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Dr. <\/span>Timothy Adkins-Jones is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics and his research focus includes Black preaching, preaching and protest, communal homiletics, and church leadership.<\/p>\nHis,\u00a0<\/span>Let the Church Say Amen<\/em>!\u00a0<\/span>Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Fortress Press) focuses on the conversation that the congregation has with the preacher before, during, and after the sermon, and how that conversation shapes both the content and delivery of the sermon.<\/p>\n He is currently working on a second monograph that examines the complex relationship between preaching and protest, using the sermons preached in or around \u201cBloody Sunday (1965)\u201d in Selma, AL and the \u201cHoodie Sunday\u201d sermons preached in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin\u2019s murder in 2012.\u00a0 Tentatively titled,\u00a0<\/span>Preaching and Protest: From Bloody Sunday to Hoodie Sunday,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>this work will categorize the different ways that preaching and protest interact, offer a definition for \u201cprotest preaching,\u201d and offer some exemplary examples of this genre of preaching.<\/p>\n He is in the process of completing his first book titled,\u00a0<\/span>Making Sense of Life with God: Religious Stories Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty (<\/i><\/span>Brill\u2019s Theology in Practice Series). He is on the steering committee of the Society for Pastoral Theology (SPT)<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/span>and in 2022, became the co-editor-elect of the\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Pastoral Theology<\/i><\/span>. He is also a former editor (2016-2018) of\u00a0<\/span>Practical Matters: Journal of Practical Theology and Religious Practices<\/i><\/span>\u00a0at Emory University\u2019s Graduate Division of Religion. Recently, Dr. Cho became the project consultant for the\u00a0<\/span>Trauma-Responsive Congregations<\/i><\/span>\u00a0project at STH, which is led by Dr. Shelly Rambo and generously supported by the Lily Endowment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Wolfteich published the monograph\u00a0<\/span>Motherwork, Public Leadership, and Women\u2019s Life Writing: Explorations in Spirituality Studies and Practical Theology (<\/em>Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2017), a book that explores mothering as spiritual practice through the life writing of women from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe to twentieth-century lay leaders Dorothy Day and Dolores Huerta. She also has designed and edited two volumes on Catholic scholarship and practical theology:\u00a0<\/span>Catholic Approaches in Practical Theology: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2016), co-edited with Annemie Dillen, and\u00a0Invitation to\u00a0Practical Theology: Catholic Voices and Visions<\/em>\u00a0(Paulist Press, 2014). With colleague Bryan Stone, she wrote\u00a0<\/span>Sabbath in the City: Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence<\/em>\u00a0(Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), the fruit of a five-year grant project funded by the Lilly Endowment. In addition, she has authored several other books on spirituality:\u00a0Lord, Have Mercy: Praying for Justice with Conviction and Humility<\/em>\u00a0(San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2006);\u00a0Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women\u2019s Spiritual Lives<\/em>\u00a0(Paulist Press, 2002), and\u00a0American Catholics Through the Twentieth Century: Spirituality, Lay Experience, and Public Life<\/em>\u00a0(Crossroad Publishing Co., 2001).<\/p>\n Dr. Wolfteich serves on editorial boards for several scholarly journals, including\u00a0International Journal of Practical Theology<\/em>;\u00a0Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality<\/em>; and\u00a0The Way: A Review of Christian Spirituality, p<\/em>ublished by the British Jesuits.\u00a0In addition, she is on the\u00a0Editorial Board of the Theology in Practice Series (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers). She enjoys integrating teaching and scholarship and connecting the academy with the lives of faith communities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Timothy L. Adkins-Jones Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics and his research focus includes Black preaching, preaching and protest, communal homiletics, and church leadership. His,\u00a0Let the Church Say Amen!\u00a0Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic\u00a0(Fortress Press) focuses on the conversation that the congregation has with the preacher before, during, and after the sermon, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1743,"featured_media":0,"parent":439,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/6071"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Eunil David Cho<\/h4>\n
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Dr. Eunil David Cho is an Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling at the Boston University School of Theology (STH). He is a practical theologian whose research in pastoral theology and spiritual care, especially among immigrant and refuge<\/span>e communities, engages the fields of narrative theories, psychology of religion, and sociology of religion. He approaches spiritual care from the position of an ethnic and racial minority by integrating proficiency in critical race theory, global migration, qualitative research methods, and Asian American studies. As a scholar-practitioner, he is committed to teaching out of his personal and academic expertise as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a chaplain in a way that contributes to the transformation of personal, communal, and public life.<\/p>\nCourtney Goto<\/h4>\n
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Dr. Courtney T. Goto is Associate Professor of Religious Education and a co-Director for the Center for Practical Theology. Her research interests include intersections of racism, culture, and faith; as well as aesthetic teaching and learning, creativity, and embodied knowing. She is author of\u00a0<\/span>Taking on Practical Theology: The Idolization of Context and the Hope of Community<\/em>\u00a0(Brill, 2018). In this book, she explores the regnant paradigm to which the field of practical theology is captive, reflecting on issues of power and privilege in knowledge production from her perspective as a Japanese American. Goto is also author of\u00a0<\/span>The Grace of Playing: Pedagogies for Leaning into God\u2019s New Creation\u00a0<\/em>(Pickwick, 2016). She designs courses that explore both theory and practices, often through experiential learning and community-based research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nClaire E. Wolfteich<\/h4>\n
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Dr. Claire Wolfteich is Professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality Studies at Boston University School of Theology. Her teaching and research interests include Christian spirituality; religion and public life; theology and practice; theologies of vocation, work, and family; lay spirituality; spiritual autobiographies; and American Catholicism. She co-directs the Center for Practical Theology and is Project Director of the Creative Callings research grant project and innovation hub (www.creativecallingsproject.org<\/a>), funded by the Lilly Endowment. Dr. Wolfteich is a past President of the International Academy of Practical Theology and of the Association of Practical Theology. She also is a past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.<\/p>\n<\/h1>\n
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