Born and educated in Connecticut, on completion of graduate school I moved to Pittsburgh with husband and three kids to teach Moral Theology at Duquesne University. Came to Washington in 1993 to teach at Wesley.

Education

Ph.D., Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Religious Ethics

M.A.R., Yale Divinity School

B.A., Wesleyan University

Research Interests

Bioethics and communities of faith

Virtue tradition

Historical development of Christian Ethics

Biblical ethics

Ethics of the practice of ministry

Publications

Minister as Moral Theologian  (2017)

Sustaining Ministry (2017)

What Were Made For: Christian Reflections on Love (2007)

Stewards of Life: Bioethics and Pastoral Care  (1998)

Relevant Classes Taught

Power, Sex and Money

Sources of Christian Moral Insight

Formative Influences in the Christian Moral Tradition

Ethical Dimensions of Ministry

Bioethics and Pastoral Care

The Moral Imagination