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With IC students Sami and Jenna at a conference in 2005
Contents of this Page
Courses Taught
At
Religion 101 – Introduction to the Bible
Religion 104 – Questions of Christianity
Religion 130 – First Year Seminar: Vocation: God & Work, Fall 2005
Religion 203 - The Christian Tradition
Religion 213 – Contemporary Religious Issues (a variable topic seminar)
Religion 260 – Religion and Literature
Religion 265 – God, Suffering, and Evil (cross-listed with philosophy)
Religion 304 – Philosophy of Religion (cross-listed with philosophy)
Religion 370 – Process Theology and Philosophy (cross-listed with philosophy)
Religion 371 – Women, Race, and Theology (a gender and women’s studies course)
Religion 376 – Sociology of Religion (team-taught w/Dr. Kelly Dagan, cross-listed with sociology)
Religion 397 – Women in Islam
Religion 401 – Senior Seminar: Religion, War, and Peace, Spring 2005
GWS 101 – Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
GWS 250 – Crisis Intervention Training (in partnership with the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault)
(for
descriptions of any of these courses, click here )
At Valparaiso University 2000 – 2002:
Foundations and Development of Christian Thought
The Christian Tradition: Doubt, Belief, Disbelief
Faith and Fiction
Women, Race, and Theology
Trends in 20th Century Theology
Liberation Theologies
My Sites
Illinois College Department of Religion and Philosophy
Illinois College Gender and Women’s Studies Program
Theological graffiti – for explanation, enroll in Process Theology!
http://www2.ic.edu/gws/
Illinois College Moodle course websites
With Paul Rusesabagina, subject of film Hotel
PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:
Books:
§ Feminism and Christianity: Questions, Answers, and Options. Book contract secured with Cascade Books. Forthcoming, 2009.
§
Two
Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly
as Political Theologians. (
§
Coram
Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God. (
Articles, Chapters, etc.
§ “Is This Going to be on the Test? Religion in the ’08 Election” Editorial, Political Theology 9:4 (October 2008)
§
“Imago Dei
and Coram Mundo: Theological Anthropology for Human Life
Today, or The World is the Woman.” Journal
of Lutheran Ethics 8:1 (January 2008)
Will also appear in Probing
Theological Foundations in an Age of Biological Intervention. (
§
“The Rhetoric of Evil and Eradicating
Terrorism,” In Religion,
Terror, and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives, edited by Bryan
Rennie and Philip L. Tite. (
§ “Certainty, Heaven, and Kittens.” The Lutheran, November 2007.
§
“The Future of the Presidency: What
§ “Two Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians?” Political Theology 7:4 (October 2006).
§ “Confessing Christ in a World of Violence.” Collaborative statement with Richard B. Hays, Duke Divinity School, George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Richard V. Pierard, Gordon College, Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Jim Wallis, Sojourners. Released to and covered by national media October 2004. Published in God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, by Jim Wallis (Harper San Francisco, 2005). Text also available at Sojourners
§ “A Theological Response to ‘The Case for a Preemptive Strike.’” Political Theology 5:2 (March 2004).
§ “A Religious Response Veiled in a Presidential Address.” Political Theology 5:1 (January 2004).
§ “Four Fictions and their Truths.” Dialog: a Journal of Theology 42:2 (Summer 2003).
§
“From a Babylonian Captivity to the Otherworld: Martin Luther and Mary Daly.” Currents in Theology and
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Click here for a
full list of scholarly presentations
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
Click
here for a list of additional
conferences attended
BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED:
Click here for a full list of Book Reviews published
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Member, Editorial Board, Political Theology
Member, Steering Committee, Religion, Social Conflict, and Peace Section, American Academy of Religion
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 2000
Th.M.
M.A.T.S. Claremont School of Theology 1995
B.A. Augustana College, Sioux Falls 1993
DISSERTATION TITLE: “Coram Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God” LSTC, 2000
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lilly
Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, Instructor in Theology,
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Philip Hefner,
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Vitor Westhelle,
Admissions Associate for Financial Aid,
Bush Grant Student-Mentor Research and Teaching Assistant to
Dr. Ann Pederson, Religion Department, Augustana College, 1992-1993
Awards
and Honors
§ 2007 Ambassador Award, from the Illinois College Alumni Association for representation of the college through service and work in the greater community.
§
James A. Roehm Outstanding Advisor Award. From the Board of the
Contact Information
E-mail address
Web address
Mailing Address
Department of Philosophy and Religion
1101
Last revised: July 2008