Program Committee

The Program Committee shall have authority to determine the content of the program of the SCE Annual Meeting, with the exception of the SCE plenary speakers and conference theme, which shall be chosen by the President.  The Program Committee shall be chaired by the President and shall include the Presidential Cabinet (ex officio with voice and with vote) and one member (not necessarily a member of the Board) appointed by the president for that year only. The Program Committee shall also include the Editor or co-editors (ex officio with voice and with vote) and at least three additional members appointed by the President from the elected members of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors or, with the approval of the Board of Directors, the Program Committee itself, shall have the authority to include more participants in the selection process, provided that (1) the additional members be restricted to preliminary electronic voting only, (2) the additional members and the terms of their appointment shall be communicated to the membership as a whole, and (3) no less than 60 percent of the votes deciding the content of the program shall be cast by representatives elected directly by the membership as a whole.  Weighted voting may be used.

The Program Committee selects proposals and designs the program for the Annual Meeting, largely through a blind electronic ballot carried out before the Committee actually gathers in March or April. This selection process includes those serving on the Program Committee plus one vote from each of the Working Groups, the Women's Caucus, and the Students' Caucus.

2026-2027

President Diana Fritz Cates University of Iowa Professor of Ethics	Past President Rebecca Todd Peters Elon University  Professor of Religious Studies	President-Elect Gary Dorrien Union Theological Seminary & Columbia University Professor
Vice President Rubén Rosario Rodríguez Saint Louis University Clarence Louis and Helen Steber Professor of Theological Studies	Editor KC Choi Princeton Theological Seminary Professor	Editor MT Davila Merrimack College Professor
Janna Hunter-Bowman Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Christian Ethics Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Chair of Finance and Long Term Planning	Jennifer Leath Assistant Professor of Black Religions Queen's University Chair of Personnel Committee	James McCarty        Associate Professor of Moral Theology Boston College - School of Theology and Ministry Chair of Communications and Records Committee
Nina Adkins Virginia Commonwealth University CFCC	Brooklynn Reardon Duke University Student Caucus	Nicole Symmonds Columbia Theological Seminary Women's Caucus
LIsa Powell St. Ambrose University Disability Working Group	Gregory Lee Wheaton College Asian and Asian-American Working Group	Matthew Elia Saint Louis University  Assistant Professor Local Liaison
Marvin Wickware Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago African and African-American Working Group	Shatavia Wynn Rhodes College LGBTQI+ Working Group	Nicholas Hayes-Mota Santa Clara University Latino(a) Working Group
Lincoln Rice Ex Officio Pax Management Executive Director