CURRICULUM VITAE

LACEYE C. WARNER

Office Address The Divinity School Home P.O. Box 74Duke University Abbott, TX 76621P.O. Box 90968Durham, NC 27708 Cell 919.382.0453

Office Telephone 919.660.3563 Office Fax 919.660.3474

Office Email lwarner@div.duke.edu

Denominational Affiliation United Methodist Church (life-long)Texas Annual Conference, Ordained Elder and Full Member

(2000-present)Education

2000 Ph.D. Trinity College, University of Bristol, EnglandDepartment of Church History“Methodist Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodist Deaconess Work

in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: A Paradigm for Evangelism”

Advisors: Ruth Gouldbourne and Richard Heitzenrater 1995 M.Div. The Divinity School

Duke University, Durham, NC1992 B.A. Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Professional Roles

2015-present Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies, The Divinity School, Duke University

2015-present Senior Strategist for United Methodist Collaborations, The Divinity School, Duke University

2012-2015 Executive Vice Dean2007-2012 Associate Dean for Academic Formation and Programs2006-2007 Associate Dean for Academic Formation2007-2015 Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist

Studies and the Royce and Jane Reynolds Teaching Fellow2001-2007 Assistant Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist

Studies and the Royce and Jane Reynolds Teaching FellowThe Divinity School, Duke University

1999-2001 E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of EvangelismGarrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

1999 Adjunct InstructorThe Divinity School, Duke University

1995-1996 Minister, Kingswood Circuit The Methodist Church in Great Britain

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Awards, Fellowships, Grants

2013 Assessment Mini-Grant, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Duke University2009-present Facilitator, Christians’ Callings in the World Grant Project, Lilly Foundation2008 Duke University Teamwork Award, SACS Reaccreditation Team2008 Faculty-In Residence of the Year Award, Duke University2006-2009 Facilitator, Lexington Seminar Grant, Lilly Foundation2006 Louisville Institute Summer Stipend Grant, Lilly Foundation2005-2007 Facilitator, Post-doctoral Fellows Program in Evangelism, Foundation for

Evangelism2002-2003 Association of Theological Schools Research Grant, Lilly Foundation1996-2000 John Wesley Fellowship, A Foundation for Theological Education

Advisory Boards

2011-present American Methodist Project Scholarly Advisory Board2003-present AFTE, John Wesley Fellowship2003-2008 Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Society Memberships

2000-present Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Secretary, Executive Committee (2001-2006)

2003-2006 Wesley Historical Society2000-2006 Ekklesia Project, Board Member (2002-2006)2000-2003 American Society of Church History1998-present American Academy of Religion1996-present AFTE, John Wesley Fellowship,

Scholarship Committee (2003-present)

Published Works

Books

1. The Method of Our Mission: United Methodist Polity and Organization (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2014)

2. Grace to Lead: Practicing Leadership in the Wesleyan Tradition, co-authored with Bishop Kenneth Carder (Nashville: UM GBHEM, 2010)

3. The Study of Evangelism, co-edited with Paul Chilcote (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008)

4. Saving Women: Retrieving Evangelistic Theology and Practice (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007)

*Rated an "Outstanding book" for 2008 by the University Press Books Committee

Chapters in Compiled Volumes and Collaborative Projects

5. “American Methodist Women: Roles and Contributions,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Methodism, ed. Jason E. Vickers (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 316-334.

6. “Scripture and Evangelism,” in Wesley, Wesleyan, and Reading Bible as Scripture, eds. Joel Green and David Watson (Baylor University Press, 2012), 263-275.

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7. Wesley Study Bible, co-editor of Wesleyan theological side-bars with Sarah Lancaster, eds. Joel Green and Wil Willimon (Abingdon Press, 2009)

8. “Saving Women: Re-visioning Contemporary Concepts of Evangelism,” Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit, ed. W. Stephen Gunter and Elaine Robinson, (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2005), 119-133

9. “Reconsidering Evangelism: Lessons from Black Liberation and Womanist Theologies,” in Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology, ed. Linda E. Thomas, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), 71-82

10. “Offer Them Christ: Characteristics of a Wesleyan Paradigm for Evangelism,” in The Wesleyan Tradition, ed. Paul Chilcote, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002), 163-174

Journal Articles

11. “Mega-Churches: A New Ecclesiology or An Ecclesial Evangelism?,” Review and Expositor (Winter 2010), 21-31

12. “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early Methodism for the Contemporary Church,” The Asbury Journal (Spring 2008), 115-138

13. “Rethinking Evangelism and the Old Testament: Jonah and the Imitation of God,” co-authored with Stephen B. Chapman, Journal of Theological Interpretation (Spring 2008), 43-69

14. “From Going to Gathering: Reflections on a Study of Ecclesial Evangelism,” Journal for the Academy of Evangelism in Theological Education, (October 2007), 49-61

15. “Situating the Word: The Significance of Christian Space for Evangelism,” Asbury Theological Journal (Spring 2007), 79-84

16. “Redemption and Race: The Evangelistic Ministry of Three Women in Southern Methodism,” Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall 2005), 7-29

17. “‘Toward the Light’: Methodist Episcopal Deaconess Work with Immigrant Populations, 1885-1910,” Methodist History (April 2005), 169-182

18. “Kingdom Witness and Helen Barrett Montgomery’s Biblical Theology,” Review and Expositor (Summer 2004), 451-471

19. “Saving Women: Re-visioning Contemporary Concepts of Evangelism,” Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education (October 2003), 16-31

20. “Towards a Wesleyan Evangelism,” Methodist History (July 2002), 230-24521. “Methodist Episcopal Deaconesses and the Social Gospel: Social Service with Evangelistic

Ministry,” Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education (October 2001), 36-49

22. “Wesley Deaconess-Evangelists: Exploring Remnants of Revivalism in late 19th Century British Methodism,” Methodist History (April 2000), 176-190

Other Academic Writings

23. “Sarah and Angelina Grimke,” Handbook of Women Interpreters of the Bible (Baker Academic, 2012)

24. “Evangelism,” Dictionary of Scriptural Ethics (Baker Academic, 2011)25. Cover foreword, With the Mind of God, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008)26. “Making Disciples Through the Means of Grace,” Quarterly Review (June 2003),

161-17227. “Ames, Jessie Daniel,” “Bennett, Belle Harris,” “Chappell, Winifred,” “Meyer, Lucy Rider,”

“Palmer, Phoebe,” “Shaw, Anna Howard,” “Swain, Clara,” “Thoburn, Isabella,” “Van Cott, Margaret Ann Newton,” “Willing, Jennie Fowler,” in The Westminster Dictionary of Women

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In American Religious History, ed. Susan H. Lindley, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), 5, 17, 38, 148, 166, 196, 216, 219, 226, 236.

Other Ecclesial Writings

28. “The Mission Behind Our Method,” Circuit Rider (November/December/January 2014-2015), 12-14.

29. Methodist Evangelism: Wesleyan Mission, editor, curriculum and video series, with project director Craig Hill (Wesley Ministry Network, 2011)

30. Foreword, Get Real: On Evangelism in the Late Modern World, by Fr. Edward Rommen (2011)31. Women Called to Ministry, Design Team and Contributor, Curriculum sponsored by the United

Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women (July 2007)32. “Opening Ourselves to Grace: Basic Christian Practices,” Contributor, Curriculum/DVD

produced by the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship (June 2006)33. “Loving God and Neighbor: Sustaining Ministry Vocation and Practices,” Sustaining Pastoral

Excellence Website, http://www.divinity.duke.edu/programs/spe/, (May 2006) 1065 words34. ”Willingness to Move?’: Methodism and Itineracy,” Circuit Rider (May/June 2005), 8-9.35. “Reclaiming Christian Practices of Traditioning: I Corinthians 15.1-11,” Sermon in The

Minister’s Manual 2004, ed. Carol Noren, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004), 38-4036. “Seeking Wholeness in Christian Community: James 5. 13-20,” Sermon in The Minister’s

Manual 2003, ed. Carol Noren, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 232-23337. “Shaping the Evangelistic Ministry of Laity,” Circuit Rider (December 2002), 24-538. Missional Evangelism, booklet co-authored with Inagrace Diettrich, (Ekklesia Project, November

2002), 20 pages39. “Ten Words as Guide for Living in Covenant: Exodus 20.1-4, 7-9, 12-20,” Sermon in The

Minister’s Manual 2002, ed. Carol Noren, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002), 229-23140. “Open Hearts,” Sermon Starter, Igniting Ministry website, Summer 200141. “Risking the Unimaginable,” Sermon in Ex Auditu (April 2000), 137-14242. “Urban Ministry for the 21st Century,” co-authored with Gaston Warner, in the North Georgia

Wesleyan Christian Advocate, April 21, 2000

Reviews

43. Riley B. Case, Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History in Quarterly Review (Spring 2005), 108-9

44. Ted Dorman, A Faith for All Seasons: Historic Christian Belief in Its Classical Expression in Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education (October 2002), 82-3

45. Barbara Brown Taylor, Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation in Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education (October 2002), 101-3

Work In Press

46. “Consecrating Methodist Deaconesses: Exploring Historical Roots,” in Office of Deaconess and Lay Missioner Study ed. Becky Louter (forthcoming May 2015) 4000 words

47. “Belle Harris Bennett’s Leadership in Woman’s Missionary Organizations in Southern Methodism: Redemption and Race,” United Methodist Women at 50, (forthcoming 2016) 6,000 words

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48. “Challenges and Opportunities for Institutions in the Wesleyan Tradition,” co-authored with L. Gregory Jones, in Leadership in the Wesleyan Way (forthcoming 2016) 4000 words

49. “Living Church: A Theological Practice of Evangelism” Witness, (forthcoming 2016) 6000 words

Work in Progress

50. Living Church: A Biblical and Theological Practice of Missional Evangelism, under contract with Baylor University Press, approximately 300 pages

51. “A Wesleyan Understanding of Evangelism,” in Letters to the Church: Dialogue Towards a United Methodism (Abingdon Press, forthcoming 2016) 4000 words

Presentations

Academic

July 20-30, 2015 Instructor, Reynolds Leadership Fellows Western North Carolina Annual Conference, UMC, Wesley Tour, United Kingdom

June 18, 2015 Plenary Speaker, “Living Church: A Theological Practice of Evangelism,” Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Wheaton College

April 18-26, 2015 Plenary Instructor, “Missio de Dios,” Course of Study for the Methodist Church in El Salvador

February 17, 2015 Instructor, “Reclaiming Evangelism,” with Aileen Van Ginkel, Webinar sponsored by the World Council of Churches, National Council of Churches and United Methodist General Board of Discipleship

July 2014 Instructor, Summer Course of Study, Duke Divinity School“Our Mission from God: Evangelism”

November 2013 Co-Instructor, Weekend Course of Study, Duke Divinity School“Our Mission from God: Evangelism”

October 24, 2013 Speaker, “Witnessing Church: Methodism and Mission,” Conversation with Bishop Hope Morgan Ward and Extended Cabinet, North Carolina Annual Conference

October 15, 2013 Speaker, “Living Church: Gospel Inspired Renewal,” Convocation and Pastors’ School, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC

October 7, 2013 Keynote, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early Methodism for the Contemporary Church,” Virginia Society for Wesleyan Studies, Richmond, VA

April 5, 2013 Presenter, “UM Polity,” Instructors’ Seminar, The UMC After Tampa: Where Do We Go From Here?, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

June 19, 2012 Keynote Panelist Moderator, "Implications of the Revised Degree Program Standards," ATS Chief Academic Officers' Society Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

February, 25, 2011 “Women, Witness, and Education in the Wesleyan/Methodist Tradition,” Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC

January 8, 2011 “Theological Education in the 21st Century,” panelist, John Wesley Fellows’ Christmas Conference, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

June 24, 2010 “Outcomes Assessment,” co-presented with John VerBerkmoes, ATS Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada

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March 10, 2010 “Witnessing Church: Evangelism in Ecclesial Communities,” Church World Service, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

March 2, 2010 Keynote, “Witnessing to Christ through Confessing Communities: Evangelism and the Other,” Hendrix College, Conway, AR

November 18, 2009 “Witnessing Communities,” Wallace Chappell Lecture, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH

July 28-29, 2009 Group Leader, Christians’ Callings in the World, Lilly Sponsored Grantees Gathering, Ventura, CA

March 21, 2009 “Managing from the Middle,” Workshop, Chief Academic Officers Gathering, Association of Theological Schools, San Antonio, TX

August 15, 2008            "Evangelism in Relation to UM History, Doctrine, and Polity," United Methodism at Forty Conference, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA

March 27, 2008 “From Going to Gathering: Reflections on a Study of Ecclesial Evangelism,”Progressive and Evangelical Event, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL

March 15, 2008 Panelist responding to Ken Collins, The Theology of John Wesley: Holy LoveAnd the Shape of Grace, Wesleyan Theological Society, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

March 15, 2008 Respondent, Practical Theology Session, Wesley Theological Society, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

August 12-21, 2007 “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early Methodism for the Contemporary Church” Twelfth Oxford Institute, Christ Church, Oxford, UK

June 23, 2007 “’First the Church and then the Methodists’: Charles Wesley and Evangelism” Charles Wesley at 300, Duke Divinity School

June 14-19, 2007 Group Leader, Lexington Seminar, Northeast Harbor, MEMarch 14, 2007 “Saving Women: A Constructive Evangelistic Theology,” Gladys Crane Lecture,

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, ILMarch 10, 2007 “’Toward the Light’: Lucy Rider Meyer and the Chicago Training School,” Women in

Methodist History Conference, Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, TNJanuary 18-20, 2007 “Saving Women: Retrieving Evangelistic Theology and Practice,” Louisville

Institute Grant Recipient’s Gathering, Louisville, KYJanuary 8-9, 2007 “From Going to Gathering: Reflections on a Study of Ecclesial Evangelism,”

Consultation on World Evangelism, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

November 18, 2006 “’Shew[ing] forth His Love without Partiality’: The Evangelistic Ministry of Dorothy Ripley (1767-1831),” Colloquium on Early Methodist Texts and Theologies, American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC

October 27, 2006 Respondent to Bryan Stone, Evangelism After Christendom, U.M. Professors of Evangelism Annual Gathering, Lake Junaluska, NC

September 29, 2006 “The Nature and Mission of the Church,” Probationers’ Seminar, Duke Divinity School

November 21, 2005 “A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the Transformative Impact of Sanctification Experience and Belief in the Conversion of Julia A. J. Foote, 19th c. Holiness Preacher,” with Professor Lallene Rector, Wesleyan Studies and Personality, Culture, and Religion Join Session, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA

October 8, 2005 “Situating the Word: An Evangelistic Theology of Space,” Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC

September 16, 2005 “The Nature and Mission of the Church,” Probationers’ Seminar, Duke

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Divinity SchoolAugust 8-15, 2005 “John Wesley and Early Methodism: People, Practices, and Possibilities,”

John Wesley College, Kilnerton, South AfricaJune 6-July 1, 2005 Participant, Summer Wesley Seminar, Duke Divinity School

“Evangelism and Leadership in John Wesley’s Theology and Practice”

October 20, 2004 “’Toward the Light’: Lucy Rider Meyer and the Chicago Training School,” Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL

October 8, 2004 “Saving Women: Teaching Women and Evangelism,” Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX

September 24, 2004 “The Nature and Mission of the Church,” Probationers’ Seminar, Duke Divinity School

July 19, 2004 Respondent to Jonathan Wilson, Ekklesia Project Annual Gathering, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

May 24-June 18, 2004 Participant, Summer Wesley Seminar, Duke Divinity School“Redemption and Race: The Evangelistic Ministry of Three Women in Southern Methodism”

December 13, 2003 “Plenary I: Fulfilling the Mission of JWF after 25 Years: Reflections of Some Senior Fellows,” Panelist, John Wesley Fellows’ Christmas Conference, A Foundation for Theological Education, The Woodlands, TX

November 22, 2003 “Saving Women: Evangelistic Ministry in Southern Methodism,” Wesleyan Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA

October 25, 2003 “Surviving Seminary as Assistant Professors,” Panelist, A Roundtable Seminar for Newly Appointed Faculty, Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, PA

September 26, 2003 “The Nature and Mission of the Church,” Probationers’ Seminar, Duke Divinity School

June 28, 2003 “Women in Early Methodism,” Moderator, Wesley at 300, Duke Divinity School

September 23, 2002 “Sources and Norms for Belief in the United Methodist Church,”Probationers’ Seminar, Duke Divinity School

August 16, 2002 “’Toward the Light’: Methodist Episcopal Deaconess Work 1885-1910,” Eleventh Oxford Institute, Christ Church, Oxford, UK

February 25-27, 2002 Respondent to Dr. Phil Meadows, John Wesley Theological Institute, Chicago, IL

January 6, 2001 “Methodist Episcopal Deaconesses and the Social Gospel: Social Service with Evangelistic Ministry,” Gender and the Social Gospel, American Society of Church History, Boston, MA

October 9, 2001 Respondent to Dr. Leonard Sweet, Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

November 18, 2000 “Methodist Episcopal Deaconess: A 19th Century Embodiment of Wesleyan Evangelistic Ministry,” Wesleyan Studies Group, American Academy of Religion, Nashville, TN

April 4, 2000 “An Evangelistic Model for Ministry Informed by Black Liberation Theology,” Black Theology and the Ministry for the New Millennium, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL

October 3, 1999 “Risking the Unimaginable,” Preacher, Symposium on Theological Interpretation of Scripture, North Park Theological

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Seminary, Chicago, ILDecember 12, 1998 “Respectable Revivalism: The Ministry of British Wesleyan

Methodist Deaconess-Evangelists,” John Wesley Fellows’ Christmas Conference, A Foundation for Theological Education, Duke Divinity School

Ecclesial

July 13, 2015 Speaker, “Resurrection,” Texas Youth Academy, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX

June 19, 2015 Preacher, “Prayers to God,” Local Pastors’ Licensing School, Texas Annual Conference, UMC

June 19, 2015 Instructor, “Evangelism,” Local Pastors’ Licensing School, Texas Annual Conference, UMC

May 11, 2015 Guest Speaker, “United Methodist Polity,” Local Pastors’ Licensing School, Western North Carolina Conference, UMC

May 27, 2014 Speaker, Youth Workers’ Gathering, Texas Annual Conference UMCSeptember 16, 2013 Speaker, “Saving Women,” United Methodist Women, New Creation UMC,

Durham, NCSeptember 16, 2013 Speaker, “Saving Women,” Adult Forum, Duke University Chapel, NCJuly 7 and 14, 2013 Preacher and Speaker, Millbrook Baptist Church, Raleigh, NCJuly 1, 2013 Speaker, “Wesleyan Roots,” Texas Youth Academy,

Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX June 17, 2013 Preacher and Plenary, Duke Youth Academy, Duke Divinity School, Durham,

NCJune 16, 2013 Speaker, “Saving Women,” New Creation UMC, Durham, NCMay 28, 2013 Panelist, Reporting on Theological Education, Texas Annual Conference,

Houston, TXMarch 28, 2013 Peter Gomes Distinguished Preacher, Maundy Thursday, Duke University

Chapel, NCMarch 10, 2013 Preacher, “A New Commandment?” Duke’s Chapel UMC, Durham, NCMarch 3, 2013 Preacher, “A New Commandment?” Village Chapel of Bald Head Island, NCOctober 17, 2012 Keynote, “Saving Women: Retrieving Christian Leadership for the 21st

Century,” Annual Prayer Breakfast, Durham Women’s Club, Durham, NC

October 15-16, 2012 Workshop Co-leader with Bishop Ken Carder, “Grace to Lead,” Convocation and Pastor’s School, Duke Divinity School

June 17, 2012 Preacher, "Seriously Confessing," Duke Youth Academy, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

July 5, 2012 Speaker, "Living in God's Reign," Texas Youth Academy, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX

January 10-12, 2012 Keynote and Preacher, “Vocation,” Perkins School of Youth Ministry, First UMC Richardson, TX

December 11, 2011 Preacher, “Advent Jubilee,” Village Chapel of Bald Head Island, NCMay 29, 2011 Co-Presenter with Dr. Willie Jennings, “The Beloved Community: Biblical

and Theological Roots,” St. Luke’s UMC, Gethsemane Campus, Houston, TX

March 23-25, 2011 Participant, “UM Global Theological Education Summit,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA

February 15-16, 2011 Keynote, “Sustaining Ministry through Nurturing Vocation,” UM District Event, Lake Louise, MI

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September 26, 2010 Preacher and Presenter, “Wesleyan Evangelism,” First United Methodist Church, Salisbury, NC

July 14, 2010 Plenary, “Heeding the Spirit’s Call: Methodism,” Texas Annual Conference Youth Academy, Southwestern College, Georgetown, TX

June 28, 2010 Instructor, “Resurrecting the Word: Practicing Evangelism,” Adult Vacation Bible School, Asbury UMC, Durham, NC

April 29, 2010 Panelist and Presenter, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Retrieving Wesleyan Evangelism,” Foundation for Evangelism Board Meeting, Dayton, OH

March 1, 2010 Preacher, “Confession from God’s Perspective,” Hendrix College Chapel, Conway, AR

February 23, 2010 “Leading from the Second Chair,” Executive Pastors’ Gathering, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC

January 3, 2010 Preacher, “When the Savior Comes,” Asbury Temple UMC, Durham, NCOctober 12, 2009 Plenary Instructor, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness,” Clergy Excellence

School, Kentucky Annual Conference, UMC, Louisville, KYSeptember 2009 Instructor, Weekend Course of Study, Duke Divinity School

“Our Mission from God: Evangelism”July 30, 2009 Keynote, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness,” Congregational School of Mission,

UMGBOD, Evanston, ILAugust 11, 2009 Preacher, “Discipling,” Asbury United Methodist Church, Birmingham, ALApril 28, 2009 Keynote, “Saving Women: Evangelistic Leadership for the 21st Century,”

Lead Women Pastors’ Project Banquet, GBHEM, West Palm Beach, FL

April 15, 2009 Keynote, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness,” Wesley Wednesdays, Trinity UMC, Spartanburg, SC

March 13-15, 2009 Keynote, “Grace to Lead: Vocation and Ministry for the 21st Century,” Discerners’ Academy, Louisiana Annual Conference

December 28, 2008 Preacher, “When the Savior Comes,” Village of Bald Head Island Chapel, NCNovember 23, 2008 Consecration Sunday Preacher, “Practices of the Humble,” First United

Methodist Church, Port Neches, TXNovember 16, 2008 Keynote, “Watch Over One Another in Love,” Asbury Temple UMC,

Durham, NCOctober 13-14, 2008 Workshop Co-leader with Bishop Ken Carder, “Grace to Lead,” Convocation

and Pastor’s School, Duke Divinity SchoolOctober 17-19, 2008 Keynote, “Resurrecting the Word: Reclaiming a Lived Language of

Evangelism,” First UMC, Pensacola, FLSeptember 24, 2008 Keynote, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early

Methodism for the Contemporary Church,” NJ Annual Conference District Days

September 24, 2008 Keynote, “Resurrecting the Word: Reclaiming a Lived Language of Evangelism,” NJ Annual Conference District Days

September 14, 2008 Preacher, Ordination Service for Mary Ellison Baars, First Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, FL

July 16-17, 2008 Panelist, “The Wesleyan Way,” Southeast Jurisdictional Conference, Lake Junaluska, NC

June 10, 2008 Keynote, “Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early Methodism for the Contemporary Church,” Duke Divinity School Dinner, Holston Annual Conference, Lake Junaluska, NC

June 3, 2008 Keynote, “Saving Women: Empowering Women for Ministry,” COSROW Breakfast, Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference, Montgomery, AL

June 2-4, 2008 “Biblical and Wesleyan Foundations for Evangelism,” Bible Study Leader, Alabama-

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West Florida Annual Conference, Montgomery, ALFebruary 10, 2008 Preacher, “Confessing Our Sin,” The Village Chapel, Bald Head Island, NCFebruary 3, 2008 Preacher, “A New Commandment?” Moody Memorial UMC, Galveston, TXAugust 30, 2007 Preacher, “A New Commandment?” Goodson, Chapel, Duke Divinity School July 1, 2007 Preacher, St. Andrew United Methodist Church, Raleigh, NCJune 24, 2007 Preacher, “Who do we show Jesus to be?” Charles Wesley at 300, Duke

University ChapelJune 16, 2007 Preacher, Lexington Seminar, Northeast Harbor, MEFebruary 11, 2007 Speaker, “Resurrecting the Word,” Semester at Centenary, Centenary United

Methodist Church, Winston Salem, NCNovember 12, 2006 Celebrant, United Methodist Women’s Day, Asbury Temple UMC, Durham, NCOctober 24-25, 2006 Keynote Speaker, “Resurrecting the Word,” Bishop’s Convocation on

Evangelism, North Indiana Annual ConferenceOctober 2, 2006 Panelist, North Carolina and Western North Carolina Boards of Ordained

Ministry: A Day of Dialogue, Duke Divinity SchoolAugust 31, 2006 Preacher, “Traditioning,” Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity SchoolJune 1-2, 2006 Speaker, “Calling and Gifts: Women and Ordination in Methodism,” North

Alabama Annual Conference UMCApril 5, 2006 Speaker, “Resurrecting the Word,” Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry,

University of GeorgiaJanuary 2006 Instructor, “Our Mission from God: Evangelism,” Weekend Course of Study,

Duke Divinity SchoolJanuary 4-5, 2006 Workshop Leader, “Saving Women: Reclaiming the Narratives and Practices

of Evangelistic Women,” The Congress on Evangelism, Nashville, TNDecember 11, 2005 Co-presenter with Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones, “Art as Evangelism,” John

Wesley Fellows’ Christmas Conference, A Foundation for Theological Education, Duke Divinity School

December 7, 2005 Keynote Speaker, “Renewing the Wesleyan Witness on Campus,” Summit on United Methodist Campus Ministry, Duke Divinity School

November 14-16, 2005 Speaker, “The Presence of God in Sustaining Practices,” Sustaining PastoralExcellence Foundational Seminar, Jackson, MS

November 4-6, 2005 Leader, Discover God’s Call Youth Retreat, Fayetteville, NCNovember 2, 2005 Speaker, “Resurrecting the Word: Reclaiming a Lived Language of

Evangelism,” Council of Bishops, UMC, Lake JunaluskaAugust 11, 2005 Preacher, “Wesleyan Women of Extraordinary Faith: Mary Bosanquet

Fletcher,” National Women’s Day, John Wesley College Chapel, Pretoria, South Africa

June 2-3, 2005 Speaker, “Towards a Wesleyan Evangelism,” Kansas East Annual Conference, UMC

May 29, 2005 Preacher, “Intentional Loving Practices,” First United Methodist Church, Brazoria, TX

May 13-15, 2005 Speaker, “A Wesleyan Evangelism,” Adult Education Retreat, Hyde Park UMC, Tampa, FL

April 23, 2005 Instructor, “Towards a Wesleyan Discipleship,” Laity Weekend, Duke Divinity School

February 10, 2005 Preacher, “An Augustinian Reading of Psalm 51,” York Chapel, Duke Divinity School

February 6 & 13, 2005 Instructor, “Biblical Commissions,” Adult Forum, Duke University ChapelFebruary 4, 2005 Speaker, “Herstory: Women in the Wesleyan Traditions,” West Market Street

UMC, Greensboro, NCJanuary 2005 Instructor, “The Wesleyan Movement,” Weekend Course of Study, Duke

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Divinity SchoolNovember 21, 2004 Speaker, “Characteristics of a Wesleyan Evangelism,” First United Methodist

Church, Seguin, TXOctober 17 & 24, 2004 Instructor, “Faith into Action,” Christ Episcopal Church, Raleigh, NCJuly 2004 Instructor, “Our Mission From God: Evangelism,” Summer Course of Study,

Duke Divinity SchoolJune 2-4, 2004 Speaker, “Living the Jesus Story,” Mississippi Annual Conference, UMCMay 9 & 16, 2004 Instructor, “Gospel Commissions as Paradigms for Discipleship,” Calvary

UMC, Durham, NCApril 21, 2004 Lecturer, “Towards a Wesleyan Discipleship,” Davidson UMC, Davidson, NCApril 15, 2004 Keynote Speaker, “Women Leaders in Methodism,” Professional Association

of United Methodist Church Secretaries’ Annual Meeting,Greensboro, NC

March 26-28, 2004 Keynote Speaker, “Towards a Wesleyan Evangelism,” Continuing Education Event, Greensboro and Statesville Districts, UMC

March 22-23, 2004 Keynote Speaker, “Towards a Wesleyan Evangelism,” Faith Alive Lectures, First UMC, Sulphur Springs, TX

March 1, 2004 Consultant, Urban Ministry Task Force Retreat, Mississippi Annual Conference, UMC

February 29, 2004 Preacher, Court Street UMC, Hattiesburg, MSFebruary 15-16, 2004 Lecturer, “Towards a Wesleyan Evangelism,” Newnham Lectures, First UMC,

Longview, TXJanuary 8, 2004 Celebrant, York Chapel, Duke Divinity SchoolJanuary 4, 2004 Preacher, “When the Savior Comes,” Duke University ChapelNovember 30, 2003 Preacher, “Cultivating Loving Obedience,” The Woodlands UMC, The

Woodlands, TXNovember 15, 2003 Instructor, “Saving Women,” Laity Weekend, Duke Divinity SchoolNovember 8, 2003 Keynote Speaker, Bishop’s Convocation on Evangelism

South Indiana Annual Conference, Southeastern Districts, UMCSeptember 2003 Instructor, “Christian Discipleship,” Epworth UMC, Durham, NCSeptember 2003 Instructor, “Our Mission from God: Evangelism,” Weekend Course of Study,

Duke Divinity SchoolJuly 20, 2003 Instructor, “What United Methodists Believe,” Mt. Sylvan UMC, Durham, NCMay 27-29, 2003 Speaker, “John Wesley’s Life and Ministry,” Texas Annual Conference, UMCMay 18, 2003 Preacher, “Cultivating Loving Obedience,” Duke University ChapelMay 17, 2003 Keynote Speaker, Bishop’s Convocation on Evangelism

South Indiana Annual Conference, Eastern Districts, UMCMay 3, 2003 Keynote Speaker, “The Gospel Commissions,” Gordon Street Christian

Church, Kinston, NCMarch 23, 2003 Speaker, “Women and Missions,” University Presbyterian Church, Chapel

Hill, NCMarch 2003 Instructor, “Our Mission from God: Evangelism,” Weekend Course of Study,

Duke Divinity SchoolNovember 23, 2002 Keynote Speaker, Bishop’s Convocation on Evangelism

South Indiana Annual Conference, Southern Districts, UMCNovember 22, 2002 Speaker, “Women as Evangelists,” Continuing Education Event,

South Indiana Annual Conference, UMCNovember 2, 2003 Instructor, “The Great Commissions,” Laity Weekend, Duke Divinity SchoolNovember 2002 Instructor, “Covenant Discipleship—Reframing Evangelism,” Christ

Episcopal Church, Raleigh, NCSeptember 21, 2002 Keynote Speaker, Bishop’s Convocation on Evangelism

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South Indiana Annual Conference, Western Districts, UMCJuly 2002 Instructor, “Evangelism,” Summer Session, Garrett-Evangelical Theological

SeminaryJune 5, 2002 Keynote Speaker, “Loving Kindness as a Means of Grace,” Spiritual

Formation Day Apart, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, UMC

January 23-25, 2002 Keynote Speaker, “The Great Commission: Jesus’ Call to All Disciples,” Continuing Education Event, Durham and Elizabeth City Districts, UMC

January 5, 2002 Instructor, “Mission in Church Tradition,” Continuing Education Event, Winston-Salem District, UMC

September 5, 2001 Preacher, York Chapel, Duke Divinity SchoolApril 22, 2001 Preacher, First United Methodist Church, Chicago, ILMarch 2001 Instructor, Lay Speakers’ Academy, Northwestern District

Northern Illinois Annual Conference, UMCFebruary 2001 Instructor, “Reframing Evangelism,” First United Methodist Church, Chicago,

ILFebruary 21, 2001 Keynote Speaker, Foundation for Evangelism, Melbourne District, UMCNovember 10-12, 2000 Workshop Leader, Exploration 2000, Dallas, TX, UMCJune 2000 Instructor, Faith Passage, Lilly funded Pan-Methodist Youth Ministry

Initiative, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, ILMarch 2000 Instructor, Lay Speakers’ Academy, Northwestern District

Northern Illinois Annual Conference, UMC

Teaching Areas Missional Church and EvangelismUnited Methodist History, Doctrine, PolityWomen in Christian Tradition and MinistryChristian Leadership

Service

Ecclesial

2015-2019 Delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conferences, Texas Annual Conference, UMC

2012-present University Senate, United Methodist Church2008-present UM Council of Bishops Ministry Study Commission2008-present Board of Ordained Ministry, Texas Annual Conference, UMC2012-present Board of Ordained Ministry, Joint Committee on Medical Leave, Texas

Annual Conference, UMC2008-2012 UM Council of Bishops Task Force for Theological Education and Leadership

Formation2005-2009 Lay Leadership Committee, Asbury Temple UMC, Durham, NC2004-2009 Visioning Committee, Foundation for Evangelism, UMC2004-2007 Facilitator, United Methodist Professors of Evangelism2004 Chair, Adult Education Committee, Duke University ChapelRegular Committee Appointments, Duke Divinity School

2006-2015 Committee on Faculty2006-2015 Executive Committee2006-2012 Th.D. Oversight Committee

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2007-2008 Director, Doctor of Theology Program2006-2012 Tuition Review Committee2006-2012 Field Education Committee2004-2012 Academic Policies Committee, Chair (2006-present) 2001-2012 Curriculum Committee (with the exception of 2003-2005)2002-2005 Course of Study Committee, Chair (2003-2005)2001-2004 Women’s Center, Faculty Sponsor2001-2006 Harassment Prevention Advisor

Task Forces and Occasional Committees, Duke Divinity School

Jan 2013-July 2014 Director, ATS Self Study Process2010 Task Force on Student Life Staffing, Chair2009-2010 Task Force for Degree Programs, Curriculum, and Faculty Development,

Chair2006-20008 Task Force to Revise By-laws for Regular Rank Non-Tenure Track Faculty2004-2006 Selection Committee, Student International Travel Fellowship 2005-2007 Post-doc Fellowship Program in Evangelism, Facilitator2005-2006 Race and Pedagogy Seminar, facilitated by Mary McClintock Fulkerson2003-2005 ATS Self Study Committee, Student Services Area

Search Committees, Duke Divinity School

2010-2011 WorshipFall 2010 Director Youth Ministry Initiatives, Chair2009-2010 Faculty Director for New Degree Initiatives2008-2009 Director of Admissions, ChairSpring 2008 Director of Student Life, ChairSpring 2008 Director and Asst. Director of Field Education, Chair2007-2008 Homiletics2006-2007 SpiritualitySpring 2006 Practical Theology2004-2005 Director of AdmissionsFall 2004 Director of Field Education2002-2003 Practical Theology2001-2002 Chaplain

Duke University

2013 Vice Provost’s Duke STEAM Advisory Board2010-2014 Provost’s Master of Arts Council2009-2014 Vice Provost’s Liaisons Group on Assessment 2011 Vice Provosts’ Working Group on Interdisciplinary Barriers2006-2009 Compliance Certification and Assessment Committees, University SACS Re-

Accreditation

Association of Theological Schools

June 2010 ATS Biennial Meeting, Reference and Council Committee2008-2012 ATS Steering Committee to Revise Standards

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Committee Assignments (2000-2001), Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

2000-2001 Search Committee, President (elected)2000-2001 Parity Committee (elected)2000-2001 Practical Ministries Field (elected), Chair2000-2001 MA in Spiritual Formation and Evangelism, Director2000-2001 Women’s Center, Faculty Sponsor2000-2001 Order of St. Luke, Faculty Sponsor

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