Faculty Activities
Our faculty are busy on and off campus, contributing to the church, the academy and the community in various ways. Here are some of their most recent accomplishments.
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll
Associate Professor of New Testament
Publications
“Audience Inclusion and Exclusion as Rhetorical Technique in the Gospel of Mark,” Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 129, Issue 4; 2010, pp. 714-33.
Review of A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark’s Gospel by Brendan Byrne; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2008. Theological Studies Vol. 71, 2010, p. 251.
Review of The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 CE: A Source Book by Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson; Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2008). Biblical Theology Bulletin Vol. 40, 2010, pp. 61-62.
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungenzum Neuen Testament 263. Co-edited with James A. Kelhoffer and Paul A. Holloway; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Memory as an Indicator of Belief in the Oracle of Trophonius,” presented to Greco-Roman Religions group at the Annual Society of Biblical Literature conference, Atlanta, November 2010.
Meetings
Annual Society of Biblical Literature conference, Atlanta, November 2010.
Church and popular lectures
“Catholic Sacramentality and the Environment” in “Abrahamic Faiths and the Environment” series, Ohio State University St. Thomas More/Newman Center, April 5, 2011.
Paul Burnam
Director of the Dickhaut Library
Academic lectures and presentations
Panelist for “Managing Serial Subscriptions” at 2010 American Theological Library Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Ky.
“When Fungi Take Up Residence,” paper delivered at 2011 American Theological Library Annual Conference, Chicago. It will also appear in the 65th ATLA Proceedings.
Jeffrey Jaynes
Professor in the Warner Chair of Church History
Publications
“African Christians, Christians Visiting Africa: The Early Modern Narrative Cosmographies from Breydenbach to al-hassan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan [Leo Africanus],” in Die Begegnung mit Fremden in ihrer Bedeutung für das Geschichtsbewusstsein, Veröffentlichung des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte: Mainz, vol. 86, 2011.
Meetings
Presentation on the Uniting General Conference of the World Communion of Reformed Churches at Scioto Valley Presbytery meeting, November 2010.
Church and popular lectures
“The Pilgrim’s Way: Traditions of Travel and Faith,” sermon, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Columbus, November 2010.
“Thomas the Disciple and the Other Gospel Tradition,” sermon, Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, March 2011.
John Kampen
Professor in the Dunn Chair of Biblical Interpretation
Publications
“Hasideans,” Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, eds. John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, pp. 704-05.
Wisdom Literature, Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.
Review of Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11-13 January, 2004, edited by Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz in Review of Biblical Literature (electronic), Sept. 16, 2010.
Review of Women in the Damascus Document by Cecilia Wassen in Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 26, Issue 2, fall 2010, pp. 237-38.
Academic Lectures and Presentations
“‘Torah’ and Authority in the Major Sectarian Rules Texts from Qumran,” International Organization of Qumran Studies, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 4, 2010.
Awards and Appointments
Appointed Chair of Church Council, Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship, for 2010-2011.
Church and popular lectures
“I Will Not Pass by the Truth,” sermon, Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship, Aug. 22, 2010.
“Living with the Text,” joint sermon with pastor, Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship, Aug. 29, 2010.
Paul Kim
Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Williams Chair of Biblical Studies
Publications
You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature, co-authored with Louis Stulman; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010.
Academic Lectures and Presentations
“Recent Trends in Old Testament Theology,” lecture, Presbyterian College & Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 11, 2010.
“Isaiah 22: A Crux or a Clue in Isaiah 13-23?” SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 2010.
“OT and Ancient Near Eastern Roots for the Study of Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism,” lecture, Presbyterian College & Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea Nov. 8, 2010.
“Theology of the Psalms,” guest lecture, Hyupsung University, Bongdam, Kyungkido, Korea, Nov. 2, 2010.
“Relationship as a Key Theme of Genesis for the Diaspora Immigrants,” lecture, Korean Biblical Colloquium Symposium, Atlanta, Nov. 19, 2010.
“Recent Trends in Reading the Psalms,” guest lecture, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 1, 2010.
“Fun in the Pun, in Deciphering Isaiah,” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society (SBL Regional) Meeting, Richfield, March 31-April 1, 2011.
Response to Justo Gonzalez’s keynote address titled “Hearing the Word: Lutherans Read the Bible with the Ecumenical World,” Hein-Fry Lecture Series, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, May 3, 2011.
Meetings
Attended joint seminars of Namdaemoon Presbyterian Church at First Presbyterian Church of Delaware, Ohio, Feb. 19, 2011.
Church and popular lectures
Sermons, the chapel at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13-14, 2010.
“Thanksgiving,” Habakkuk 3:17-19, sermon, Yonsei University English Chapel, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 26, 2010.
Lecture to undergraduate students retreat at Yonsei University, Nov. 12-13, 2010.
“The Good Sheep,” sermon on Psalm 23 and John 10:1-10, at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Columbus, May 15, 2011.
“Ministers of Our God,” sermon on Psalm 66 and John 14:15-21, at Boulevard Presbyterian Church, Upper Arlington, May 29, 2011.
Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Professor in the Werner Chair of Theology
Publications
Pursuit of Happiness: Blessing and Fulfillment in Christian Faith, Wipf & Stock, 2010.
Academic lectures and presentations
“The Dangers of Triumphalism: Ecclesiology and Empire,” Wesley Theological Society, Dallas, March 5, 2011.
The Staley Lecture: “Women and Original Sin in the Wesleyan Tradition,” Columbia College, Columbia, S.C., March 30, 2011.
Meetings
Co-moderator of Ecclesiology Drafting Group, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 20-23, 2010.
Anglican-Methodist International Commission for Unity in Mission, Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 11-18, 2011.
Host and co-moderator of Ecclesiology Working Group of the World Council of Churches’ Faith and Order standing commission, MTSO, March 16-21.
Logos Workshop, “Divine Revelation: Meaning, Authority, and Canon” at University of Notre Dame, June 2-4, 2011.
Church and popular lectures
Moderator of Church Leadership Institute, Bay View, Mich., Aug. 1-5, 2010.
Lectures for Berlin Seminar for International UMC Congregations in Europe, Berlin, Germany, Jan. 23-27, 2011.
Vergel L. Lattimore III
Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling in the Beeghly Chair of Pastoral Care
Awards and appointments
Examiner on the third and fourth year Conference Studies Committee and chair of the State of the Country Committee, Ohio Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church meeting, Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion, Youngstown, June 16-19, 2011.
Appointed co-convener for pre-conference gathering for people of color at the 2012 annual meeting of American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC).
Meetings
Planning Meeting of the Columbus-Cincinnati District, St. Paul A.M.E. Zion, Dayton, July 10, 2010.
Meetings of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, July 28, Aug. 25, and Sept. 27, 2010.
“How to Develop Treatment Plans that Make Sense to Clients,” workshop, Ohio State University, Aug. 19, 2010.
“Sex and Addiction: A Clinical Perspective,” workshop, Ohio State University, Aug. 20, 2010.
“The Addiction Trauma Connection: Spirals of Recovery and Healing,” presentation, Ohio State University, Aug. 20, 2010.
118th Anniversary of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Church, Dayton, Sept. 19, 2010.
American Association of Pastoral Counselors regional conference and workshop: “Supervision: Attending to the Unattended,” Columbus, Ind., Sept. 26, 2010.
Participated in Black History Program featuring the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. (Ohio Memorial Chapter) and sponsored by the Office of Student Services, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Feb. 22, 2011.
Annual Conference and Meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Phoenix, March 29-April 2, 2011. Attended “Day of Emersion” and workshops “Forgiveness as a Resource,” “Mercy Triumphs over Justice,” and “Exploring Institutional Dynamics of Power & Reactivity.”
Third Check-Up Meeting of the Ohio Annual Conference at Ruth A.M.E. Zion Church in Sharon, Pa., April 10, 2011.
Church and popular lectures
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Spiritual Hospitality,” sermon, First A.M.E. Zion, July 25, 2010.
“Get Up and Turn on the Lights,” sermon, St. Paul A.M.E. Zion, Aug. 22, 2010.
“A Little Lesson on Love: ABIDE,” sermon, St. Paul A.M.E. Zion, Sept. 12, 2010.
Linda A. Mercadante
Professor of Theology in the Straker Chair of Historical Theology
Publications
“Helping Addicts Move Beyond the Spiritual Wading Pool: A New Approach to Religion and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions,” in International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, fall 2010.
“Theology of Trauma,” Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011.
“Unfettered Belief, Untethered Practice: Thinking Theologically about ‘Spiritual but not Religious,’” Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology, 2010-11.
Academic lectures and presentations
“The Challenge of Spirituality in the New Millennium,” four keynotes, Great Lakes Theological Academy, Traverse City, Mich., July 26-30, 2010.
“Victims & Sinners,” Oberlin College, October 2010.
“Themes in Religious Conversion,” respondent, American Academy of Religion, Religious Conversion Consultation, November 2010.
Co-chair, American Academy of Religion Religious Conversion Consultation, November 2010.
Awards and appointments
Chair, Coordinating Committee, Religious Conversions Program Unit, American Academy of Religion, 2008-present.
Theologian-in-Residence, First UMC, Boulder, Colo., August to November 2010.
Meetings
Pride Day, First UMC, Boulder, Colo., Sept. 11, 2010.
Spiritual but Not Religious Project, Ghost Ranch, N.M., Oct. 25, 2010.
American Academy of Religion, November 2010.
Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology Award Winners Symposium, Pittsburgh, Nov. 11-14, 2010.
Theologies of Religious Pluralism, Cohort II, Nov. 29, 2010.
Church and popular lectures
“Spirituality or Religion?” Interview and call-in, All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU 820 AM, August 2010.
“Theological Perspectives on Trauma and Victimization,” First UMC, Boulder, Colo., Sept. 19, 2010.
“Unfettered Belief, Untethered Practice: The Spiritual but Not Religious Movement,” First UMC, Boulder, Colo., Oct. 4, 2010.
“Spirituality and Addiction Recovery,” First UMC, Boulder, Colo., Oct. 17, 2010.
“Getting in Touch with the Spirit: Spiritual Memoir Writing Workshops” First UMC, Boulder, Colo., Oct. 7, 14 and 21, 2010.
“A Non-Violent Atonement,” Columbus Mennonite Church, Nov. 21, 2010.
“The Church and Contemporary Spirituality,” Worthington Presbyterian Church, Nov. 28, 2010.
“Meeting the Spiritual but Not Religious,” Worthington Presbyterian Church, Dec. 5, 2010.
Paul Numrich
Professor in the Snowden Chair for the Study of Religion and Interrreligious Relations
Publications
The Faith Next Door: American Christians and Their New Religious Neighbors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Academic lectures and presentations
Organized and presented at session of Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Montreal.
Reviews
Reviewed manuscript for Social Forces Journal.
Reviewed project proposal for United States Institute of Peace.
Meetings
Ramadan Iftar Dinner sponsored by Scioto Educational Foundation and Students for Dialogue (OSU), Columbus.
Interfaith Association of Central Ohio open house at Masjid Al-Urooj, Dublin, Ohio.
Church of the Brethren Ministerial Ethics Training, Peoria, Ill.
Met with representative of OhioHealth regarding local religious diversity and implications for health care.
Attended 2010 Annual Abrahamic Faiths Dinner sponsored by Scioto Educational Foundation (a Muslim organization).
Awards and appointments
Appointed to editorial board of Journal of Global Buddhism.
Scioto Educational Foundation Award for Excellence in Dialogue, Academic Institutions category, at 7th Annual Dialogue Dinner, Columbus.
Church and popular lectures
Led two Saturday workshops for West Ohio Conference Lay Academy, Huber Heights.
M. Fulgence Nyengele
Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling in the Chryst Chair in Pastoral Theology
Publications
Review of Listen My Son: Wisdom to Help African American Fathers by Lee H. Butler; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010. In Journal of Pastoral Theology, Vol. 21, No. 1.
Academic lectures and presentations
Workshop on “Pastoral Care in Contexts of Postcolonial Trauma,” American Association of Pastoral Counselors Annual Conference, Phoenix, March 31–April 2, 2011.
“Practical Psychology for Pastors: Pastoral Care in a Changing Congolese Society,” seminar and workshop focused on providing knowledge, skills and tools needed for effective pastoral care and leadership in a socially changing Congolese context. South Congo Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 13, 2011.
Meetings
Consultation on Global United Methodist Theological Education, Atlanta, March 23-25, 2011.
American Association of Pastoral Counselors Annual Conference, Phoenix, March 31–April 2, 2011.
Professional consultation meetings at Riverside Methodist Hospital Pastoral Care Department, including interviewing candidates for a chaplain position, February and April 2011.
Committee on Faith and Order of the United Methodist Church, July 14-16, 2011, Chicago.
Church and popular lectures
“Forgiveness and Transformation” Lenten Bible study, Asbury North UMC, Columbus, February–April 2011.
“Love Your Enemies and Pray for Your Persecutors,” sermon, Asbury North UMC, Columbus, Feb. 20, 2011.
“Healing and Transformation,” sermon, Asbury North UMC, Columbus, March 29, 2011.
Presided at Holy Communion, Asbury North UMC, Columbus, Jan. 2, Feb. 6, and March 6, 2011.
“Following Jesus in the Context of Violence,” sermon, Annual Conference of the Lubumbashi District of the United Methodist Church, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 29, 2011.
“The Faith of Thomas and Our Faith,” sermon, Kigoma UMC, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 2011.
“The Spirituality of Courage, Engagement, and Determination,” sermon, Mulungwishi UMC, Mulungwishi, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 5, 2011.
“Transforming the Stranger into a Guest,” opening reflection for the summer meeting of the Committee on Faith and Order of the United Methodist Church, July 14, 2011, Chicago.
Joon-Sik Park
Professor in the E. Stanley Jones Chair of World Evangelism
Publications
“Ecclesiologies in Creative Tension: The Church as Ethical and Missional Reality in H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder.” The Center Letter: Cultivating Missional Communities Vol. 40, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 1-3.
Meetings
Study Committee on the Worldwide Nature of the United Methodist Church, Monrovia, Liberia and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Aug. 13–23, 2010.
European Methodist Council Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 10–15, 2010.
Church and popular lectures
“People of Vision,” sermon, Georgia Patten Memorial UMC, Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 15, 2010.
Timothy L. Van Meter
Assistant Professor in the Alford Chair of Christian Education and Youth Ministry
Academic lectures and presentations
“Christian Witness in Contemporary Culture,” Consortium Dinner Presentation, Jan. 18, 2011.
“Holy Listening,” Trinity Ministry Conference, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Feb. 7-8, 2011.
Meetings
American Academy for the Advancement of Science meeting for seminary faculty, Aug. 10-11, 2010.
American Academy for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference, invited as guest of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion project, Feb. 16-18, 2011.
Church and popular lectures
Youth minister consulting, Trinity UMC, Lima, Aug. 30, 2010.
Robin Knowles Wallace
Professor in the Taylor Chair of Church Worship and Music
Publications
The Christian Year: A Guide for Worship and Preaching, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.
Review of Colours of Grace: Gesangbuch der Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa/Hymnbook of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe/Livre de Cantiques de la Communion d’Églises Protestantes en Europe, edited by Peter Bukowski, Thomas Flügge, Dorothea Monninger, Christine-Ruth Müller, Andreas Marti, Franz Karl Praßl and Ilsabe Seibt. München/Munich: Strube Verlag GmbH, 2006. In The Hymn Vol. 61, Issue 4, Autumn 2010, p. 63.
Review of Commentary, Notes, and Introductions to the 1858 Sabbath Hymn Book: The Musicalized Theology of Popular Belief Just Before the Civil War, edited, with notes, by Samuel J. Rogal, Lewiston, New York, and Queenston, Ontario: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. In The Hymn Vol. 61, Issue 4, Autumn 2010, p. 64.
Review of Walking in the Light of Christ by Janis Dunson Wilson, Colfax, N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions, 2007. In The Hymn Vol. 61, Issue 4, Autumn 2010.
Review of Worshipping with the Church Fathers, by Christopher A. Hall, Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2009. In Doxology, 2010.
“‘Jesus, United by Thy Grace’: Wesleyan Hymn Singing as a Communal Spiritual Practice,” Proceedings of the Charles Wesley Society 13 (2009), published in fall 2010.
Review of Hymns for Today by Brian Wren; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. In The Hymn Vol. 61, Issue 3, summer 2010, p. 51.
Review of Music and the Wesleys, ed. Nicholas Temperley and Stephen Banfield, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2010, and The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader, S.T. Kimbrough, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2011. In Methodist History Vol. 49, Issue 3, April 2011, p. 181-182.
Academic lectures and presentations
With Diane Lobody, three presentations on hybrid courses, MTSO 50th Anniversary Celebration, September 2010.
Meetings
Ohio Conference Annual Gathering of the United Church of Christ, led Taizé service and assisted with other worship/served on Annual Gathering Planning Committee, June 11-12, 2010.
Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada, Birmingham, Ala., July 11-15, 2010.
Spring Meeting of Central Southeast Ohio Association, United Church of Christ, May 7, 2011.
Charles Wesley Society, led two worship services and served on executive board, Duke Divinity School, June 22-24, 2011.
Church and popular lectures
Directed choir for Cordelia Burpee’s ordination, Mt. Vernon UCC, Aug. 28, 2010.
Planned two worship services for Central SouthEast Ohio Association of the United Church of Christ, Fall Meeting, Dublin Community Church, Dublin, Oct. 30, 2010.
“The Hymns of Advent,” adult Christian education, Trinity UMC, Columbus, Dec. 5, 12, and 19, 2010.
“Passionate Worship in Small Membership Churches,” Three Rivers District, East Ohio Annual Conference, Mulberry Street UMC, Mt. Vernon, Jan. 30, 2011.
Lisa Withrow
Professor in the Dewire Chair of Christian Leadership
Publications
Immersion Bible Studies: Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.
Review of Globalization, Spirituality and Justice by Daniel G. Groody, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008. In Spiritus Vol. 11, Issue 1, Spring 2011
Academic lectures and presentations
Presentation with research team on Wabash cross-cultural research findings, Association of Theological Field Educators, January 2011.
Presentation and analysis of data, Wabash grant-sponsored research group on cross-cultural programs in ATS schools, May 13-15, 2011.
Meetings
Wabash colloquy – The Art of Teaching, January 2011.
Wabash Mid-Career Colloquy, June 13-18, 2011.
Awards and appointments
Appointed to Academy of Religious Leadership, April 2011.
Appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Religious Leadership.
Named guest editor of Journal of Religious Leadership, 2011-2012.
Appointed external reviewer for Harvard Theology Review.
Church and popular lectures
“Leadership for the Future,” sermon, Northcoast Leadership Academy, Cleveland, February 2011.
“Conflict Management and Creating the Future,” consultation, Attica UMC, February–April 2011.
“Conflict Transformation,” Mid-Ohio District Leadership Event, Sunbury, October 2010.
Yvonne Zimmerman
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics
Publications
“From Bush to Obama: Rethinking Sex and Religion in the United States’ Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 26(1) Spring 2010, pp. 79-99.
Academic lectures and presentations
Lectures, Schooler Institute on Preaching, MTSO, October 2009.
Meetings
American Academy of Religion annual meeting, November 2009.
Church and popular lectures
“The Way to Be Radical” MTSO Senior Breakfast, May 22, 2010.
“What is a Christian Sexual Ethics for Today? An Introductory Seminar,” First Community Church, Columbus, June 23, 2010.
