Pastoral care, practical theology and spiritual formation
This area highlights faculty expertise in pastoral care, practical theology, chaplaincy, Doctor of Ministry leadership, spiritual direction, ministry formation, grief, burnout and congregational care.
Farris Blount III
Research specialties include Black Church ecclesiology, practical theology, faith formation, Black millennials and church life, theology and culture and liberation theology.
April Johnson Bristow
Research specialties include pastoral care, grief, spiritual formation, cultural intelligence, compassion fatigue, mental health and faith-based leadership.
Jaime Clark-Soles
Research specialties include Johannine literature, suffering and afterlife, disability and the New Testament, biblical authority, women in the Bible and gender.
Dallas J. Gingles
Research specialties include Christian ethics, political theology, bioethics, systematic theology, theological anthropology, providence and ecclesiology.
Priscilla Pope-Levison
Research specialties include women’s studies, American Christianity, Wesleyan studies, contextual theology, evangelism and ecumenism.
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Research specialties include pastoral care of women, multicultural and cross-cultural care, identity formation, crisis ministry, violence and pastoral counseling.
Hannah Sutton-Adams
Research specialties include religious trauma and recovery, trauma-informed theological education, faith formation, spiritual care and chaplaincy, children’s spirituality and practical theology.