wesley and teach the students various learning and memory strategies as they study the language. A current project of hers is to explore ways to further serve our Presbyt [...] |
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Contact UsWesley Theological Seminary4500 Massachusetts Ave NWWashington, DC 20016Phone: (202) 885-8600 Fax: (202) 885-8605 Hours of OperationMonday-Friday 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m.Closed Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Business and Registrar Office hours are extended to 6:30 pm during the first week of each new semester (except on Friday). For the Spring 20 [...] |
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David HopkinsDavid Hopkins was raised in northern New Jersey where he was a member of the Community Church of Mountain Lakes (United Church of Christ). He is a member of the yoked UCC and Presbyterian Rockville United Church, is an Elder, and has served as President of the Church Council. David has taught and preached extensively throughout the churches of the region. Alongside familial responsibilities, his avocations include tennis, wood working, nature study, and collecting apothecary glassware. Davi [...] |
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Deborah SokoloveDeborah Sokolove is a member of Seekers Church, a Christian Community in the Tradition of Church of the Saviour. She specializes in the intersection of liturgy, religion and the arts. She is a Book Review Editor for ARTS, the publication of the Society for Art in Religious and Theological Studies and is currently writing an as-yet-untitled book on art and the church. [...] |
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Denise Dombkowski HopkinsA native of upstate New York, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins is a member of the UCC church. She has twice studied at the Ecumenical Instutute for Theological Studies in the West Bank and has received two research awards: the Yale Theological Renewal Award (2006-2007) and the ATS Research Grant (2007-2008). Her academic interests include Psalms and Second Temple Judaism. Denise is collaborating with Michael Koppel in writing a book on the Hebrew Bible and Pasto [...] |
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Deryl DavisDeryl Davis is a Washington-based writer, actor, and director involved in ministry at Wesley Theological Seminary and nearby Washington National Cathedral.Deryl passionately believes in the reconciling power of theatre and in its role as a transformative agent in the church. From biblical improvisation to liturgical drama, playwriting, and production of full-length plays, Deryl strives to provide students at Wesley with the opportunity to explore both the holiness of drama and its manifold [...] |
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Eileen GuentherEileen Guenther is associate professor of church music at Wesley Theological Seminary. She teaches music and worship courses, directs the chapel choir, co-directs the chapel services and serves as cirector of the summer school program.Dr. Guenther has served as visiting lecturer at Africa University in Zimbabwe. In May 2007 she was part of the Global Praise team that taught music and worship in Uganda for representatives from the five countries that make up the East Africa Confere [...] |
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Ellis Leif LarsenEllis Larsen is a member of the United Methodist Church and has served as the Director of Wesley's Course of Study School since 1979. In addition to this role, he has also served the seminary community as Profressor of Church Administration (1976-2001) and Assistant Academic Dean (1991-1998). Dr. Larsen spends time each year teaching, researching pastoral needs and cooperating in the development of theological education for local pastors across the United States, Europe [...] |
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Employment OpportunitiesWesley Theological SeminaryInterested in applying for a staff position at Wesley Theological Seminary? Please send your cover letter and resume by e-mail to Barbara Donelson, Director of Human Resources at hr@wesleyseminary.edu. Please specify the position for which you are applying (see below for opportunities). Hard copies can be sent via mail to - Barbara Donelson, Director of Human Resources, [...] |
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Fred Douglas Smith Jr.Fred Smith is an elder in the United Methodist Church. He served as the Associate Director of Interfaith Programs for the Carter Center in Atlanta before becoming Senior Pastor of Fellowship UMC and Director of the Center of Hope (2000-2005). He specializes in the areas of prophetic religious education, violence in black communities, substance abuse prevention, at-risk youth, and faith and health. His current projects include:Writing "The Beloved Community: [...] |
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GovernanceWesley Theological Seminary Board of Governors 2007 - 2008Steven C. Lambert, Esq., ChairThe Reverend Dr. Jonathan BakerTamra K. BentsenNora L. CameronThe Reverend Kathleene B. CardCarol Thompson ColeThe Honorable John H. DaltonBetty J. ForbesBrenda Girton-Mitchell, Esq.The Reverend Dr. H. Beecher HicksStephen A. HopkinsJohnny M. Howard, Esq. The Reverend Dr. C. A [...] |
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Jessicah DuckworthJessica Duckworth is an ordained member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod) and has served as Associate Pastor in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Doylestown, Pennsylvania since 2005. Prior to joining the Wesley faculty, she taught at Princeton Theological Seminary and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She serves on the Catechumenate Task Force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. [...] |
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Joseph TortoriciDuring a thirty year period Joe Tortorici engaged in pastoral ministry in urban Detroit, counseling ministry in rural Idaho, administration and graduate teaching at Providence College in RI, and directed a field education program of Catholic seminary students in Washington, DC. Along the way he earned two graduate degrees at Michigan State University in the area of family studies. His current project is sabbatical research on the value of cross-cultural immersions in seminary curri [...] |
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Lewis ParksLew Parks is a member of the Central Pennsylvania UMC Annual Conference where he chairs the Episcopacy Committee and serves on the Board of Ordained Ministry. Prior to joining the faculty of Wesley Theological Seminary in 1998, he was the pastoral leader of congregations throughout Central Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1995 and served as superintendent of the Chambersburg District. He is particularly interested in the theology behind effective ministry and congregational vitality, church [...] |
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Lovett H. Weems, Jr.Lovett Weems, the executive director of the G. Douglass Lewis Center for Church Leadership, is the preeminent expert on leadership practice and theory in the United Methodist denomination. He is respected as a pastor, educator, author, and researcher. [...] |
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Lucy Lind HoganWhat will, what should, what can preaching look like in the 21st century? This is an exciting and challenging time for preachers. The diversity of their listeners, the place of the church in the broader culture, and the opportunities and challenges presented by technology are causing us to rethink and re-envision preaching. To this important conversation Dr. Hogan brings a rich and varied background. She is interested in creativity and the creative process. Having been a painter and g [...] |
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Mary Clark MoschellaMary Moschella is a member of the Bethesda United Church of Christ and has been in full pastoral standing in the UCC since 1984. She pastored in UCC churches in Massachusetts for 13 years prior to answering the call to teach and to write. She also studied and practiced clinical pastoral counseling at the Christian Counseling Service in Redlands, California, from 1998-2000, before coming to Wesley in 2001. An interest in American social history undergirds her approach to past [...] |
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Michael S. KoppelMichael Koppel is a Member of National Capital Presbytery and a Minister of Word and Sacrament with Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In conjunction with teaching pastoral counseling courses at Wesley Theological Seminary, Mr. Koppel acts as a Faculty Advisor to the Presbyterian Student Fellowship. His ordained pastoral service includes ministry positions as campus minister, local church pastor, hospice chaplain, and clinical pastoral supervisor in California, Ohio, and New York. Curr [...] |
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Mission and Ministry StatementMission The mission of Wesley Theological Seminary is to prepare persons for Christian ministry, to foster theological scholarship, and to provide leadership on issues facing the church and the world. Our aim is to nourish a critical understanding of Christian faith, cultivate disciplined spiritual lives, and promote a just and compassionate engagement in the mission of the church to the world.Ministry StatementWesley is a graduate theological school of The United Met [...] |
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R. Kendall SoulenKendall Soulen is a member of the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Besides being interested in 'all things theological', he is an old-time banjo and fiddle player. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Name of God in Trinitarian Perspective. [...] |
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Sathianathan ClarkeSathi Clarke is a member of the Episcopal Church of South India. In his diverse career as an educator, he has served as Professor of Theology in Bangalore, India for nine years and as a visiting Contextual Theologian from Asia at Harvard University. In his practice, Dr. Clarke has cultivated specialties in contextual theology, constructive global theology, and theology of religions. His current projects include:World Christianity: Theological Method and Themes;Tales of Je [...] |
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Scott Thomas KiskerScott Kisker is a member of the First United Methodist Church in Hyattsville, MD and an elder in the Iowa Annual Conference. Prior to coming to Wesley Theological Seminary, he served as the director of the Charles Wesley Heritage Centre in Bristol, UK and as associate pastor for the American Protestant Church in Bonn, Germany. As James Cecil Logan Chair in Evangelism and Wesley Studies, he specilizes in Wesley studies and pietist studies. His current projects include books on t [...] |
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Sharon H. RingeSharon Ringe is a member of Rockville United Church and an ordained minister in the UCC. She specializes in the Gospels, feminist hermeneutics, post-colonial criticism, and Latino/a and Latin American liberation theology.While teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary since 1991, she has also served as an adjunct professor at Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana. Prior to this time, she was a Professor of New Testament at Methodist Theological School in Ohio and Assista [...] |
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Shaun A. CaseyShaun Casey's research interests include the ethics of war and peace, the role of religion in presidential politics, public theology, the role of the Church in fighting global poverty, and the problem of theodicy as it relates to the Red Sox. He serves as a consultant to the Project on Religion and Post Conflict Reconstruction at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His current projects include writing a book on the role of religion in the 1960 presidential el [...] |
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Sondra Ely WheelerSondra Wheeler is a member of the United Methodist Church. Within the broad discipline of Christian ethics, she specializes in theological bioethics, biblical ethics, virtue ethics and the historical roots of Christian moral theology. Her current projects include:a book retrieving the Christian tradition on love for a general audience; and a manuscript on the moral character of the relationship between parents and children. [...] |
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Susan WillhauckSusan Willhauck is a Deacon in Full Connection with the United Methodist Church Virginia Annual Conference and she attends Burke United Methodist Church in Virginia. She specializes in Christian Formation, pedagogy, women's leadership, ministry with children and youth, child advocacy and lay education. Her current projects include: A book on theological themes in faith development; Developing a new course (a teaching practicum); Collaborating on another book w [...] |
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Welcome Students!Wesley welcomes 125 new students and hundreds of returning students to campus. [...] |
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Youtha Hardman-CromwellYoutha Hardman-Cromwell is a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria District. She specializes in contextual education and homiletics and brings this passion to bear through her leadership in Wesley Theological Seminary's Practice for Ministry and Mission program. Her current projects include manuscripts on:Images in Sermons;19th Century African American Preaching; andThe Meaning of Marriage in our Religious Tradition.< [...] |
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