The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for October 2025:

  • Rebecca Copeland
    • Presentation: Tending Gardens: Food, Faith, and Fig Trees,” First United Methodist Church, Morristown, TN. September 18, 2025.
  • Filipe Maia
  • James McCarty
    • Presentation: Speaker, Annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, “Engaging Difference in an Age of Division: The Power of Dialogue and Human Revolution in Restoring Our Shared Humanity,” Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, MA, September 26, 2025.

    • Presentation: Speaker, “Asian Americans, Solidarity, and the Work of Racial Justice,” Methodist Theological School in Ohio, September 30, 2025.

  • Luis Menéndez-Antuña
    • Presentation: Black Lives Matter and the Gospels. Mercer University, GA (October 3, 2025).

    • Presentation: Reading the Bible Latinamente. Dominican University. River Forest, IL (October 1, 2025).

    • Presentation: Creating a Strong Essay and Research Proposal. Doctoral Accompaniment Seminar. Hispanic Summer Program and Hispanic Theological Initiative (September 27, 2025).

    • Presentation: Spiritual Stresses and Opportunities for the Future. Charles River Health Community Center (September 17, 2025).

  • Rady Roldán-Figueroa
    • The Requerimiento and the Theological ‘Knot’ of European Expansionism: Jews, Muslims, and the Arawakan-speaking Peoples of the Caribbean in Juan López de Palacios Rubios’s Juridical Doctrine of Dominion,” Critical Research on Religion vol. 13 (2025).

  • Steven Sandage, et al
    • Choe, E.J.Y., Sandage, S.J., Moussa, R., & Dumitrascu, N. (2025). Humility, differentiation of self, and Rorschach assessment of clergy candidates in the United States: An exploratory study. Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-025-02453-w

  • Andrew Shenton
    • Presentation: “Creativity and the ‘Derivative’ Classical Covers of Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina,” read at the Royal Musical Association annual conference, Southampton, England, September 2025.

  • Shively T. J. Smith
    • in Five Views on the Gospel, ed. Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston, with Michael Horton, Scot McKnight, David A. deSilva, and Julie C. Ma (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2025).

    • “The Second Letter of Peter,” in The Westminster Study Bible with the Deuterocanonical/Apocrypha Books, New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024), 2094-2098.