MTS Faculty

Jody Hill, D.Min.
President

Carmichael D. Crutchfield, D.Min., Ph.D.
Clara Scott Chair of Church and Ministry and Professor of Christian Education, Spiritual Formation, and Youth Ministry

Mary Lin Hudson, Ph.D.
Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics

Michael K. Turner, Ph.D.
Hamilton and Varnell Chair in Wesleyan Studies, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity & Director of the Methodist House of Studies

Janel Kragt Bakker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mission and Culture

Christopher Davis, D.Min.
Associate Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Ministry, Associate Dean of Doctoral Studies & Director of Community Engagement

Jonathan Jeffords, D.Min.
Director of the Center for Pastoral Wholeness & Chaplaincy Studies

Tricia Vesely, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Christian Ethics

Rev. Farris Blount
Assistant Professor of Theology

Peter Gathje, Ph.D.
Professor of Christian Ethics & Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean

Mitzi L. Minor, Ph.D.
Mary Magdalene Professor of New Testament

Christy S. Woodbury-Moore, D.Min.
Assistant Professor of Spiritual Formation & Director of Supervised Ministry
Faculty Emeriti
Paul R. Dekar
Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Mission
Dr. Jay Earheart-Brown
Professor Emeritus of Theology
Dr. Barbara A. Holmes
Professor Emeritus of Ethics and African American Studies
Dr. Waldo E. Knickerbocker
Professor Emeritus of Church History
Dr. Matt Mathews
Professor Emeritus of Theology
Dr. V. Steven Parrish
Professor Emeritus of Old Testament
Dr. G. Lee Ramsey
Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology and Homiletics
Dr. Robert Stanley Wood
Professor Emeritus of Church and Ministry