Faculty scholarship update: Spring and Summer 2019

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School of Divinity faculty publish regularly. This update will help you explore the depth and breadth of our faculty’s most recent publications and ongoing research.

Fred Bahnson is Director of the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ecological Well-Being.

• “The Priest in the Trees,” in Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship, Joseph S. Pagano and Amy E. Richter, eds. (Cascade Books, 2019).

Josh Canzona is Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Part-Time Assistant Teaching Professor of Theology.

• Book Review: The Qur’an and the West by Kenneth Cragg in Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion (April 2019).
• Book Review: The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustín Fuentes in Teilhard Perspective (Fall/Winter 2018-19).
• Elected to the Board of the American Teilhard Association on May 4, 2019.

Derek Hicks is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture.

• “How Much a Dollar Cost?”: Political Ideology, Religion, and Poverty Policy Through the Lens of Kendrick Lamar’s Music,” with Gregory Parks in Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, Volume 28, Number 2, (Spring/Summer 2019).

Sally Ann Morris is Musician-in-Residence.

• Joined the ranks of entry into the Canterbury Dictionary of American Hymnology.
• Premiere of new hymn, “God, You Call Us to Be Prophets,” commissioned to celebrate the re-dedication of the new school building at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

Melissa Rogers is Visiting Professor and Practitioner-in-Residence.

• Faith in American Public Life (Baylor University Press, 2019).
• “Religious Freedom and the Federal Executive Branch: Suggestions for Future Administrations,” in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2019).

Katherine Shaner is Associate Professor of New Testament.

• “Feminist Biblical Interpretation,” in Oxford Handbook of New Testament Gender and Sexuality, Benjamin Dunning, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

John Senior is Director of the Art of Ministry, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Leadership, and Director of the Collaborative.

• Book Review: Practical Theology in Church and Society by Joseph E. Bush, Jr in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (forthcoming).
• “Introduction” and “Mentoring for Ministry in Nonprofit Contexts” in Mentoring: A Toolkit for Supervisor-Mentors in Theological Education, Matthew Floding, ed. (Rowman and Littlefield)
• “Engaging Formational Stories and Pastoral Imagination,” with Matthew Floding, Sung Hee Chang, and Faye Taylor in Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry 39 (Summer 2019)
• “Discernment as Practical Wisdom: Toward a Disruptive Practical Theology of Ministry Leadership,” in Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry 38 (Summer 2018)
• Mentoring: A Toolkit for Supervisor-Mentors in Theological Education, with Matthew Floding, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).
• Mainline Futures: White Privilege, Ministry Leadership, and Christian Community (Manuscript in development).

Melva Sampson is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology.

• “Going live: the making of digital griots and cyber assemblies,” on Practical Matters: A Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology