A Faculty That Puts Theology to Work

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From scholarly books and articles to commentary about breaking news, the wisdom of Garrett’s professors extends far beyond the classroom. Their research strengthens churches, shapes scholarly understanding, and offers ethical insights.

Mai- Anh Tran | September 2025

Practical Wisdom in the Living Web of the Anthropocene

James L. Papandrea | September 2025

The Original Church: What It Meant and Still Means to be a Christian

Rome: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Eternal City

Gennifer Benjamin Brooks | September 2025

Good News Preaching, Second Edition

Ahyun Lee | September 2025

Protestant Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Intercultural Pastoral Care

Ron Anderson | October 2025

“Hear, Listen, Attend: Liturgy in an Age of Distraction”

Kate Ott | November 2025

“The Parables Ethic: Practicing Just Futures with Young People” in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

Mattering Faith: Community-Based Initiatives to Measure Environmental Racism

Kenneth Ngwa | December 2025

“Rocky, Earthy Dreams” in Preaching Black Earth

Rolf Nolasco | December 2025

“Disentangling Integration of Psychology and Theology: A Decolonial Critique and Improvisation in Spiritual Care and Counseling” in Journal of Psychology and Theology 53

Javier Viera | December 2025

“El camino del amor.” In Generación tras Generación

Nancy Bedford | December 2025

“La teología ante la violencia feminicida,” Enfoques feministas de transformación intercultural. Reconciliación y construcción de la paz, ed. María Pilar Aquino, Mónica A. Maher, María del Carmen Servitje Montull (Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2025), 349-376.

“Resistance, Otherwise: Considerations on Nonviolence in the Context of the Russian War on Ukraine,” The War Between Russia and Ukraine. An Intercontinental Peace Ethical Conversation, ed. Nicole Kunkel and Torsten Meireis (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2025), 177-191.

“Vision of a World and a Church that Enables Women to Develop Freely,” Women in the One World. Feminist Perspectives, ed. Klaus Vellguth (Freiburg in Breisgau: Herder, 2025), 243-251.

“Meditaciones caleidoscópicas: Hacer teología feminista desde lo somático, lo espiritual y lo intelectual,” Hermenéuticas y metodologías teológicas feministas, ed. Silvia Martínez Cano and Antonia Maria Wozna (Estella: Editorial Verbo Divino, 2025), 41-72.

“Decolonizing Grace,” Messianic Imagination. Politics, Theology, and Literature, ed. Joseph R. Wiebe, Paul G. Doerksen, Maxwell Kennel, Grant Poettcker (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025), 93-105.

“Apoyándonos,” La mayordomía. Devocionales diarios desde la mirada de Jesús, ed. AAVV (MTAL: Movimiento de Mujeres Anabautistas. Haciendo Teología desde América Latina, 2026), 248.

Débora Junker | December 2025

Devocional Gratidão 100 años

AHyun Lee | December 2025

“When Theological Education Feels Like Amazon Prime Service” for Wabash Center

Dong Hyeon Jeon | December 2025

Review of Sébastien Doane’s book Reading the Bible Amid Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermaneutics published in Review of Biblical Literature January 2026

Foreward for Osvaldo D. Vena’s book The Gospel and the Playground: Reading the Gospel of Mark Using Jewish, Palestinian, and Argentine Children’s Poetry

Wonhee Anne Joh | March 2026

Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christologytranslated into Korean

James L. Papandrea | March 2026

Praying the Wisdom: Inspired Prayers for Lectio Divina and Contemplative Prayer

Nancy Bedford | March 2026

“Seeking Pentecostiality: Worship Practices at Reba Place Church” in Worship Through Latin American Eyes

Javier Viera | March 2026

“Church must do the messy work of restoring community” in UMNews

Dong Hyeon Jeong | April 2026

“A Report on the State of Biblical Scholarship in the Phillippines: An Unexpected Virtual Rhizomatic Emergence of Cellphone-Social Media as ‘Publishing House’ of the Mass” in Currents in Biblical Research 24

Nancy Bedford | April 2026

Book Review: Touched by This Place. Theology, Community, and the Power of Place by Benjamin Valentín in Theology Today

Débora Junker | April 2026

“Capítulo VIII: Caminhos Pedagógicos: Desiocamentos no escaco/tempo in O Pensamento Reigotiano na Educacao (Ambiental)

AHyun Lee | May 2026

“The Burden of Sixty Years of Silence” in the Persistent

“The Lies of Collaborative Pedagogies” in Wabash Center

“A Betrayal of Refuge” in Christian Century

Anna Marie Johnson | May 2026

Reforming Faith

Nancy Bedford | May 2026

“Salvation” in The Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies

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From the Academy to the Public Square

Dr. AHyun Lee’s new book on clergy sexual abuse in immigrant communities was a groundbreaking work of scholarship. Then she took that conversation into a world that badly needs to hear it.