Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bluffton University. He has been named the Pathways Civic Engagement Theme Scholar for 2007-2008 at Bluffton University. In this role he will begin work researching, writing and creating material for a Contemporary Anabaptist Bestiary Project. Through sermons, songs, visual art, and popular science, this project will explore God’s self-revelation in the pattern of life of a variety of animals from cherubim to cats. Malinda Elizabeth Berry is a Ph.D. candidate at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She is currently a dissertation fellow at Goshen College, where she graduated from in 1996 with a B.A. She also holds an M.A. in Peace Studies from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Her dissertation in systematic theology is a comparative study of Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King Jr. and their understandings of love and justice. She co-edited Wrestling with the Text: Young Adult Perspectives on Scripture (Cascadia, 2007). Susan L. Biesecker is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Dayton (Oh.) and is author of numerous academic articles on ancient Greek, twentieth-century feminist, and radical Anabaptist rhetorics. She co-edited Anabaptists and Postmodernity and is currently completing a manuscript on the visual rhetorics of tourism in Amish Country. Laura L. Brenneman is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bluffton University. She holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from the University of Durham (England). Her forthcoming book, Corporate Discipline and the People of God, presents a Pauline theology of community discipline and restoration with a focus on the Corinthian correspondence. Thomas Finger devotes his time to writing on Anabaptist theology, history, and spirituality; and to ecumenical and interfaith relations, representing Mennonite churches. Presently, this includes dialogue with Iranian religious and political leaders. He also teaches world religions part-time. He is the author of A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology (InterVarsity, 2004); Self, Earth and Society (InterVarsity, 1997); and Christian Theology: An Eschatological Approach (2 vols., Herald, 1985 and 1989). More recently, both he and Denny Weaver contributed essays to John Sanders, ed., Atonement and Violence (Abingdon, 2006). Ray C. Gingerich is Professor of Theology and Ethics, Emeritus, at Eastern Mennonite University and currently serves as director of the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society. In addition to numerous scholarly articles in the fields of theology, ethics, and Anabaptist history, he has co-edited Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture (Cascadia, 2006) and Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice, and the Domination System (Fortress, 2006). Jeff Gundy is Professor of English at Bluffton University. His poetry collections include Deerflies, Rhapsody with Dark Matter, and, most recently, Spoken among the Trees. He is the author of Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing (Cascadia, 2006), Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (SUNY, 2003), and A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (Illinois, 1996). Harry Huebner is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Canada. He is a graduate of the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto with a PhD (1982) in theology. He is co-author of Church as Parable: Whatever Happened to Ethics? (1993), and author of Echoes of the Word: Theological Ethics as Rhetorical Practice (2005). He has edited several books and contributed several articles in books and journals on the subject of Christian ethics. His research interests are in philosophical theology and ethics. Loren L. Johns is Associate Professor of New Testament at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Johns has written numerous academic books and articles, including The Lamb Christology and the Apocalypse of John (2003). He has edited several books, most recently Even the Demons Submit: Continuing Jesus’ Ministry of Deliverance (2006), and Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Volume 3: Damascus Document Fragments, the Torah, and Related Documents (2006). Janeen Bertsche Johnson is a 1986 graduate of Bluffton University, where she worked three years as J. Denny Weaver’s research assistant and took nine of the ten classes he taught. She graduated from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in 1989, served as a pastor in Wichita, Kansas from 1989-1995, and has been Campus Pastor at AMBS since 1995. She is a member of the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board and has served on numerous other denominational, conference, and congregational committees and boards. Randy Keeler is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bluffton University and directs the youth ministry undergraduate program. Keeler, who holds a Master of Divinity from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, served for many years as the campus pastor at Bluffton. Before coming to Bluffton, Keeler served as a congregational youth pastor and also was a conference youth minister for Eastern District and Franconia conferences. He is currently a Doctor of Ministry candidate at Fuller Theological Seminary. Kathleen Kern has worked for Christian Peacemaker Teams since 1993, serving on assignments in Haiti, Washington, D.C., West Bank, Chiapas, Colombia, South Dakota and Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the author of We Are the Pharisees (Herald Press 1995) and the novel, Where Such Unmaking Reigns (2003). She is working on a general history of CPT from 1986 to 2006 and As Resident Aliens: CPT’s work in the West Bank 1995-2005, both of which will be published by Wipf and Stock Press. Kern also writes regular reflections for the Mennonite press. Chris Marshall is the St. John’s Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He was first exposed to Anabaptism during doctoral studies in the United Kingdom. Since returning to his native New Zealand in 1986, he has maintained close contacts with Mennonites in the U.S and elsewhere. Among his numerous publications are Faith as a Theme in Mark’s Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Kingdom Come: The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (Impetus Publications, 1993), Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime and Punishment (Eerdmans, 2001), Crowned with Glory and Honor: Human Rights in the Biblical Tradition (Pandora Press U.S./Herald Press, 2001), and The Little Book of Biblical Justice (Good Books, 2005). Gerald J. Mast is Professor of Communication at Bluffton University. He recently wrote Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion (Cascadia, 2006). Together with J. Denny Weaver, he edited Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts (2003), and co-edited Anabaptists and Postmodernity (2000). Mast has published articles in such journals as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, and Fides et Historia. Jason R. Moyer is currently a graduate student at the University of Iowa, where he studies rhetoric and public advocacy in the communication studies department. He completed his B.A. from Bluffton University and his M.A from Bowling Green State University. Raymond F. Person Jr. is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University. A member of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio, Person has published numerous books in the field of Hebrew Bible studies, including The Deuteronomic School (2002), Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature (1999), The Kings/Isaiah and Kings/Jeremiah Recensions (1997), and Conversations with Jonah: Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism, and the Book of Jonah (1996). Jane Roeschley holds an MA in Christian Formation from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. She currently serves as the Associate Pastor of the Mennonite Church of Normal, Illinois, with a focus on worship and lay ministry development. J. Alexander Sider is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bluffton University. He received his doctorate in theology and ethics from Duke University, and has authored numerous scholarly articles. He is co-editor of the Polyglossia Series with Herald Press. Alain Epp Weaver served with Mennonite Central Committee in the Middle East for eleven years, most recently as the representative for Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. He is the author of States of Exile: Visions of Diaspora, Witness, and Return (Herald Press, 2008). He also edited Under Vine and Fig Tree: Biblical Theologies of Land and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (2007) and, with Peter Dula, Borders and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World (2007), both published by Cascadia. |
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