As Assistant Professor of Ethics and Public Theology, Professor Crena will be a central resource for Wesley’s Center for Public Theology and Community Engagement Institute—in addition to teaching the National Capital Experience for Seminarians.

Professor Lucila Crena joins Wesley’s faculty from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where she was the Managing Director of the “Theological Education between the Times” project and Instructor in Theology, Ethics, and Culture. Her commitment to innovation in theological education was honed as founding faculty for the new MA in Theology, Leadership, and Society program at Regent College (Vancouver, BC, Canada) and at Comunidad de Estudios Teológicos Interdisciplinarios (CETI, in San José, Costa Rica), where she was faculty liaison during the course redesign of CETI’s MA program for its North American accreditation process.

Professor Crena has also previously served as an instructor at Wesley, and her areas of academic interest include Christian Theology & Ethics; Moral, Social, and Political Thought; Latin American and Latinx Theologies/Ethics; Environmental Ethics; and Prophecy and Theopolitics.

Professor Creana holds a BA in Economics with highest honors from Emory University, a MTS from Regent College (Vancouver, Canada) and will defend her Ph.D. in Theology, Ethics, and Culture dissertation at the University of Virginia this Fall.