Contributors

Brooke Lester, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible and Director for Emerging Pedagogies, at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston IL). He received his degree in Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary.

We are pleased that Brooke has agreed to serve as Seminarium’s curator, because – in his own words – I am an instructor who has “discovered” the scholarship of teaching and learning, and who talks about it with something of the fanaticism of the convert.

Brooke writes: There is a famous curse about being doomed to live “in exciting times,” and it’s not always fun to be living through the greatest upheaval in literacy since Gutenberg (or possibly since the dawn of writing), but, well…here we are!

My favorite thing about “digital learning” is that the stakes are in fact as high as we think they are: the digitization of language makes us talk together about how we really think learning happens, and then it makes us reconsider almost everything we think we know about that.

More insight into Brooke’s pedagogical “reconsiderings” can be found on his personal blog: http://www.anumma.com.

Allison Kestenbaum teaches clinical pastoral education to interfaith seminary students and clergy at the Center for Pastoral Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.  Allison draws on her extensive clinical experience as a chaplain to train students to develop greater self-awareness and theoretical frameworks to support their practice of pastoral care.   Allison is also working on research about spiritual assessment as well as describing how chaplain trainees learn and what chaplains actually do with patients and clients. Allison is an NAJC and APC Board Certified Chaplain and an ACPE Supervisor.  She holds Masters degrees from New York University in Judaic Studies and Non-profit Management/Public Policy

Brad Anderson (PhD, Durham University, England) is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, where he teaches biblical studies along with student skills development and research methods. Brad is passionate about biblical studies and pedagogy and is intentional about bringing these interests into dialogue with one another in his own practice, both in teaching and in research. His publications include Brotherhood and Inheritance: A Canonical Reading of the Esau and Edom Traditions (T&T Clark, 2011), as well as the co-authored volume Making Sense: A Student’s Guide to Research and Writing in Religious Studies(OUP, 2012).

You can read more about Brad and his interests here, or follow him on Twitter.

Cari Crumly is currently the Training Coordinator and Technical Instructional Designer for a large medical software company that provides support to clients using an electronic health record solution. Dr. Crumly also holds the title of Curriculum Coordinator and Technical Instructional Designer for the U.S. Department of Energy under the supervision of five state community and technical colleges in Kansas.

Cari was born and raised in Springfield, Illinois. Following graduation from Baker University in 2001, Cari began graduate school through Capella University in 2002 and graduated with a Master of Science in Education – Training and Performance Improvement. Following graduate school, Cari continued her educational path through Capella and completed her Doctorate in Philosophy with an emphasis on Post-Secondary and Adult Education in 2011.

Dr. Crumly believes that education and learning is a lifelong process and continues to contribute to academics by volunteering her time to peer review adult learning content through MERLOT, by reviewing and editing textbooks through various textbook publishers, and through other academic partnerships and relationship nationwide and abroad. Cari is very passionate about her role as a facilitator, mentor, and developer; this passion ensures that students achieve their learning objectives and career aspirations.

Cari is married, has one daughter, and in her free time enjoys various sports such as baseball, football, and hockey.

Charles William Miller (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Dakota, where he teaches a wide variety of biblical studies and religious studies courses. Prior to coming to UND in 1999, he taught Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Pacific Theological College in Suva, FIJI. His primary research interests are focused on the poetry of the Hebrew Bible, the missionaries of 19th century Hawai’i, and the pedagogical implications of “religion” being a cultural construct.

Chris Paris, Ph.D., is a lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity. He also teaches online for Excelsior College and Madisonville Community College. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University after his completing his soon to be published dissertation “Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible” (Fortress Press, forthcoming).

At Vanderbilt, Chris has taught Biblical Hebrew I & II, Literary Analysis of the Hebrew Bible, and Leadership in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. One of his favorite courses is The Bible in American Culture because he loves to see the biblical references that his students unearth in books, movies, songs, and comic books. He looks forward to sharing his love for comic books with members of Vanderbilt’s Program for Talented Youth by teaching the course Anti-Semitism and Comic Book Superheroes.

David J. Lose is president of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP). Lose assumed his duties at the start of the 2014-2015 academic year. He was Marbury Anderson Associate Professor of Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, before accepting the presidency at LTSP. Dr. Lose shares his thoughts on his blog …in the Meantime.

As the founding Director of the Center for Biblical Preaching. Lose led the team that created WorkingPreacher.org, a popular website of resources and inspiration for preachers worldwide, and he contributes frequently to it and other preaching sites. His latest offering, Preaching at the Crossroads, introduces an evolution in Lose’s approach to preaching over the past several years. Says Lose. “I want to help preachers identify those significant cultural changes that are affecting their people, world, and church so that they can also allow them to shape their preaching.”

David Rhoads is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (1988 to 2010), previously professor of religion at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI (1973 to 1988). He has published Mark as Story (co-author, third edition, 2012), The Challenge of Diversity (2004), Reading Mark, Engaging the Gospel (2005), From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective (editor, 2005), and “Performance Criticism: An Emerging Discipline in Second Testament Studies” (BTB, 2006). He edits the Biblical Performance Criticism series for Wipf and Stock Press. He edited Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet (2008), co-edited The Season of Creation (2011), and directs Lutherans Restoring Creation. Rhoads was Carthage Teacher of the Year in 1974-75. In 2004, he received the first Fortress Press Award for outstanding teaching in a graduate/seminary institution. Rhoads lives in Racine, WI with his wife the Rev. Sandra Roberts.

George Elerick is an author, speaker and founder of Chairs for Dialogue, an interfaith initiative that unites people from different faith traditions, no faith traditions, and different lifestyle backgrounds to work together to find relevant, creative, and practical ways to respond to global issues such as poverty, sex trafficking, debt, war, intolerance, and injustice.

George has been an editor for Wrecked, an online magazine for social justice misfits, and writes there frequently in addition to several other online magazines, including Relevant Magazine. George has also written a book entitled Jesus Bootlegged: Recapturing the Hijacked Message of Jesus for the World.
You can find George on Twitter , Facebook and the website CrossCultureConsultancy.

Gregory Lee Cuéllar is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Dr. Cuéllar has a wide range of teaching experience, both as a professor and a pastor. Prior to entering the classroom, he was Curator of The Colonial Mexican Imprint Collection at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University. As a scholar, Dr. Cuéllar has had international exposure from Latin America to Europe with his research focusing on the intersections of biblical interpretation, postcolonial theory, museum studies, archival theory and collection studies. His religious work and academic research primarily focus on the undocumented and unaccompanied immigration experience, especially as it pertains to the US-Mexico Borderlands.

As a result of the recent increase in undocumented juvenile immigrants from Central America, he has directed much of his advocacy and research toward meeting this humanitarian need. At the juxtaposition of his interest in art and immigrant advocacy, he is currently working on an archival project, Arte de Lágrimas: Refugee Artwork Project, to portray, through artwork, the journey and homeland stories of child refugees crossing over the Texas-Mexico border. The intention is to focus on spiritual visions and religious motifs to moderate the effects of the violence and victimization experienced by these children. He is author of Voices of Marginality: Exile and Return In Second Isaiah and the Mexican Immigrant Experience (2008). His forthcoming book is titled, The British Museum and the Bible: the Indexes of Subjectivity in Modern Biblical Criticism.

Holly Inglis received her D.Ed.Min. degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in May, 2012 where she focused on how the neuroscience of learning and memory can inform what we do in the church and make what we do more ‘sticky.’  She earned her M.Div. degree from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.

Holly identifies herself as a Quak-e-terian, having been raised as a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and serving as a Quaker pastor for 5 years with her husband, Mark.  In 1993, Holly answered a newspaper ad for a Christian Educator at a Presbyterian Church and the rest is history. Holly has served Presbyterian churches in Indianapolis, Indiana; Arvada, Colorado; and now, Welshire Presbyterian in Denver, Colorado.

J. Aaron Simmons is associate professor of philosophy at Furman University. Specializing in 19th and 20th century European philosophy and philosophy of religion, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including God and the Other and The New Phenomenology.

Jane S. Webster (PhD McMaster University, Canada) is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Barton College, North Carolina. She conducts research in the Gospel of John, feminist biblical hermeneutics, religious healing, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. In addition to her many publications, she has authored Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John (2003) and co-edited, Lady Parts: Biblical Women and The Vagina Monologues (2012). Prior to her academic career, Webster was a critical care nurse and missionary in South America.

Janelle Peters, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the University of St. Francis (Illinois). She has published widely on early Judaism and Christianity in academic journals such as Biblica, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, and Postscripts. Her popular media publications include an article in the American Bible Series in America.

At the University of St. Francis, Janelle teaches in the Department of Theology and Philosophy. Among her favorite classes is the Theology of Death and Dying. This course gives her the opportunity to explore the funerary banquet tradition from ancient Greece to contemporary liturgy and cultural celebrations.

Jennifer Shepherd holds a PhD (Religion and Theology, University of Manchester, 2006), M.A. (Biblical Studies, Trinity Western University, 2001), and a B.Th. (Pastoral Ministry, EPBC 1995).  Passionate about teaching Biblical Studies, she served for twelve years in various Adjunct Faculty roles at the College (Columbia Bible College), Seminary (Masters College & Seminary), and University levels (Trinity Western).  Passionate about personal development, she served for six years as HR Director (Carina Sports Group) and currently as a leadership consultant with  ENGAGE Consulting.

Driven to develop individuals who are conscious of their faith positions and deliberate in communicating them, her pedagogical method combines complex notions such as the role of the brain (cognitive psychology), role of prior experiences (philosophy of meaning), and methods of interpretation (hermeneutics) and links them to each individual in an understandable and practical way using a personal assessments tool.  After three years of in-class experience with over 500 students, she has just launched a series of innovative continuing education resources for pastors who struggle to understand and engage the current “interpretive context” of personal, private, non-institutional, and diverse faith positions.

Jim Papandrea is Associate Professor of Church History at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL (on the campus of Northwestern University). He is an educator, author, speaker, and musician. He received his bachelor’s degree in music and theatre arts from the University of Minnesota, and his M.Div. degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Jim holds a Ph.D. in the history and theology of the early Christian church from Northwestern University, with secondary concentrations in New Testament interpretation and the history of the Roman Empire. He has also studied Roman history at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.  In addition to his work in the seminary, Jim regularly teaches in the Institute for Diaconal Studies of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Recent books include Reading the Early Church Fathers (Paulist Press), Trinity 101 (Liguori), and ROME: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Eternal City (Cascade Books). Jim’s website is www.JimPapandrea.com.

Josh Kingcade serves as education minister at the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City and as adjunct instructor at nearby Oklahoma Christian University. In these roles he writes curriculum, trains teachers, and teaches both college students and adults.

Josh received his M.Div. from Oklahoma Christian University’s Graduate School of Theology in 2008, and he has done further graduate work in education. His mother, brother, and wife are all educators, and so Josh’s passion for education is in his blood. He has done consulting work with churches and private schools around the country in the areas of teacher development, curriculum mapping, and visions/missions of education programs. Josh’s website is faithform.com.

Julia Lambert Fogg is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. She chairs the Religion Department at California Lutheran University, just outside of Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Emory University and an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. The Rev. Dr. Fogg was named Professor of the Year by CLU class of 2008, Julia develops innovative, immersive and relational teaching methods for experiential and transformational learning with students with community partners.

Julia’s study of the social and political dynamics of communities in Pauline letters informs her interest in LA communities. From 2007-2013 she preached and presided in a diverse, bi-lingual, immigrant congregation, working with at-risk latino youth and their families. Out of this experience, she is developing a liberation theology for immigrants in Southern California using biblical narratives of border crossing. Julia collaborates with her colleagues at PLTS to re-envision the future of theological education and the emerging church.

Recently named Interim Dean of Gettysburg Seminary, Dr. Kristin Johnston Largen joined the faculty in the summer of 2006, bringing a diverse and expansive background in systematic theology. She teaches a variety of theological loci courses, with a particular focus on soteriology. She also teaches comparative theology, and specializes in Buddhism and Hinduism. She is committed to the training of public theologians at Gettysburg Seminary, and believes strongly in the relevance of systematic theology both to one’s public ministry and to one’s personal faith life.

Previous to her arrival at Gettysburg Seminary, she taught at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Largen is an ordained member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has received theological training at Wartburg Theological Seminary, the Augustana Hochschule in Neuendettelsau, Germany, and the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California, where she earned her doctoral degree. She is the editor of Dialog: a Journal of Theology, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue.

She is the author of What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism:  Rethinking Salvation (Fortress Press, 2009), Baby Krishna, Infant Christ:  A Comparative Theology of Salvation (Orbis Books, 2011); and a 2014 title for the Seminarium: Elements series (Fortress Press) called:  Interreligious Learning and Teaching: A Christian Rationale for a Transformative Praxis.

Kyle Matthew Oliver is digital missioner and learning lab coordinator in the Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) at Virginia Theological Seminary. His primary work is serving and connecting leaders in congregations who use the CMT as a curator of trusted resources and research-based best practices for Christian education and faith formation. He also teaches and coaches seminarians, faculty, and staff in the effective use of new media in their teaching and outreach and is piloting the seminary’s first for-credit course in digital media for ministry.

Kyle is a writer for the Faith Formation Learning Exchange, host of the Easter People faith and culture podcast, content developer for the e-Formation Conference, and editor of the CMT’s Key Resources blog. He enjoys running, yoga, podcasts, and comic books. Before becoming an Episcopal priest, he worked and studied with the Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group at the University of Wisconsin.

Lea F. Schweitz:  I am Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology/Religion and Science at theLutheran School of Theology  and Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity.  It’s my love of a good question that holds these interests together:  How can the cognitive sciences help us be better theological educators? How can we help learners navigate religious traditions and new findings in contemporary science? How can theological education be interdisciplinary, transformative, and contextual?  I’m eager to learn with this online community.  Watch for posts that aim to integrate the biology of learning and the exciting opportunities in seminary teaching. Then, let us know what questions arise for you!

Mindy McGarrah Sharp (PhD, Vanderbilt) is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ethics at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Author of Misunderstanding Stories: Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology , McGarrah Sharp draws attention to experiences of intercultural conflict as sources of understanding and meaning across diverse communities.  She teaches across traditional residential, online, concentrated and immersion formats of theological education, in addition to leading seminars in professional societies and local faith and interfaith communities.  As a teacher-scholar, she studies grief and violence as present dynamics of all communities – she believes with postcolonial scholars that unmasking the complex dynamics of these factors will lead to deeper hope and peace.  McGarrah Sharp is committed to integrating scholarship, teaching, and community involvement.  McGarrah Sharp is a trained clinical ethicist and returned Peace Corps volunteer.  She can be reached through the PTS website.

Nathan R.B. Loewen is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Alabama’s Center for Instructional Technology, and he is a professor in the departments of humanities and religious studies at Vanier College in Montreal, Quebec. Nathan also manages the Virtual Team-Teaching Network, which connects culturally and geographically separated classrooms for real-time learning experiences. His research on teaching seeks to adopt and adapt web-based technologies to help teachers enact pedagogies of active learning, universal design, and internationalization. As a scholar of religious studies, Nathan’s publications focus on globalizing discourses within the philosophy of religion and analyzing the intersection of religious studies and development studies.

Phil Ruge-Jones is an Associate Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University. He has memorized the Gospel of Mark for performance and a digital recording of this called “The Beginning of the Good News” available through Select Multimedia Resources. He regularly teaches students how to internalizing biblical narratives for performance. He is co-editor of the book, The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media, (Cascade, 2009).

Ralph W. Klein is Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor of Old Testament emeritus at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Klein earned his doctorate in Old Testament and the Ancient Near East at Harvard Divinity School. He has written commentaries on 1 Samuel, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1 and 2 Chronicles. He and Carolyn Leeb of Valparaiso University are preparing a commentary on Daniel. He also serves as Curator of the Rare Books Collections at LSTC. His exhaustive website on the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East can be reached at www.ot-studies.com.

Reed Carlson studies and teaches the story of God’s people. He invites his students to be surprised, delighted, and challenged when they encounter the Bible.

Reed is currently a doctoral student in Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School and an Ordinand in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Before doctoral work, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany and he earned an MA from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN. He has taught Old Testament at North Central University in Minneapolis and is the former Campus Ministry Director at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Saint Paul.

You can connect with Reed at reedcarlson.com.

Richard Newton offers courses in New Testament, African American Religions, Islam, and Theories & Methods in Religious Studies. His seminars examine the intersection of religion and identity (e.g. Ethnicity, Gender, & Religion, and the Bible & Race in the USA, ). Newton’s scholarship revolves around the politics of scripture-making. Active in the academic blogosphere, he curates the student-scholar magazine  Sowing the Seed: Fruitful Conversations on Religion, Culture, and Teaching  and hosts the podcast  Broadcast Seeding: Future Food for Thought  – and on Twitter (@seedpods)..

Rob O’Lynn is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Ministry and Director of Graduate Bible Programs at Kentucky Christian University, is the senior minister for a local congregation and teaches online for some other universities. Rob preached for congregations in Arkansas, Texas, West Virginia and Kentucky was a hospital chaplain and taught at Ohio Valley University. He received his doctorate in homiletics from the Harding School of Theology, and his dissertation focused on the implementation of transformative learning theory in the homiletics classroom.

Rob’s research interests include contemporary homiletics, pedagogy, missional pastoral care, using social media in preaching and teaching, and spirituality in leadership. He has written for a number of journals and websites, and his first book was entitled Practicing Presence: Theory and Practice of Pastoral Care (WestBow Press, 2015). You can find him on Twitter at @DrRobOlynn or at his blog.

Robert Saler is Research Fellow and Director of the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.  His research interests encompass both historical and systematic theology. He has published numerous scholarly articles in areas such as hermeneutics, early modern theology (particularly around the European Reformation and its legacy), ecological theology, and ecclesiology. His book Between Magisterium and Marketplace: A Constructive Account of Theology and the Church is forthcoming from Fortress in 2014. He served as contributing editor for Fortress Press’ revised editions of the textbooks The Christological Controversy and The Trinitarian Controversy (Fortress Press, 2012). His articles and reviews have appeared in such publications as Pro Ecclesia, The Christian Century, Currents in Theology and Mission, The Cresset, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Expositions, and The Lutheran Forum. He is a member of the American Theological Society (Midwest Division) as well as the American Academy of Religion. He has particular interest in “mixed classrooms” of degree and non-degree students, as well as emerging conversations around distributed learning.

Robin Steinke is the President of  Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. Dr. Steinke received her doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge, Great Britain after receiving two masters degrees (M.Div. and S.T.M.) from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH and undergraduate study at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD.

Prior to coming to Luther Seminary, Steinke was the dean of the seminary and professor of theological ethics and public life at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, where she served from 1999. Favorite areas of writing and research include emerging issues and challenges in theological education, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and issues in theology and public life.

Dr. Steinke is currently co-chairing the national ELCA Theological Education Advisory Council that is evaluating and exploring the future of theological education. She serves as the ELCA Representative to the Lutheran World Federation Council and chairs their Endowment Fund. She is a member of the ELCA Ecclesiology Task Force and serves on a number of other church and academic committees. She previously served a six-year term as a commissioner for the Association of Theological Schools’ Commission on Accrediting.

Ryan Torma leads human-centered design processes to help people learn. Working with collaborative teams in higher education and non-profit organizations, he designs: online and hybrid programs and courses; faculty training seminars; classrooms and physical learning spaces

Ryan led the Learning Design and Technology Team at Luther Seminary to provide design and support for curricula and courses in several distributed learning programs, increasing the number of online or hybrid courses by more than 60% over five years and increasing student and faculty satisfaction. Ryan has also provided training in online teaching methods and learning-centered course design practices for faculty members at Luther Seminary, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Trinity Theological Seminary, and members of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Read about the project in Luther Seminary’s Story Magazine. View photos of the classroom.

Ryan has recently started a new project, Designing Higher Ed ( designinghighered.com ), a blog exploring how human-centered design practices can help higher education institutions better meet the needs of their students and thrive in a changing environment. The site is a place to explore, discuss, and share the best thinking on design for higher education. Twitter: @DesignHE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/designinghighered

Ryan also blogs at www.ryantorma.com.

Timothy Snyder is a theologian and scholar of contemporary American religion. He teaches theology and spirituality (adjunct) at Wartburg Theological Seminary and is director of education at Faith Lutheran Church in Cambridge, MA.

As a scholar he has published articles on theological ethnography, the politics of storytelling and the church in contemporary culture. His research and teaching specializes in congregational studies, ethics and spiritual formation. Before beginning doctoral studies, he served as a lay minister in Lutheran congregations in both Texas and Minnesota.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas Lutheran University, a master’s degree from Luther Seminary and is currently completing doctoral studies at Boston University. He is currently a doctoral fellow in the Vocation of the Theological Educator Program at the Louisville Institute.

Yung Suk Kim (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is associate professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia. Kim is editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. Most recently, he received a presidential citation for outstanding service and unselfish commitment from Virginia Union University.

Thus far Dr. Kim has authored five books and edited two volumes. He is completing a new book on New Testament theology and working on a new project on the historical Jesus. Selected publications include: Christ’s Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor (Fortress, 2008); A Theological Introduction to Paul’s Letters: Exploring a Threefold Theology of Paul (Cascade, 2011); Biblical Interpretation: Theory, Process and Criteria (Pickwick, 2013); A Transformative Reading of the Bible: Explorations of Holistic Human Transformation (Cascade, 2013); Truth, Testimony and Transformation: A New Reading of the “I am” Sayings of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (Cascade, 2014). His edited books include 1 and 2 Corinthians (Texts @ Contexts, Fortress, 2013) and Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-first Century: Selected Writings by Ahn Byung-Mu and Modern Critical Responses (Pickwick Publications, 2013). Dr. Kim also published his first Korean book in Korea: Question Mark to the Bible (Dongyeon, 2014). Beyond biblical studies, he also enjoys reading Lao-tzi’s classic wisdom the Dao De Jing and loves to write poems.

Kim has his personal, academic web site at www.youaregood.com and his blog at http://somachristoupaul.blogspot.com