Sharon Galgay Ketcham, Professor of Theology and Christian Ministries, Gordon College, MA Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? I love teaching theology to undergrads for two reasons. First, it provides an opportunity to introduce them to the long and varied ways in which Christians have made sense of faith and life. For many students, they are familiar with the biblical narrative and some theological terms. Yet when they learn about the early councils, the differences between... Read more

Soong-Chan Rah, Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism, North Park Theological Seminary Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? I appreciate the intellectual curiosity and the hunger to learn that is evident in my students. They want to grow in their knowledge and wisdom about their faith and how they apply their faith into the real world and to their ministry context. I appreciate the diverse context and social reality of our student body.... Read more

Josh McNall, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Oklahoma Wesleyan University Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? I find the conversation between Scripture, tradition, philosophy, and lived experience to be endlessly fascinating. There is often a resonance between debates in the first or fourth or sixteenth centuries and the questions of today. Hence theology can serve the church not only by training future leaders but by reminding all Christians that we have need (to cite W. H.... Read more

So excited to introduce you to one of my close friends and an amazing preacher and theologian. Definitely read all of his books.  A.J. Swoboda, Assistant Professor of Bible, Theology and World Christianity, Bushnell University (Eugene, OR) Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? Through theology, I love surprising my Christian students with how much bigger God is than they thought; and surprising my non-Christian students with how much better God is than they thought. What is... Read more

Lucy Peppiatt Principal, Westminster Theological Centre Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology?  I love God and am fascinated by everything about him, so the idea that I can teach and research ideas about God for a job is the dream as far as I’m concerned. I love teaching theology in the setting that I do, largely among evangelical charismatic Christians, because many of them come from backgrounds where academic theology was treated with suspicion and where... Read more

Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? Theology, of course, involves thinking and talking about God. What could be more wonderful—joyful, challenging, inspiring—than such a pursuit? Theology also involves thinking and talking about human persons in their relationship with God, and God to them. This gets complicated. Taken together, these two aspects cover about everything there is in life, but from a direction that... Read more

I got a chance to spend time learning from Dr. Amy Oden in person last year. She has so much wisdom to offer, and she engages with others with humility and grace. Amy Oden, Independent Scholar, Early Christian History and Spirituality Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? I love teaching Christian theology because I get to accompany students on expeditions of discovery. Every day with students is a big exploration into the wide-open spaces of theology... Read more

Fleming Rutledge  Why do you love teaching, preaching, researching, and writing about theology? First of all I love theology because it is my calling from God. Everyone who knew me as a pre-teen observed that I was intensely interested in theological doctrine. A calling—any calling—is something God gives, at his pleasure. I’m sure that, for example, Dr. Francis Collins would tell the same story about science (not that I’m in his class). If you love a worthy subject and give... Read more

Dr. Willie James Jennings, Associate Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology? It allows me to think and talk about God and life with people for whom that combination is very important. What is one “big idea” in your scholarship? What and how is race? Where did it come from and why is Christianity so deeply involved in the racial formation of the western world? These are some... Read more