2026 SCE Slate of Nominees

Candidates for Vice President

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez
PhD: Princeton Theological Seminary, 2004, Systematic Theology

Position(s): Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, 2018 – present, Clarence Louis and Helen Steber Professor in Theological Studies, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, 2022-2025
Associate Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, 2010-2018, Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, 2004-2010, Adjunct Instructor, Theology, Memphis Theological Seminary, 2002-2004

SCE Participation: 
Professional Conduct Committee, 2023 - present
Nominations Committee, 2022
Chair, Communications and Records Committee, 2020-2021
Board of Directors, 2017-2021
Board of Directors, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2012-2016
Co-convener, Latino/a Working and Interest Groups, Society of Christian Ethics, 2014-2020
Breakfast/Conversation with the Author (2018, 2024, 2025)
Active participant in the Latino/a Interest Group
Active participant in the Latino/a Working Group
Active participant in the Reformed Theology and Ethics Interest Group

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Masters Programs in Theological Studies coordinator at Saint Louis University, 2012-2015, 2019-present; Director of the Mev Puleo Scholarship Program in Latin American Theology, Politics, and Culture (2010-present); President of La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the AAR/SBL, 2022-present; Status of Racial & Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee, American Academy of Religion, 2012-2016; Constructive-Reflective Studies Book Prize Jury, American Academy of Religion, 2017-2021 (chair 2021); Moderator, Commission for Preparation for Ministry, Presbytery of Giddings Lovejoy, 2022-present

Select Publications:
Calvin for the World: The Enduring Relevance of His Political, Social, and Economic Theology. Baker Academic Press, 2024
Theological Fragments: Confessing What We Know and Cannot Know about an Infinite God. Westminster John Knox Press, 2023
T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology. Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019
Dogmatics After Babel: Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018
Christian Martyrdom and Political Violence: A Comparative Theology with Judaism and Islam. Cambridge University Press, 2017
Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective. New York University Press, 2008
“Rethinking Radical Nonviolence: Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Racism,” in Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching, ed. by Todd Walatka (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024)
“Human Uniqueness, Divine Interrelationality, and the Hope of Ecofeminist Theology,” in World Christianity and Ecological Theologies, ed. by Raimundo Barreto and Wanderley Pereira da Rosa (Fortress Press, 2024)
“Environmental Racism, Global Warming, and Human Flourishing,” in Theology and Ethics of Oppressed and Marginalized Peoples: Social Ethics and Agency in World Christianity, Raimundo Barreto and Nimi Wariboko, eds. (Fortress Press, 2025)
“Beyond Binary Moral and Political Advocacy on Abortion” in Ethics and Advocacy: Building Bridges, Marking Boundaries, ed. by Harlan Beckley, Douglas Ottati, Matthew Petrusek, and William Schweiker (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022)

Other: The John E. Fetzer Institute Fellow, Shared Sacred Story Project, 2022-2024; Saint Louis University Research Institute Fellow, 2023-present; First Book Grant Program for Minority Scholars, The Louisville Institute (2005)


Jennifer Harvey
PhD: Union Theological Seminary

Position(s): 
Vice President for Academic Affairs & Academic Dean, Garrett Seminary, fall 2023-present
Professor of Christian Ethics, Garrett Seminary, fall 2023-present
Associate Provost for Equity and Inclusion, Drake University, 2021-2023
Professor of Christian Ethics, Drake University 2004-2021 (Visiting, 2004, Assistant 2005-2008, Associate 2008-2015)
Faculty Director, Crew Scholars Program at Drake University, 2008-2021 

SCE Participation: 
“Which Way to Justice? Reconciliation and Reparations in U.S. Protestantism” Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), January 2010 
“What We Whites Must Do to Diversify the Society of Christian Ethics” (invited panelist), SCE, January 2008 
Board Member, Society of Christian Ethics (elected), 2013-2017 
Society of Christian Ethics, 2003-present
 “Which Way to Justice: Reconciliation, Reparations and the Problem of Whiteness in US Protestantism,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 31, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2011). 
Breakfast with an author, January 2015 annual meeting (for book Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation) 

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Women’s Caucus Co-Convener, American Academy of Religion, 2000-2003
Task Force on the Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession, AAR (appointed), 2007-2011
Mentor, AAR Pilot Mentoring Program, 2013-14
Program Reviewer, Religion and Sexuality Group, American Academy of Religion (AAR), Fall 2013

Select Publications:
Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities and Help Create a Just World (forthcoming, St. Martin’s Press, July 2024). 
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, 2nd edition (revised prose, new preface and appendix by the author, and a foreword by the Rev. Traci Blackmon), (Wm. Eerdmans Press, 2020). 
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Press, 2014). 
Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice through Reparations and Sovereignty (Palgrave Macmilllan, 2007). 
Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What We Need to Do, edited by Jennifer Harvey, Karin A. Case, Robin Hawley Gorsline (Pilgrim Press, 2004). 
“For God So Loves the World,” Kingdom Come: Reflections in Honor of Jonathan R. Wilson edited by Jason Byassee, Jeremy Kidwell, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Leah Wilson-Hartgrove (Cascase Books, 2022).
“Raising Antiracist White Kids: What’s wrong with the Golden Rule, ‘Listen to your teacher,’ and ‘Follow the rules’ in Playgrounds and Picket Signs: Raising Kids with a Commitment to Peace and Justice (Fortress Press, 2020).
“Shall We Awake?” in Between the World of Ta-nehisi Coates and Christianity edited by Peter Dula and David Evans (Wipf & Stock 2018).
“‘White Work’ in the Journey of Racial Justice,” in Trouble the Water: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice edited by Michael-Ray Mathews et al, (Nurturing Faith, 2017).
“Police Brutality: Understanding and Intervening,” in Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds edited by David Maxwell (Westminster John Knox Press, 2016).
“Complex, Persistent Constructions: The Significance of Race in the Study of Religion,” in Just Religion edited by Anthony Pinn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 

Other:
“The Kids I Coach are the Living Rejection of anti-LGBTQ Hate. They Shouldn’t Have to Be,” on CNN.com (June 29, 2022).
“White Parents, It’s Time to the Do the Work Honoring Black History,” with Melanie L. Harris on CNN.com (March 1, 2021).
“The Kenosha Shooting: The Conversation White Parents Need to Have with their Kids after Kenosha,” on Cnn.com (August 31, 2020)
“How Changing One Word in Church Could Radically Transform America,” on Cnn.com (August 5, 2020)“Parents Must Teach their Kids to Oppose Racism,” on Cnn.com (June 3, 2020)
Guest Expert on The Tamron Hall Show, “Is There Racial Tension Between Woman?” (September 2020).
CNN Live Town Hall on Racism with Sesame Street (June 2020)
Guest Expert on Good Morning America (June 2020)
Featured Guest on All Things Considered: Weekend Edition with Michel Martin (May 31, 2020)
Featured Guest on “Talk of Iowa,” Iowa Public Radio (June 2020).
Featured Guest on “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders,” National Public Radio (August 12, 2018).


Candidates for Board of Directors: Full Members

Anna Floerke Scheid
PhD: Boston College, 2009, Theological Ethics

Position(s):
Associate Professor, Theology, Duquesne University 2016 - present
Assistant Professor, Theology, Duquesne University 2009-2015
Instructor, Duquesne University, 2007-2009

SCE Participation:
JSCE Editorial Board 2018-2021
Concurrent Session Paper Presentations 2025, 2023, 2016, 2012, 2010
JSCE Publications articles: "Waging a Just Revolution: Just War Criteria in the Context of Oppression," Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 32.2, (Fall/Winter 2012): 153-172.; "Under the Palaver Tree: Community Ethics for Truth-Telling and Reconciliation" Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 31.1, (Spring 2011): 17-36.
JSCE Book Review 40.1 (2020); 32.2 (2012).
Interest Group Presentations: Ethics and Law IG (2025); Climate Justice IG (2021); Restorative Justice IG (2015).
Peer Reviewer for JSCE (15-20 reviews)
Breakfast with an Author for my book "Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance and Social Transformation" (2017)
Member since 2011
Nominating Committee 2022-2023
Concurrent Session Convener 2017

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Co-Chair, Duquesne University Day for Learning and Speaking Out (DLSO) against Racial Injustice (2017-2023)
Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Co-Chair North American Regional Committee (2016-2020) Catholic Theological Society of America Catholic Social Thought Administrative Team (2014-2017).
Beacon Hill Friends House, Boston MA Board of Managers 2005-2007.

Select Publications:
Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance and Social Transformation, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2015).
“Social Media Algorithms, Christian Extremism, and Catholic Ethics for Faith-Based Advocacy to Build a Culture of Encounter,” Political Theology, June (2024): DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2024.2366579
“Renewing the Challenge of Peace through the Promise of Active Nonviolence,” Studies in Christian Ethics, (2024). DOI: 10.1177/09539468241261190
"Christian Peace Ethics: Trends in the International (Anglophone) Debate," in Jahrbuchfur Christliche Sozialwissenschaften, 59 (2018): 253-290.
"Waging a Just RevJanuary Just War Criteria in the Context of Oppression," Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 32.2, (Fall/Winter 2012): 153-172.
"Interpersonal and Social Reconciliation: Finding Congruence in African Theological Anthropology," Horizons, 39.1 (Spring 2012): 27-49.
"Under the Palaver Tree: Community Ethics for Truth-Telling and Reconciliation" Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 31.1, (Spring 2011): 17-36.
"Teaching Race: Pedagogical Challenges in Largely White Undergraduate Theology Classrooms," co-authored with Elisabeth T. Vasko, Teaching Theology and Religion, 17.1, (January, 2014): 27-45.
"Discipleship or Duplicity? A Christian "No" to white Christian Nationalism" in In Sheep's Clothing: The Idiolatry of White Christian Nationalism, George Yancy, ed. Rowman & Littlefield, (2023).
"The Virtues of Democratic Disobedience: Catholic Ethics and Political Resistance," co¬ authored with Matthew Shadle, forthcoming in Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives, David Gides, ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023).

Other:
Member College Theology Society (slated as plenary speaker for 2026 convention)
Member Catholic Theological Society of America 

Selected public scholarship and scholarly presentations: “Digital Information Literacy for Mercy, Justice, and the Common Good,” Carlow University Atkins Center for Ethics, Pittsburgh, PA. October 2025. 
"Decry Hatred: Religion, Truth, and Reconciliation” Nostra Aetate Lecture, St. Edward’s University, March 2025.
"Catholic Social Teaching and Political Responsibility," Faith and Democracy in CrisisWorkshop Series, Spirit of Grace, Portland, OR, October,2022.
"Christianity and U.S. Politics after the Epiphany Insurrection," Panelist, Catholic Theological Society of America (Webinar), March 2021.
"Public Theology in the Service of Dialogue amidst Polarization," Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry, February 2019.
Three workshops:•"Polarization, Power, and Dialogue"•"Practices for Dialogue"•"Taking Theology Public: What do we do with all this dialogue?"
"Disrupting the False Peace: Christian Political Resistance from Jesus to Black Lives Matter," Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
“Discipleship or Duplicity: Resisting Christian Nationalism,” Association of Pittsburgh Priests, September, 2025.
"Just War Theory and Why Ukraine Has a Right to Defend Itself," co-authored with Tobias Winright, The Tablet, March 22, 2022. 
"Of Encounters and Extremists: How Religion Can Contribute to the Common Good on Social Media," The Berkley Forum at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. November 30, 2021. Available athttps://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/ of-encounters-and-extremists-how-reli gion-can¬ contribute-to-the-common- good-on-social-media
"Hospitality and Solidarity, Not Hostility and Hate: Statement of Christian Ethicists without Borders on Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Xenophobia" co-authored with Tobias Winright, Grace Kao, MT Davila, Christine McCarthy. October 31, 2018. Available athttps://dailytheology.org/2018/10/31/hospitality-and-s olidari ty-not-hostilit y-and-hate-statement¬ of-christian-ethicists-without-borders-on-anti-semitism-racism-xenophobia/
"A Statement from Ethicists Without Borders on White Supremacy and Racism," co-authored with Tobias Winright, MT Davila, and Matthew Tapie. August 14, 2017. Available at https://dailytheology.org/2017/08/14/a-statement-frQm-christian-ethicists-without-bon :le rs-on¬ white-supremacy-and- racism/

Selected Awards:
Selected participant, Classrooms Without Borders, Poland Personally seminar. Spring-Summer, 2024. Grefenstette Center for Law, Ethics, and Technology, Duquesne University. Faculty Scholar Fellowship. 2021-2022.
Nominated, Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Faculty Teaching Award, 2019.
Presidential Scholarship Award, 2014. Duquesne University Research and Writing Grant, $5000.00.
Creative Teaching Award, 2014. Duquesne University Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-awarded with Elisabeth Vasko, Ph.D.; Project Title: Teaching Race: Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Core Theology Courses. 
Catholic Press Association Award, 2013. Second Place, Best Feature Article in a Scholarly Magazine for "Interpersonal and Social Reconciliation: Finding Congruence in African Theological Anthropology."


Daniel P. Rhodes
PhD: Duke University Divinity School, 2013; Political Theology and Ethics

Position(s):
Clinical Professor and Director of Contextual Education, Loyola University Chicago, Institute of Pastoral Studies (2014 - Present)
Co-President, The Black Mountain School of Theology & Community (2020 - Present)
SCE Participation:
Convener Liturgy and Ethics Interest Group (2018 - 2023)
Convener for Session (3 times)
Panelist (2 times)
Referee for JSCE (3 times)
Presented Paper: “The Place of Moral Formation: Why Teaching Outside the Academy May Offer a Better Site for Learning Ethics,” presented at the Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (January 9, 2025) for the Building the Moral Arc Together: Ethics and Ethicists Beyond the Academy session
Presented Paper: “Virtue and Power: Constructing a New Politics of the Collective Good,” presented at the Annual Meeting, Cost Mesa, CA (moved online because of Covid) (January 9, 2022)
Presented Paper: “Theology as Social Activity: Theological Action Research and Teaching the Knowledge of Christian Ethics,” presented at the Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 12, 2020).
Paper Presented: “Life in the Struggle: Liturgical Innovation in the Face of Cultural Devastation of Disaster Capitalism,” presented at the Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA (January 6, 2017), for the Liturgy and Ethics Interest Group
Member since 2010

Academic Leadership (outside of SCE):
Board Member, the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), Latine and Black Catholic Organizing Organization in Chicago, IL. 
Co-President, The Black Mountain School of Theology & Community, institution focused on non-formal theological education and organizing training for diverse congregations and faith communities
Advisory Board Member and Planning Committee Member, The Catholic Collaborative for Organizing (CCO), diverse network of Catholic organizing groups committed to social change4) 
Decades of work in community organizing for building equity and democratic inclusion
Editor in Chief for The Other Journal (2008 - 2018)

Select Publications:
Christian Ethics and Social Renewal: From Dystopia and Utopia to Apocalyptic (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026).
Can I Get a Witness: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice, coedited with Charles Marsh and Shea Tuttle (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2019).
Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Changing Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World, coauthored with Tim Conder (Chalice Press, 2017).
“Life with the Parish: Jack Egan and a Chicago Neighborhood’s Fight for Housing Justice,” in People Get Ready: Twelve Jesus-Haunted Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers in Pursuit of Justice, edited by Peter Slade, et al. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2022), 215-236.
“A New Geography of Theological Education and the Ethics of Community-Centered Learning,” with Timothy Conder and Angela Cowser, Religion & Education (Special Issue on the Ethics of Community-Based Education), Vol. 50, No. 1-2 (2024): 120-139.
“Virtue and Power: The Narrative of Reason and the Reasoning of Public Narratives in the Construction of a New Politics of the Collective Good,” Political Theology, Vol. 24, No 5. (2023): 486-506, published online Oct. 24, 2022.
“Theology as Social Activity: Theological Action Research and Teaching the Knowledge of Christian Ethics and Practical Ministry,” Scottish Journal of Theology, 73, no. 4 (2020): 340–57.
“Whose Revolution? Which Future? The Legacy of Alasdair MacIntyre for a Radical Pedagogy in Virtue,” coauthored with M. Therese Lysaught, Expositions, Vol. 14, No.1 (2020): 97-125.
“Life in the Struggle: Liturgical Innovation in the Face of Cultural Devastation of Disaster Capitalism,” Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June, 2020): 94-114.
“The Cost of Cheap Freedom and the Liberation of Discipleship,” Review and Expositor, Vol. 116, No.1 (2019): 75-82.

Selected Awards:
Member of the Association of Theological Field Educators and Catholic Association of Theological Field EducatorsGrantsThriving Congregations Initiative, Scaling Grant, Collaboration with Montreat Conference Center and The Black Mountain School of Theology & Community (Lilly Endowment--$1Million) – 2025-2030 Thriving Congregations Initiative, Collaboration between Montreat Conference Center and The Black Mountain School of Theology & Community (Lilly Endowment--$1 Million) – 2020-2025 Public Scholarship:Theological Geography: Reading and Making Space with a Kingdom Vision--A Manual of Participatory Research Practices for Parishes and Congregations (Funded by the ACTA Foundation, in process)“Out of the Treasure, the New that is Old: An Essay Review of Aaron Stauffer’s Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing, Syndicate Theology, August 6, 2025.“What’s the Deal with Organizing? What it is, how it works, and why our churches (desperately) need it,” The Other Journal, Issue 34 (2022)“The Inequality of Mammon and the Spirit of the Gospel,” A Matter of Spirit (A publication of the Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center), No. 123 (Summer 2019): 13.“It’s time to give the parishes back to the people—literally: An (Im)modest Proposal for Church Renewal,” US Catholic, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Feb. 2019): 17-19.“The Limits of Exposing god: An Essay Review of Harvey Cox’s Market as God,” Syndicate Theology (June 2018). “The Contradiction of Hope in an Estranged World: David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism,” Syndicate Theology (April 6, 2015).


Brandy Daniels
PhD: Vanderbilt University, 2017; Theological Studies (certificate in Gender & Women's Studies, minor in Ethics and Society

Position(s): 
Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Portland 2025-present (Co-Director of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 2022-present; Assistant Professor 2020-2025).
Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences Engagements Curriculum, University of Virginia, 2018-2020.
Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion and Its Publics, University of Virginia, 2017-2018.

SCE Participation: 
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, editorial board, 2022-2025.
LGBTQI+ Working Group, co-founder and co-chair, 2022-present.
Nominating Committee, 2022.
Women’s Caucus, co-chair, 2020-2023.
LGBTQ & Queer Studies Interest Group, co-chair, 2019-2021.
Respondent, “LGBTQ+ Accompaniment on College Campuses: Moving through Shame.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (Chicago, IL), January 2025.
Panelist, “Dangerous Re-membering: Queer Pasts and Queer Presence in Political Times,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (Chicago, IL), January 2024.
Invited Scholar, “What do I wish I knew as a graduate student?” Society of Christian Ethics Student Caucus Dinner (Chicago, IL), January 2024.
“Is There No Gomorrah? Christian Ethics, Identity, and the Turn to Ecclesial Practices: Where's the Difference?" Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 39, no. 2 (2019): 287-302. (Presented at SCE 2019)
(Co-)Convener, LGBTQI+ Working & Interest Group panels, 2019-2025; Women’s Caucus panels, 2020-2023.

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Select guild and editorial administrative experience & service: Co-chair, Queer Studies in Religion AAR Program Unit, 2020-2025 (steering committee, 2013-2019); Executive committee, Political Theology Network, 2020-2024 (conference committee chair 2021-2022); editorial board, Lexington Press Queer & Trans Approaches to Religion & Theology series, 2023-present; Theology & Sexuality book review editor, 2019-2023. 
Select University of Portland administrative experience & service: Faculty supervisor, Collaborative Humanities Lab Investigating Research & Power (CHIRP Lab), 2022-present; confidential advocate, Title IX & Interpersonal Violence Prevention, 2025-present; Academic Senate, 2025-2027; DEIJ committee, 2023-present; Gender Inclusive Housing working group, 2023-2025; Honors program mentor, 2021-present.

Select Publications:
Editor, Religious Ethics and Constructivism: A Metaethical Inquiry (Routledge, 2018); Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality (Routledge, 2014); Ethical Theory and Responsibility Ethics (Peter Lang, 2011); Co-editor, Doing Justice to Mercy: Interdisciplinary Essays on Law, Religion, and Criminal Justice (University of Virginia Press, 2007); Co-editor, Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics (Fortress Press, 2006)

Other: Guild membership in American Academy of Religion, Political Theology Network, Association of Disciples for Theological Discussion, Fellowship of Protestant Ethics (emeritus), and National Women’s Studies Association. Ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). 


Scott Paeth
PhD: Princeton Theological Seminary, 2004, Theology and Ethics

Position(s):
Professor Religious Studies, DePaul University, 2017-Present
Senior Fellow, Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Chicago, 2022-2023
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University, 2010-2017
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University, 2004-2010
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology, Quincy University, 2003-2004

SCE Participation:
Co-Editor, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2017-2022.
Board, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2012-2015.
“Games and Simulations in the Ethics Classroom,” Society of Christian Ethics Pedagogy Interest Group, 2019.
“Eight Is Enough: Ethical Implications of the California Octuplets Case” at the Society of Christian Ethics, San Jose, CA, 2010.
“Dirty Hands Revisited: Morality, Torture, and Abu Ghraib” in The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 28.1 (2008), pp. 163-181.
“Dirty Hands Revisited: Morality, Torture and Abu Ghraib” at the Society of Christian Ethics, Dallas, TX, 2007.
“You Make All Things New!: Jonathan Edwards and a Christian Environmental Ethic” at the Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Breakfast with an Author (1 time)
JSCE Referee (4 times)
Chair/Convener (3 times)

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Chair, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, 2023-Present
Pastor, Edgebrook Community Church, 2021-Present, Presbyterian Church, USA 
General Assembly Committee on Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, 2023-Present
Midwest Regional American Academy of Religion, 2006-2016 (President, 2012-2014

Select Publications: 
Christianity and Identity: Public Theology, Authoritarianism, and Democracy (Faith and Public Reason, vol. 1). Cascade Books, 2026.
“Theology of Culture as Public Theology: Paul Tillich and the Social Ethics of Religious Experience” in The Political Theology of Paul Tillich, Rachel Baard, ed. Lexington, 2024.
“Globalization, Global Ethics, and the Common Good” in Multi-Religious Perspectives on a ‘Global Ethic’: In Search of a Common Morality, William Schweiker and Myriam Renaud, eds. Routledge, 2020.
“Public Theology and Economic Prosperity: The Contribution of Nimi Wariboko” in The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko: Social Ethics, Economy and Religion. Toyin Falola, ed. Carolina Academic Press, 2020.
“Reinhold Niebuhr: Faith in and Beyond History,” in Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition, Kevin Carnahan and David True, eds. Routledge, 2020.
“Christian Faith in a Secular Age,” New Theology Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (March 2017): 19-31, 2017.
“Who's Public? Which Theology?” International Journal of Public Theology. 10.4 (2016): 461-485, 2016.
“Feeling, Thinking, Doing: Ethics and Religious Self-Consciousness in Kant and Schleiermacher,” Philosophy and Theology. 28.2 (2016): 311-329, 2016.
The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2013.
The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2012.

Other: 2024 Inaugural Max L. Stackhouse Lecture in Public Theology, DePauw University2018-2022
American Academy of Religion Research Grants Jury.2020
Fulbright Specialist Grant, “Ethics, Metaethics, and Moral Skepticism,” Jilin University, Changchun, China.2010. Louis J. and Frances S. Nelson Ethics Lecture. Chicago Theological Seminary.2009-2012
International Journal of Public Theology. Book Reviews Editor.2009Brandeis University Schusterman Fellowship in Israel Studies.


Elise P. Edwards
PhD: Claremont Graduate University

Position(s): 
Associate Professor, Baylor University, August 2025-present 
Assistant Professor, Baylor University, August 2019-July 2025 
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Baylor University, August 2013-July 2019 

SCE Participation:
JSCE Search Committee (current) 
Active participant in African/African-American Working Group (2009-present) 
Active participant in Women's Caucus (2014-present) 
Co-chair of Junior Faculty Caucus (2014-2016) 
Presentations: Solo papers (3 times); Panels (4 times) 
Publications in JSCE (2020, 2015) 
Breakfast/Conversation with the Author (2025) 
Referee for the JSCE (6 times) 
Convener/Session Chair (2 times) 
Full member since 2014, Student member from 2010-2014 

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
Director of Baylor Initiative in Christianity and the Arts; American Academy of Religion Leadership: At-Large Director (2025)
Religion and Cities Program Unit Chair (2015-2021)
SW Region Conference Program Committee (2019-2024)
Nonprofit Board Membership: Partners for Sacred Places (2024-present)
Creative Waco (2016-2025)
Baylor University Faculty Senate (2014-2017)
Promoted DEIB through Baylor University Faculty of Color Alliance and Black Faculty/ Staff Association

Select Publications:
Architecture, Theology, and Ethics: Making Architectural Design More Just, Lexington Books, 2024 
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities. Routledge, 2020 (Co-editor and contributor) 
"Creation for a Just World: Racism in Architecture and Public Space" in The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, Routledge, 2022. 
“Feminism and Christianity” in The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 
“A Womanist Consideration of Architecture and the Common Good,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40, no. 2, 2020 
“'Let’s Imagine Something Different': Spiritual Principles in Contemporary African American Justice Movements and Their Implications for the Built Environment.” Religions 8, no. 12 , 2017 
When the Law Does Not Secure Justice or Peace: Requiem as Aesthetic Response,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 35, no. 2 , 2015 

Other:
Member of Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF)
Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI)
Fellowship for Protestant Ethics (FPE)


Kathryn (Kate) Ott
PhD: Union Theological Seminary, NYC

Position(s):
Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2022-current 
Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Drew University Theological School, 2021-2022 
Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Drew University Theological School, 2017-2021 
Assistant Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Drew University Theological School, 2011-2017 
Deputy Director, Religious Institute, 2008-2011 

SCE Participation:
Participant in Women’s Caucus and interest groups on Technological Ethics, Ethics and Sexualities, and Pedagogies 
Co-Convener, Women’s Caucus (2012-2015) 
Convener, Ethics of Sexualities Interest Group (2010-2013); led the (re)formation of interest group to be Ethics and Sexualities and the formation of LGBT and Queer Studies in Ethics 
Student Member (2003-2006), 2004 and 2005 Board Representative for Student Caucus 
Working group member for drafting of Enabling a Family-Friendly Institution: Creative Practices and Balancing Scholarship with Family Care: A Guide Commissioned by the Women’s Caucus of the Society of Christian Ethics 
Publications: “The Parables Ethic: Practicing Just Futures with Young People,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Fall 2025. 
Presentations: I have presented four solo papers at SCE in 2006 (dissertation research), 2011 (paper published in JFSR), 2016 (paper published in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies), and 2015 (paper published with JSCE). 
I co-presented in 2016 for the SCE Women's Caucus: Understanding the History, Envisioning the Future, Panelist with: Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, Fordham University and Carol Robb, San Francisco Theological Seminary / Graduate Theological Union. Moderated by Julie Hanlon Rubio, St. Louis University Society of Christian Ethics, Toronto, Canada and in January 2021 on “Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education” Sexuality and Pedagogy Interest group. 

Administrative Experience or Other Professional or Civic Service:
I have served in various capacities for Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. for over 20 years, most recently I completed my service as the co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2017-2025). I have served as a Board member for Catholics for Choice, on the Center for American Progress's Women’s Health Leadership Network, and the Religion Council for the Human Rights Campaign.

Select Publications:
Sex, Tech, and Faith: Christian Ethics for a Digital Age, Eerdmans Publishing (2022). 
Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education, co-editors Kate Ott and Darryl Stephens, Routledge (2020). 
Christian Ethics for a Digital Society, Rowman & Littlefield (2019). 
Sex + Faith: Talking to Your Child from Birth to Adolescence, Westminster John Knox Press (2013). 
“The Parables Ethic: Practicing Just Futures with Young People,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Fall 2025. 
“ReVisioning Sexuality: Relational Joy and Embodied Flourishing,” Journal of Youth and Theology. Ott, K., & Carter, L. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-0200100 
“Purifying Dirty Computers: Cyborgs, Sex, Christ, and Otherness.” Cursor_ Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologie, 2021. https://cursor.pubpub.org/pub/ott-purifying-dirty-computers. 
“Taking Children’s Moral Lives Seriously: Creativity as Ethical Response Offline and Online” Religions 10 (9), 525, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/9/525 
“Social Media and Feminist Values: Aligned or Maligned?” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Volume 39, Number 1, (2018). 
“Children as An/other Subject: Redefining Moral Agency in a Postcolonial Context” in Journal of Childhood and Religion Volume 5, Issue 2 (May 2014). 

Other:
Much of my scholarship reaches a public audience from writing for magazines like Sojourners, US Catholic and Presbyterian Outlook to faith-based curriculum for TheThoughtfulChristian and Yale Youth Ministry Institute, not to mention regular, annual North American speaking engagements and trainings for churches. I have received and managed numerous grants from foundations such as AAAS-Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion, Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities Program, Carter Center for Human Rights, Wabash Center for Teaching Theology and Religion Grant, Ford Foundation, and others. I have been an active member of the American Academy of Religion since 2001, serving on various units and committees. I am also a board member for the Global Network for Digital Theology and Theologies of the Digital.

Two-Year Candidates for Board of Directors: Student Members

Sarah Neff
PhD: Duke University, 2027, Christian Theology and Ethics

Position(s): Doctoral Student, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, anticipated graduation Spring 2027

SCE Participation:
Future Scholars Panel 2026

Select Publications:
Book Review: "AFTER METHOD: QUEER GRACE, CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THEOLOGY. By Hanna Reichel", Religious Studies Review, 2024

Other Affiliations: Facing the Anthropocene Graduate Research Grant, 2022


Noah Karger
PhD: University of Notre Dame, 2029, virtue ethics, technology ethics, mystical theology

Position(s): PhD Student, University of Notre Dame, 2023-present

SCE Participation:
2024, attended; 2025, presenter on the doctoral student panel 

Select Publications:(accepted with revisions) "Synaxis as the Link to Love Beyond: The Meeting of Ecstasies in Dionysius the Areopagite," International Journal of Systematic Theology. 
(forthcoming) "Developing Aquinas's Ecclesial Pedagogy: How the Simple Respond to Heresy and Teach the Faith by Example," Nova et Vetera. 
"The Mystical and Moral in Gregory of Nyssa: Recovering a Critical Link," Medieval Mystical Theology, 33:1 (April), pp. 1-14. 
"Moral Exemplarism in the Key of Christ," Journal of Moral Theology, 13:1 (January), pp. 102-129. 

Other: Fellowships 2025-2026, Gabriel Fellow, Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame ($38,000) 2024-2026, Graduate Fellow, Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab ($20,000) Awards2025, The SST/IJST Colin Gunton and John Webster Memorial Essay Prize2024 Emerging Scholar Award, Religion in Society Research Network 2023 Social Ethics Award, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary