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	Abigail Rian Evans Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Practical Theology and Chair of the Department of Practical Theology 12 Mackay Campus Center Phone: 609.497.7972 Fax: 609.688.2672 Email: abigail.evans@ptsem.edu

Profile
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. She is the coordinator of the Older Adult Ministry and Aging Initiative at Princeton Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minister, she has preached and lectured extensively here and abroad.

Major Publications
The Healing Church: Practical Programs for Health Ministries (United Church Press, 1999) Redeeming Marketplace Medicine: A Theology of Health Care (Pilgrim Press, 1999) O ministério terapêutico da Igreja: Programas Praticos para Ministerios de Saude (Sao Paulo, Brasil: Edições Loyola, 2002) Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life (Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) “Healing in the Midst of Dying,” in John Swinton and Richard Payne (eds.), Living Well, Dying Faithfully: The Role of Christian Practices in End of Life Care. In press.