Kenda Creasy Dean, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture, and Director of the Tennent School of Christian Education
Kenda Creasy Dean is associate professor of youth, church, and culture, and director of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Tennent School of Christian Education. An ordained United Methodist minister, she also serves as program mentor for the Timothy Scholars. She holds a master of arts degree in speech communication from Miami University, a master of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She specializes in Christian formation, pedagogy, and practical theology, focusing on the spiritual formation of adolescents in postmodern culture.
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Gordon S. Mikoski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Christian Education
Princeton Theological Seminary assistant professor of Christian education Gordon Mikoski earned his M.Div. and M.A. degrees from the Seminary, and his Ph.D. degree from Emory University. His research and teaching interests focus on the relationship between the sacrament of baptism, the doctrine of the Trinity, and Christian education.
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Richard R. Osmer, Ph.D.
Thomas W. Synnott Professor of Christian Education
Richard Osmer is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Thomas W. Synnott Professor of Christian Education. He holds an M.Div. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Emory University. His interests include the teaching ministry of congregations, practical theology, and interdisciplinary thinking, and his courses cover educational psychology and practical theology, children’s literature in Christian moral education, confirmation and catechism, and the social functions of religion, ethics, and education in theories of modernity and postmodernity.
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Bo Karen Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Historical Theology
Bo Karen Lee is assistant professor of spirituality and historical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned her M.Div. from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, and her Th.M. and Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary in 1999 and 2007.
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Geddes W. Hanson, Ph.D.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Congregational Ministry
Geddes W. Hanson, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Congregational Ministry, earned his S.T.B. from Harvard University Divinity School and his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. His research interests focus on the behavioral study of ministry as leadership within complex religious organizations, with a particular interest in the evolution of ministry over generations in racial ethnic minority congregations.
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Donald E. Capps, Ph.D., Hon STD
William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology
Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary’s William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology, earned his B.D. and S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He draws on his training as a psychologist of religion in both his teaching and his writing. His research interests include pastoral care, psychobiography, and the psychology of religion, art, and poetry.
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Robert C. Dykstra, Ph.D.
Professor of Pastoral Theology
Robert C. Dykstra is professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned both the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees. His academic interests include pastoral care and counseling, contemporary psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology, pastoral preaching, and the integration of biblical and theological precepts with contemporary research in the human sciences.
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Abigail Rian Evans, Ph.D., Hon LHD
Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Practical Theology
Abigail Rian Evans is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Practical Theology and chair of the Department of Practical Theology. She earned her M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and her Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics at Georgetown University. Her areas of academic interest are bioethics, health ministries, older adult ministry and aging, pastoral theology, and ethics, and her courses cover addiction, worship, congregational life, death and dying, health and spirituality, and older adult ministry.
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Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, Ph.D.
Professor of Pastoral Theology
Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned her M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School, and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Her academic interests include educating clergy and laypeople to offer theologically sound and psychologically informed pastoral care in the church. In addition to her doctoral seminars, she teaches courses on the theory and practice of pastoral care, the theological foundations and clinical skills of pastoral counseling, marriage and family, prayer and pastoral care, developing compassionate communication in the church, and the relevance of Jungian concepts and methods for pastoral care and counseling.
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Charles L. Bartow, Ph.D.
Carl and Helen Egner Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry
Charles L. Bartow's interests include the practical theological appropriation of contemporary performance studies and rhetoric for the oral study of biblical literature, homiletical theory, practice and criticism, and presiding in liturgy. He teaches courses on biblical preaching as practical theology. He holds an M.A. from Michigan State University, a B.D. (M.Div.) from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. from New York University.
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Michael A. Brothers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry
Michael A. Brothers is assistant professor of speech communication in ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. He holds an M.A. from Northwestern University’s School of Speech, and M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Seminary. His teaching and research interests include the relationship between performance studies, aesthetics, narrative, and preaching.
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Sally Ann Brown, Ph.D.
Elizabeth M. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship
Sally A. Brown has an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Her academic interests include the theology and rhetoric of the cross in contemporary preaching, with attention to issues raised by feminist theology and postmodern theories of discourse; exploring the history, theology, and rhetoric of women’s preaching in a range of cultural contexts; identifying trajectories of continuity and change in worship today, with attention to the what and why of Christian worship, theologically, as well as the difference context makes in worship practices; and hermeneutical theory and constructive practical theology. She teaches preaching and worship as well as a Ph.D. seminar in theories of interpretation and constructive practical theology.
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Nancy Lammers Gross, Ph.D.
Dean of Student Life and Associate Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry
Nancy Lammers Gross is the Arthur Sarell Rudd Associate Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry and Dean of Student Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned both her M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary. Her areas of teaching interest include speech communication, preaching, worship, and hermeneutics.
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James F. Kay, Ph.D.
Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics
James F. Kay is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics and director of the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching. He is also editor of Theology Today. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Kay specializes in the history, theology, and practice of preaching and worship. His courses cover worship in the Reformed tradition, theology and proclamation, and homiletical theory. Kay holds an M.Div. from Harvard University and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
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Cleophus J. LaRue, Ph.D.
Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics
Cleophus J. LaRue, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics, received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor University, his M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Seminary. He specializes in the theory and method of African American preaching and worship.
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J. Randall Nichols, Ph.D.
Director of the D.Min. Program and Lecturer in Theology and Communication
J. Randall Nichols is Princeton Theological Seminary’s director of the Doctor of Ministry Program, and lecturer in theology and communication. He earned his B.D. (M.Div.) and Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary in 1967 and 1970 respectively. His teaching and research focus on human communication dynamics and behavior in theological perspective, with a particular interest in preaching, as well as in pastoral care. He is also active in exploring the uses and impacts of online experience in teaching and in ministry. He teaches courses relating preaching to imagination, pastoral care and communication, problems of forgiveness, and personality type.
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Luke A. Powery, Th.D.
Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics
Luke A. Powery is the Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and his Th.D. through Emmanuel College, University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. His academic interests are located at the intersection of pneumatology, preaching, worship, speech performance studies, and culture, particularly expressions of the African diaspora. His courses include an exploration of the relationship between the Holy Spirit and preaching, and the connection between corporate worship practices and social witness in the world.
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Martin Tel, DMA
C.F. Seabrook Director of Music
Martin Tel, Princeton Seminary’s C.F. Seabrook Director of Music, earned an M.Mus. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. from Calvin Theological Seminary, and a D.M.A. from the University of Kansas. A deacon in the Reformed Church of America, Tel is interested in congregational singing, and his courses cover musical resources for the congregation, and the philosophy of church music.
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