CTS Alumni and Students Bring Their Voices to MMPC 2026 

When preachers from across the country gather in Indianapolis for the 2026 Mixed Methods Preaching Conference, several of the voices helping lead the conversation will have deep connections to Christian Theological Seminary. 

Three CTS alumni—Rev. Lisa M. Goods, PhD (PhD ’26), Rev. Dr. Anastasia Holman (MDiv ’09, DMin ’25), and Rev. Dr. Milton Keys (MDiv ’17, DMin ’23)—will join current PhD students Rev. Dr. Aisha R. Lovens and Rev. Jason C. Reynolds as speakers at this year’s conference. Together, they reflect the breadth of scholarship, ministry, and lived experience that CTS students and graduates bring to the practice of preaching. 

The Mixed Methods Preaching Conference (MMPC), held October 19–22, invites preachers, ministry leaders, scholars, students, and curious learners into a gathering devoted to the craft, character, and calling of preaching. Directed by Rev. Courtney V. Buggs, PhD, this year’s conference explores the theme Just Preachers, Just Preaching, considering what it means for preaching to be ethical, honest, humane, and rooted in the preacher’s lived witness. 

For the CTS alumni and students participating in the conference, those questions intersect with ministries and scholarship addressing some of the most pressing conversations taking place in churches and communities today. 

Alumni Bringing Scholarship into Practice 

Rev. Lisa M. Goods, PhD (PhD ’26) completed her PhD in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric at CTS this year under the mentorship of Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas. A pastor, preacher, teacher, scholar, chaplain, womanist, and justice-seeker, Goods serves as Senior Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of Cleveland, where she is the first woman to serve as pastor in the congregation’s 170-year history. Her ministry has included pastoral leadership, theological education, chaplaincy, youth ministry, and community formation. 

Rev. Dr. Anastasia Holman (MDiv ’09, DMin ’25) brings together spiritual care, theological education, and healthcare leadership. An ACPE Certified Educator and Board Certified Chaplain, Holman serves as Director of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Education for the IU Health System. She also teaches in multiple theological and medical education settings and serves on the CTS Board of Trustees. Her work reflects the scholar-practitioner model, connecting theological reflection with the lived realities of patients, families, caregivers, and communities. 

For Rev. Dr. Milton Keys (MDiv ’17, DMin ’23), preaching and theology are deeply connected to disability advocacy and inclusion. Keys is founder and executive director of Advocates Embassy, which works with churches to create environments where people with disabilities are welcomed and have access to abundant life. A preacher, teacher, producer, and disability theologian, Keys also released his first book, Finding My Place: A Devotional About Disability and the Human Experience, through Advocates Embassy in 2025. 

Current Students Exploring New Questions in Preaching 

CTS’s presence at MMPC also includes two members of Cohort 3 of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric whose research is exploring emerging and sometimes challenging questions for contemporary preaching. 

Rev. Dr. Aisha R. Lovens studies sex rhetoric in Black churches, embodiment, eros, womanist sexual ethics, and the homiletical possibilities found within Black literary and religious traditions. Her scholarship, teaching, workshops, and public engagement seek to create intellectually rigorous and ethically grounded conversations about preaching, sexuality, embodiment, and Black religious life. In 2025, she was named a Sacred Writes Fellow for public-facing scholars, and her forthcoming work includes a quare womanist reading of Juanita Bynum’s No More Sheets. 

Rev. Jason C. Reynolds is examining another rapidly evolving question: the effects of artificial intelligence on Black preaching. His research interests also include ethics, narrative preaching, and rhetorical analysis of scripture and sermons. Reynolds has taught preaching in seminary and community settings, including serving as a teaching assistant for Dr. Buggs at CTS and leading seminars examining AI and preaching. Beyond his scholarship, he serves as Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Jose, California, where his ministry has included education, public health partnerships, community advocacy, and the creative arts. 

Formation That Extends Beyond the Classroom 

The presence of CTS alumni and students throughout MMPC illustrates one of the ideas at the heart of the conference: preaching is shaped not only by what happens in the pulpit, but by the lives, communities, questions, and experiences preachers bring with them. 

It also reflects the continuing relationship between MMPC and theological education at CTS. The conference began in 2019 under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas as an extension of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric. Today, alumni and current students are helping carry that work forward—bringing their scholarship into conversation with the wider preaching community and inviting others to think deeply about what faithful, ethical, and compelling preaching requires now. 

At MMPC 2026, those conversations will range from disability and embodiment to spiritual care, womanist thought, artificial intelligence, pastoral leadership, and justice. Together, these CTS voices demonstrate that the study of preaching is not separate from the realities facing congregations and communities. It is formed in conversation with them. 

The 2026 Mixed Methods Preaching Conference, Just Preachers, Just Preaching, will take place October 19–22. Learn More: www.cts.edu/mmpc/ 

Maxwell Muska (MAMFT ’26): From Youth Ministry to Community Mental Health 

When Maxwell “Max” Muska (MAMFT ’26) began working with young people at First Presbyterian Church in Shelbyville, Indiana, he quickly discovered that being present sometimes meant confronting needs he wasn’t yet equipped to address. 

Muska came to Indiana in March 2020 and joined the church as Associate Pastor, having already completed seminary and earned his Master of Divinity. Much of his work focused on youth ministry. Many of the young people who found their way to the church were struggling to find a sense of belonging elsewhere. Some were navigating difficult family circumstances, mental health concerns, and generational patterns that church leaders hoped to help them overcome. 

Muska could listen. He could mentor. He could offer pastoral support. But he also began to recognize the limits of what he could provide without clinical training. 

“We could be mentors and listen,” he recalled, but providing direct mental health care required something more. That realization eventually led Muska back to school—and to Christian Theological Seminary. 

Today, that journey has taken him from youth ministry to earning his Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy at CTS, participating in the 2025–2026 FAHS Minority Fellowship Program, and beginning a career in community mental health. 

Finding the Right Path at CTS 

Muska first explored CTS in 2022–2023, initially considering the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. When his mother’s health declined, he spent significant time traveling back and forth between Indy and his hometown of Pittsburgh to help care for her, which led him to postpone graduate school. 

After his mother’s passing in late 2023, conversations with people in the CTS counseling programs had helped him recognize that marriage and family therapy was a better fit for what he hoped to accomplish. 

He began the MFT program in spring 2024, and he arrived with a plan. 

Muska remembers thinking he would go to class, earn his degree, avoid getting too involved, and move on. 

“Thankfully,” he said, “that isn’t what happened.” 

He soon connected with classmates, faculty, and supervisors and discovered a level of collaboration he had not expected. Attending MFT Live as a pre-practicum student was particularly influential, giving him an opportunity to see how much learning could happen in a collaborative clinical environment. Eventually, Muska joined the student leadership team and served as a program assistant during the MFT program’s reaccreditation study. 

“CTS was a really collaborative environment, really welcoming,” Muska said. “We all supported one another.” 

A Fellowship Focused on Community 

Muska first learned about the Foundation for the Advancement of Human Systems (FAHS) Minority Fellowship Program from CTS faculty before he even enrolled. Later, an information session about the program brought the opportunity back to his attention. 

This time, it clicked. 

The fellowship’s emphasis on preparing mental health professionals to serve communities aligned closely with the kind of clinician Muska hoped to become, particularly his interest in serving LGBTQ+ youth and other populations who may experience barriers to mental health care. He applied without expecting to be selected. 

Then came the news that he had been chosen as a 2025–2026 Master’s Fellow. 

Through the fellowship, Muska participated in professional development, educational webinars, mentoring, and collaborative work with other fellows. Participants documented their academic and clinical progress, developed professional plans for their careers, and worked in small groups to design community-based mental health interventions. 

For Muska, the latter brought him back to experiences that had helped send him to CTS in the first place. 

Responding to Youth Suicide Through Community 

During Muska’s ministry in Shelbyville, the community experienced multiple deaths of young people by suicide. One individual in the youth group experienced the loss of his best friend and then his sibling within the course of one year. 

The losses affected not only their families but also other young people throughout the community. Muska began asking questions that would later inform his clinical interests: How does a community support young people grieving the death of a peer? How can it respond to trauma while reducing the risk that other young people will experience suicidal thoughts or behaviors? 

Those experiences made his fellowship group project especially meaningful. His group developed a proposal focused on reducing suicide risk among youth populations. 

Muska’s research reinforced something he had already begun to understand through ministry: individual care matters, but communities themselves also play an important role in healing. 

“What I learned—from research articles and long-term studies of communities affected by youth suicide—is that community-based interventions, particularly group therapy or groups that come together that invite these kids to talk about their experiences, make a major difference in lowering the rate of suicidality and depression among those youth,” Muska said. 

For him, the research underscored the importance of sustained community involvement. 

“The community coming alongside these kids and helping them process their grief helps lower that risk.” 

Learning Across the Mental Health Field 

The fellowship also gave Muska opportunities to learn alongside mental health professionals from across the country. 

At an intensive training institute in St. Louis, he attended workshops on community mental health, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, burnout prevention, and using systemic approaches to promote change within communities. Just one day after completing his CTS capstone presentation, he was on a plane headed to the institute. 

He also participated in a multidisciplinary summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together fellows and professionals from marriage and family therapy, psychology, social work, and other disciplines. The gathering explored how mental health professionals can move beyond disciplinary silos and provide more integrated care. 

Mentorship provided another important connection. Muska was paired with a graduate of the fellowship and used their conversations to explore questions about working in community mental health while eventually developing a private practice—and how to build a sustainable career without burning out. 

That combination closely resembles Muska’s own vision for the future. After reaching full licensure, he hopes eventually to maintain a private practice while continuing to work in community mental health. 

In fact, the fellowship already played an unexpected role in that next chapter: Muska found the community mental health position he now holds with Aspire Indiana Health while attending the intensive training institute and submitted his application from there. 

A Connection That Continues 

Although Muska has completed the student portion of the fellowship, his connection to the program is not ending. 

His cohort has transitioned into the fellowship alumni network, where former fellows can continue connecting, sharing accomplishments, and supporting one another. Alumni may also return as presenters or volunteer as mentors for future fellows. 

That continuing network reflects something Muska has encountered throughout his journey—from the young people and families who first shaped his vocational direction to the collaborative community he discovered at CTS and the national network of mental health professionals he has met through the fellowship. 

His path has changed since he first arrived in Indiana as a pastor in 2020. But the purpose underlying it has remained remarkably consistent: being present with people, strengthening communities, and helping young people and families find support when they need it. 

For other CTS students considering applying to the FAHS Minority Fellowship Program, Muska’s advice is much simpler than the journey that brought him there. 

“Apply!” he said. “It’s absolutely worth it. It’s a tremendous experience.”  

Healing Begins with Showing Up

For CTS alumna Denise Deen, MAMFT ’26, healing isn’t only about rebuilding after disaster—it’s about helping people know they have not been forgotten. 

The roof still needed repairs. 

Months after Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of Jamaica, students at a private school in St. Elizabeth were learning beneath reminders of the storm. When Denise Deen, MAMFT ’26, and her husband, Abdul, arrived with school supplies, food, hygiene products, and other essential items, they expected to help meet practical needs. 

What they didn’t expect was a conversation that would stay with Denise long after she returned home. 

“The administrator shared that they felt forgotten,” Denise recalled. “Just knowing someone cared enough to come meant so much.” 

It was a powerful reminder that recovery isn’t measured only by repaired buildings or restored utilities. Sometimes, healing begins with the simple act of being present. 

For Denise, a recent graduate of Christian Theological Seminary’s School of Counseling, that understanding has become central to both her profession and her calling. 

Rooted in Home, Growing Through Service 

The Jamaica trip, which took place in June 2026, was part of the ongoing work of Miya’s Foundation, the nonprofit Denise and Abdul founded in 2015. 

Named after their youngest daughter, the organization grew from a simple desire to continue serving after returning from a mission trip to Sierra Leone. They began collecting gently used clothing, shoes, school supplies, and household items in their garage. Before long, the donations overflowed into rented storage units, and what started as a grassroots effort became a registered nonprofit with an international reach. 

Although Denise and Abdul have built their life together in the United States, their work remains deeply personal. Denise was born in Jamaica, while Abdul was born in Sierra Leone, and both continue to have family in their countries of origin. Each trip is an opportunity not only to reconnect with loved ones, but also to serve communities that helped shape their lives. 

Today, Miya’s Foundation supports humanitarian efforts in Jamaica, Sierra Leone, and Indianapolis. In addition to international relief work, the organization participates in HVAF of Indiana’s annual Stand Down event by providing hygiene care bags for veterans experiencing homelessness. Donations are sorted, packed, and prepared by hand before being transported (if marked for international shipment) and personally distributed through trusted relationships within each community. 

A Second Chance 

Denise’s own journey to CTS was not a straight path. 

Years earlier, an experience had left her uncertain whether CTS was the right place for her to receive family counseling. When she later felt called to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy, encouragement from a CTS grad at work led her to take another look. 

That decision changed everything. 

“The program helped me work through things I didn’t realize I was still carrying,” Denise reflected. Through her coursework, faculty relationships, and personal reflection, she found herself doing more than preparing for a career—she was experiencing her own healing. 

The experience deepened her belief that effective counselors don’t simply master clinical techniques; they must also be willing to examine their own stories with honesty and compassion. 

Today, Denise works with Family & Community Partners, where two of the organization’s three leading partners are CTS alumni: Rev. Nick Orange (MDiv/MAPF ’10) and Rev. Dwight Holland (MAPF ’06). Working alongside fellow graduates is a daily reminder of the ways CTS alumni continue to support individuals, families, and communities together. 

Healing Beyond the Therapy Room 

The June trip to Jamaica came just one month after Denise graduated with her Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. Even as she celebrated commencement, she was completing her capstone project, integrating cognitive behavioral therapy with a family case study through the lens of womanist theology. 

She didn’t expect to begin applying those lessons so quickly. 

As Denise and Abdul traveled throughout communities recovering from Hurricane Melissa, people naturally began sharing their stories—the fear they experienced during the storm, the uncertainty of rebuilding, and the emotional toll of moving forward. 

“My clinical skills really helped me hold space for people,” Denise said. “Sometimes they just needed someone to listen.” 

Those conversations reinforced something Denise had been learning throughout her counseling education: healing is about caring for the whole person. 

Meeting practical needs matters. So does creating space for grief, honoring people’s experiences, affirming their dignity, and reminding them they are not alone. 

During one visit to the school in St. Elizabeth, Denise and Abdul were able to provide school supplies purchased with support from CTS. Yet some of the most meaningful moments came not through the gifts they delivered, but through the relationships they built with teachers, administrators, and families who simply wanted someone to hear their stories. 

As Denise reflected on the trip, she recognized a connection between her own experience as a student and the work she now does through Miya’s Foundation. Before she could create space for others to heal, she first experienced what it meant to continue her own journey of healing. 

A Calling That Continues 

Long before earning her graduate degree, Denise dedicated her career to serving others. She spent more than eight years as a family case manager with the Indiana Department of Child Services before joining Family & Community Partners, where she continues supporting children and families while pursuing professional licensure. Looking ahead, she hopes to expand her work with older adults while continuing to grow Miya’s Foundation’s outreach both locally and internationally. 

For Denise, these roles are inseparable. 

Whether supporting children and families in Indiana, donating care packages for veterans experiencing homelessness, or walking alongside communities rebuilding after disaster, she approaches each opportunity with the same conviction: every person deserves to be seen, heard, and treated with dignity. 

Her experience at CTS strengthened that conviction while equipping her with practical tools to live it out. The School of Counseling affirmed that healing is rarely limited to one dimension of a person’s life. It involves meeting immediate needs while also offering compassion, presence, and hope. 

The supplies Denise and Abdul delivered to Jamaica will eventually be used. Students will fill notebooks, families will share meals, and damaged buildings will continue to be repaired. 

But the lesson Denise carried home reaches beyond any single shipment of donations. 

Healing often begins long before everything is fixed. 

It begins when someone chooses to show up, listen with compassion, and remind another person that they have not been forgotten. 

That is the kind of care Denise now carries wherever she serves—from counseling sessions in Indiana to communities across the ocean. It’s a calling shaped by faith, strengthened through education, and lived out one relationship at a time. 

Scholarship for Church and Community: 2026 CTS Dissertations and Theses 

Christian Theological Seminary graduates across multiple advanced degree programs are contributing thoughtful and timely scholarship to conversations shaping the church, academy, and wider community. Through dissertations and theses grounded in ministry, theology, preaching, pastoral care, justice, and lived experience, 2026 graduates from the School of Theology explored questions that reflect both the challenges and possibilities of faithful leadership today. 

Through the Doctor of Ministry, Doctor of Philosophy, and Master of Theological Studies degree programs, students engage deeply in research, reflection, and writing that contributes to the life of the church and broader community. This year’s dissertations and theses reflect a wide range of topics including preaching, justice, trauma, spirituality, ministry leadership, and the pursuit of beloved community while embodying CTS’ commitment to rigorous scholarship, spiritual formation, healing, and human dignity. 

Doctor of Ministry Dissertations 

The Doctor of Ministry (DMin) in Church and Community Leadership degree program at Christian Theological Seminary is designed for experienced ministry leaders seeking to deepen their theological reflection, vocational practice, and leadership capacity. Rooted in the integration of scholarship and lived ministry, the program equips students to address contemporary challenges facing congregations, communities, and the broader church through research grounded in real-world practice and transformation. 

This year’s DMin graduates explored questions of ministry leadership, trauma-sensitive worship, feminist theology, compassionate care, queer inclusion, and embodied spiritual practice through projects rooted in lived experience and congregational life. Their work demonstrates the intersection of scholarship, ministry, and social transformation that shapes doctoral formation at CTS. 

• Kerry L. Connelly — Taproot and Weed: A Neo-Radical White Feminist Path to the Beloved Community  

“My work centers on reclaiming a radical White Feminism for holistic, responsible & trans-inclusive membership in Beloved Community,” Connelly shared. “It’s about what I call intersectional dominance — the experience of being both oppressed (because of our womanhood) and dominant (because of our Whiteness) within a White patriarchal society — and how we can heal from that to become whole, healthy members of a world that is just for everyone.”  

• Anne Strange Garner — Blooming in Red Clay: An Autoethnographic Study of Women in Ministry in Upstate South Carolina  

“‘Blooming in Red Clay’ examines the ways patriarchy, misogyny, and theological interpretations have been used to limit women’s access to religious leadership, particularly within the culture of the American South,” Garner said. “By exploring vocation, gender, identity, and ministry through lived experience, it contributes to broader conversations about who is recognized as called, credible, and worthy of authority in faith communities. At its heart, the project invites greater honesty, inclusion, and imagination about leadership, belonging, and liberation within religious life.” 

• Selena Reyes — Showing Mercy: Exploring Queer Exclusion in Latin American Churches  

“My dissertation is going to help in the education process of Latin American churches to become more tolerant in expanding the kingdom of God,” Reyes shared. 

• Cassidy Hall — Become All Flame: Queering Mysticism for Everyday Life  

“Building on my book, Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality, my dissertation focuses on the intersection of mysticism and queerness,” Hall shared. “Both are accessible to everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, as ways of subverting norms and institutions of dominance. The autoethnographic exploration includes personal stories, ancient mystics, and conversations with LGBTQIA+ folks about their experiences of mysticism. A version of the dissertation will be released with Fortress Press in the future.” 

• Izzy Harbin — Trauma-Sensitive Liturgy: Healing through Embodied Spiritual Practices  

“I believe that the words we say to and over one another matter, so we need to create safe spaces for everyone in worship,” Harbin said. “Embodied spiritual practices are a necessity in the 21st century.” 

• Thomas P. Markey — Confirmation as Compassionate Care: A Savvy and Subversive Sojourn  

“As a youth, my experience in confirmation was where the seeds of my faith were planted and where the roots of tradition and congregational life started to take hold,” Markey shared. “While important formation and education took place during my confirmation journey, what truly grounded me in a life of faith was being met with pastoral tenderness. In moments of deep curiosity and doubt, my questions were affirmed while the pastoral refrain I kept hearing was simple and subversive: ‘Keep coming back.’ 

“My experience in the Doctor of Ministry program became a source of healing, clarity, and renewal in both life and ministry. Professors served as wise and faithful guides, while classmates became trusted collaborators and dear friends.” 

Doctor of Philosophy in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric Dissertations 

CTS’ Doctor of Philosophy in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric (PhD) degree program prepares scholars, educators, and ministry leaders to engage the rich traditions of Black preaching, rhetoric, theology, and prophetic witness. This course of study emphasizes rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship, cultural analysis, and the transformative power of preaching within both church and society. 

2026 PhD graduates explored preaching traditions, trauma-informed proclamation, multicultural ministry, and the rhetoric of hope within the Black church tradition. Together, these dissertations engage questions of justice, proclamation, pastoral leadership, and communal transformation. 

• Alise D. Barrymore — The Mosaic Homiletic: African American Preaching for a Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural Congregation  

“I’m convinced that the future of the church rests in the hands of those who are critical thinkers and passionate pastoral leaders who embody the kin-dom of God,” Barrymore shared. “This program is a part of my calling to accomplish the work. That’s what I did.” 

• Lisa Maxine Goods — PreacHer Story: In Search of a Womanist Trauma-Informed Homiletic  

“I hope it will give voice to the trauma of Black women and how we can address it in a way of pastoral care in our sermonic rhetoric,” Goods said. “Completing my dissertation is sweet relief. I feel like this is not my graduation alone – that I am representing all the ancestors who went before, particularly my grandmother and all of the Black women who did not have this opportunity.” 

• Watson Jones III — Hope for the Present Darkness: The Rhetoric of Hope of Otis Moss Jr., 1962–1968  

“My work was helpful because it centered on hope in preaching and what that hope means in the world,” Jones shared. “I found inspiration personally, academically, and socially in the study of Otis Moss Jr. I credit Frank A. Thomas for giving us the tools to study in this fashion.” 

Master of Theological Studies Thesis Titles 

The Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree program at Christian Theological Seminary offers students the opportunity to engage deeply in theological inquiry, academic research, and interdisciplinary exploration. Through focused study and thesis research, students examine contemporary social, spiritual, and ethical questions while developing skills for scholarship, leadership, advocacy, and service in diverse vocational contexts. 

Over the course of the 2025–2026 academic year, Master of Theological Studies students successfully defended theses engaging questions of preaching, social media, consent, public health, theology, and faithful leadership in a rapidly changing world. Together, these projects reflect the interdisciplinary and justice-oriented scholarship encouraged at CTS. 

• Cindy J. Gil Perez — Hermanos en la Pandemia: Latinx Preaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Indiana  

“My thesis looks at sermons preached during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Gil Perez shared. “The goal is to increase dialogue between public health agencies and communities of faith.” She is also organizing a repository of these sermons to preserve them for future generations. 

• Jennifer L. Muszik — Love God, Love Neighbor: Confronting the Disintegration of Divine Design in the Age of Algorithmic Othering  

“The purpose of my thesis was to help society realize how social media algorithms are separating us from our divine design of love God and love neighbor,” Muszik said. “It looks at the importance of the sacred value of each individual, not just the persona and image we see on social media.” 

• Diana Maze Pine — Breaking the Script(ure): Aligning Faith, Freedom, and Consent in the Process of Theological Formation  

“My thesis explores how embedded religious scripts shape identity, embodiment, and belonging—particularly within high-control faith environments.” Pine shared. “The catastrophic spiritual collapse I was warned would come from self-trust, queerness, and critical thinking turned out to be surprisingly underwhelming; mostly it produced healthier relationships, motorcycles, community, significantly better theology, and a faith finally spacious enough for freedom, honesty, compassion, and joy.

“I chose this topic because I have lived the tension of loving faith while outgrowing the ways I was taught to hold it. I am transforming my thesis into a curriculum to support others deepening, deconstructing, or reconstructing faith with active participation and consent—because this little light of mine became much brighter through the journey, and I intend to hold it as a beacon so others might find a path toward freedom and abundant life.”

Through their dissertations and theses, this year’s CTS graduates contribute to ongoing conversations within the church, academy, and broader community while embodying the seminary’s commitment to scholarship, justice, healing, and human dignity. Congratulations, graduates, and thank you for sharing the fruits of your learning with our community! 

Those interested in exploring recent CTS dissertations and theses may do so through the CTS Library digital repository of recent dissertations and theses.