Prior to his arrival at SMU, he served as Canon Educator and Director of Programs in Spirituality and Religious Education at Washington National Cathedral; special assistant to the President and Provost of La Salle University in Philadelphia; a Fellow of the American Council on Education; and Dean of St. George's College in Jerusalem. He has also served in numerous parishes in the United States and abroad.

His work in higher education includes service as a lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University, and as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. He has been a guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas, Dallas.

He is the author of numerous published articles and reviews, including forty-four entries in Doubleday's Anchor Bible Dictionary, as well as contributions to Feminist Theology andThe Scottish Journal of Theology. He is author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination and the Church (Syracuse University Press, 1998); The Changing Face of God (Morehouse-Continuum, 2000); When Suffering Persists (Morehouse, 2001), in Italian translation: Sofferenza, All ricerca di una riposta (Torino: Claudiana, 2004); Conversations with Scripture: Revelation (Morehouse, 2005); What God Wants for Your Life, Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005); and Conversations with Scripture: Luke (Morehouse, 2009).

His more recent work includes an article co-written for The Heythrop Journal with Drs. Jeff Bishop and Philipp Rosemann, entitled, "Fides ancilla medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine."

In addition to his work in the academy and the church Dr. Schmidt currently serves on Data Safety Monitoring Boards for the National Institutes of Health and Allergan, Inc.

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