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The Spring issue of Insights honors and features Professor David Johnson who retired at the end of 2021.
Education Beyond the Walls at Austin Seminary (EBW) has created Houses of Hope to foster engagement with and among small-town and rural congregations in Texas and Oklahoma.
The Austin Seminary Board of Trustees has called Dr. Ángel J. Gallardo to be Assistant Professor of Church History, effective July 1, 2022.
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary has received a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to further the work of The 787 Collective. These funds will sustain the work of the Collective for an additional five years, undergirding its mission to resource and support congregations seeking to engage young adults through creative ventures that deepen love for God, others, and self.
The Winter 2022 issue of Windows signifies some of the ways Austin Seminary fosters the notion of practicing theology in public.
On November 2, 2021, The Board of Trustees of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary extended the call to The Reverend Dr. Margaret Aymer, The First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport, D. Thomason Professor of New Testament Studies, to become the institution’s ninth academic dean in its 119-year history.
President Theodore J. Wardlaw, the ninth president of Austin Seminary, has announced plans to retire in 2022. He plans to stay in office until his successor is named, possibly by June 30 but no later than the end of the 2022 calendar year.
New Testament Professor Bridgett Green reflects on language choices in our faith talk.
Featured Faculty
What have you learned about yourself as a teacher during the Covid-19 crisis? In helping prepare online worship, I’ve learned some things about technology and how difficult it can be, at times, for an online meeting platform to be expressive and poetic; but I’ve also learned fresh things about paying attention to a given medium and allowing it to reveal what it’s capable of.
Words to live by? Everywhere a metaphor.
Favorite biblical text? Genesis 12. Blessed to be a blessing (my shorthand for the story.)
What do you like about teaching at Austin Seminary? Everything!
Why did you choose your field? The Hebrew Bible has to best stories! And I had lots of questions about them when I encountered them at church. But as happens so often, my questions were not taken very seriously or were deemed annoying and it was only when I started taking academic classes on the Bible as an undergrad, that my questions were finally addressed. And that's, in part, why I became a Biblicist!
What have you learned about yourself as a teacher during Covid-19? That my assumption that technology is evil is not wholly correct, and that, at times, it can be used for good. And that I can indeed teach online, and even enjoy it! Amazing!