Darwin and Faith
2009 National Summer Preachers
Rev. Dr. Wesley Wildman
Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Boston University School of Theology, Dr. Wildman is the Director for LiberalEvangelical.org, which aims to empower Christians who see themselves as moderates, and the Co-founder of the Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion, which conducts research into the biological and cultural functions of religion.
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Rev. Dr. Robert C. Neville
Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Theology at the Boston University School of Theology, Dr. Neville has served as Dean of School of Theology and of Marsh Chapel and as Executive Director of The Danielsen Institute. Before his appointment to the deanship at STH, Dean Neville was the Director of the Boston University Division of Religious and Theological Studies and chair of the Religion Department. An ordained elder in the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Neville has pastored in Missouri and NewYork.
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Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill
Bob Hill is the Dean of Boston University's Marsh Chapel as well as a professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. His perspective on pastoral theology focuses on the special needs of the church in Northeastern USA in the 21st Century. Dean Hill has been preaching since 1976. As an elder in the United Methodist Church he has had experience in seven local churches, five different annual conferences, annual conference board assignments, General and Jurisdictional Conference participation, General Board membership, various speaking engagements, and denominational leadership discussions.
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Rev. Dr. Dean Snyder
Dean became senior minister of the Foundry United Methodist Church in 2002. During 30 years of ordained ministry, Dean has been a local church pastor in Philadelphia, a campus minister, and college instructor. Before his appointment to Foundry, he served as director of communications for the Baltimore–Washington Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. His writings on theology, Biblical interpretation, and Christian mission have appeared in dozens of publications.
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Rev. Dr. Charles D. Yoost
Charles D. Yoost is the senior pastor at Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where he has served since 1998. A growing congregation with nearly 1,400 members, the church offers five Sunday services, and recently completed a $6.3 million addition. Worship services are broadcast weekly and are accessible on the Internet at www.wclv.com. Prior to serving as a District Superintendent in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, Yoost pastored churches in Youngstown and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
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Dr. Kirk Wegter-McNelly
Dr. Wegter-McNelly is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. His research and teaching interests focus on the promise and peril of reformulating Christian doctrine in light of constructive interplay with contemporary scientific ideas and perspectives. He is currently working on a theological assessment of physical relationality that engages recent scientific advances and philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
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Rev. Dr. Rodney Petersen
Rodney Petersen has been Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute since moving to the Boston area from Switzerland in 1990. In addition to this work with the BTI, he teaches in both the member schools and overseas in the areas of history and ethics, currently focusing on issues of religion and conflict. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., serving on several of their committees and served for seven years as the pastor of the Allston Congregational Church (U.C.C.).
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Br. Lawrence A. Whitney, LC+
The University Chaplain for Community Life, Br. Larry is the senior staff member responsible for the Ministry department at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Br. Larry is a professed member of the Lindisfarne Community, an ecumenical neomonastic religious order based in Ithaca, New York. He recently completed the Master of Divinity degree with a specialization in ecumenical systematic theology at the BU School of Theology, with a Certificate in International Mission and Ecumenism through the Boston Theological Institute (BTI), and is currently working toward a Master of Sacred theology in philosophical theology at STH.
