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Courses Taught
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Introduction to the Bible; Religion and Literature; God, Suffering, and Evil; Women, Race, and Theology; Contemporary Religious Issues: Women’s Ordination; Questions of Christianity; The Christian Tradition; Process Theology and Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Senior Seminar: Religion, War, and Peace (2005); Interfaith Dialogue (2008); First Year Seminar: Vocation – God & Work (2005); Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies; Sociology of Religion ~ team taught with Dr. Kelly Dagan; Crisis Intervention Training ~ taught in partnership with the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault; Contemporary Religious Issues: Sex and God; Women in Islam; First Year Seminar: Religious Tolerance and Christianity
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
PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:
Books:
Feminism
and Christianity: Questions and Answers
in the Third Wave. (Eugene,
Ore.: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, October 2009).
Two
Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly
as Political Theologians. (
Coram
Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God.
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Articles, Chapters, etc.
§ “Ann Pederson,” in Creating Women’s Theology: A Movement Engaging Process Thought, eds. Monica A. Coleman, Nancy Howell, and Helene Russell. (St. Louis: Chalice, 2011.)
§ “Lutheranism and Feminism” co-authored with L. DeAne Lagerquist, in Lutheran Feminist Theologies, ed. Mary J. Streufert. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010).
§ “Inhabiting Paradox: God and Feminist Theology in the Third Wave,” in Lutheran Feminist Theologies, ed. Mary J. Streufert. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010).
§ “Annoying the Student with Her Rights: Human Life Coram Hominibus,” Intersections. 2010, forthcoming.
§ “Coram Mundo: A Lutheran Feminist Anthropology of Hope” Dialog: a Journal of Theology 48:2 (Summer 2009) 132-139.
§ “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)
Also 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 Mission 24:1 (February 1997).
PROFESSIONAL
PRESENTATIONS:
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scholarly presentations
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
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here for a list of
additional conferences attended
BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED:
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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
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Last revised: January 2010