The core faculty of the Center for Christian Studies is composed of the pastors and staff of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. They are committed to teaching the core courses on a regular basis. Faculty for the 200 level and 300 level courses is a combination of lay teachers and outside professionals drawn from seminaries, universities, and corporate settings.
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Ariane Arpels-Josiah
Ariane Arpels-Josiah, a member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, completed her Ph.D. in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Her dissertation was on John Calvin, Jurgen Moltmann, and environmental ethics. She is also a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She did her M.Div. at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Theological Seminary, studied psychology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and received her B.A. (psychology) at Stanford University.
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Holly G. Atkinson
Dr. Atkinson is medical editor-in-chief of Everydayhealth.com, a leading consumer health website, and a consultant with KSR Associates, providing corporate development services to start-up healthcare companies. She is also Co-Director of the Advancing Idealism in Medicine Program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Atkinson is immediate Past President of Physicians for Human Rights and has worked in Uganda on human rights issues involving the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Jacob Bolton
Jacob Bolton is the Director of Family Ministries at
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. His undergraduate work took place at Kalamazoo College where he
played varsity baseball, worked at the chapel, for the maintenance department, and at the radio station,
and earned his bachelor’s degree while graduating
with honors from the Education Department. Jacob then came to New York to attend Union Theological Seminary where he earned his master’s of divinity degree in 2007. He has been employed by FAPC since the fall of 2005 and was recently married to his wife Sue.
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Bob Brennan
Bob Brennan served as Director of Communications at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church until his retirement
in December 2006. Previously he had worked for
almost 25 years with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Communications and Public Affairs during which time he had the opportunity to travel to many places in the world accompanying goodwill ambassadors Danny Kaye, Liv Ullmann, Peter Ustinov, Harry Belafonte, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Collins and Roger Moore.
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Joy Carol
Joy Carol is an author, speaker, spiritual director, and workshop and retreat leader. Ms. Carol has been an educator, counselor, women in development specialist, and manager of international development programs. Ms. Carol holds an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Nebraska Wesleyan, master’s of arts in spiritual direction from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church and in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland. Eleven years ago Joy had three close encounters with death and has since dedicated her life to spirituality and healing. She has been trained in trauma counseling, grief and bereavement, death and dying, hospice work, and healing techniques.
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Jane Carter Ingram
Jane Carter Ingram is a landscape ecologist and geographer who has focused on using ecological methods, principles and tools for informing environmental conservation and sustainable development efforts. She is particularly interested in how natural resource management and biodiversity conservation can be leveraged to decrease vulnerability of poor communities. Carter obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in England. Following this, she pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Currently, Dr. Ingram works at an international non-profit environmental organization on a program that is promoting the integration of environmental conservation, poverty reduction and natural resource governance at field sites throughout the developing world. Dr. Ingram has researched and worked in the United States, England, Kenya, Costa Rica, the Seychelles, Madagascar and post-tsunami Sri Lanka. She has served as a consultant with Environmental Defense, World Wide Fund for Nature-UK and Oxford Analytica and has collaborated with Rio Tinto; Royal Botanical Gardens, Royal Botinical Gardens Kew; the Smithsonian Institution; and the United Nations Development Program. Carter has published her work in multiple articles in academic journals, international conferences and in several documentaries on environmental issues in develeoping countries.
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James Como
James Como is a professor of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York, where he has taught for nearly forty years. A founding member of the New York C.S. Lewis Society (1969), Dr. Como’s books (Remembering C.S. Lewis and Branches to Heaven: the Geniuses of C.S. Lewis), as well as his articles, radio interviews, television appearances (among them The Question of God for PBS and Beyond Narnia for the Hallmark Channel), and lectures here and abroad are widely known.
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Mercedes Condy
Mercedes Condy has been a member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church since 1985. She has served on the Christian Education Commission, teaching with the Sunday School program for both youth and adults. Other activities have included serving on the Board of Deacons, Senior Pastor Nominating Committee, the Leadership Development Committee, and the Curriculum Committee of the Center for Christian Studies. Mercedes received a B.S. degree in Nursing at DePauw University and did graduate work at Stanford University and the University of California at Davis. She is presently employed with the Medical Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was the 1997 MSKCC Recipient of the Wholeness of Life Award from Health Care Chaplaincy.
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Michael Coniaris
Mike Coniaris currently serves as interim director of communications at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He is a graduate of Hartwick College with a bachelor of arts degree in theatre arts and political science. As a former campaign consultant, Coniaris served on various political campaigns, including the 1996 Iowa Caucus.
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Eric Daniels
Eric was raised in New Rochelle, NY and has a BARCH from Pratt Institute School of Architecture. He has taught at both Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Interior Design and is presently an Adjunct Professor at FIT. Eric is a licensed architect and runs his own architecture and design firm in SoHo, specializing in high-end residential projects. As a member of the Board of Trustees, Eric served on the Property Administration Committee and the Legal and Insurance Committee. He has also served on the Nominating Committee and Mission Review Committee for both an Associate Pastor for Outreach and the new Senior Pastor.
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Charles P. Dougherty
Charles P. Dougherty earned a diploma in Bible from the Moody Bible Institute. He graduated with a B.A. in History and Religion from New York University and with an M.A. in History from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Mr. Dougherty has taught Bible and church history courses at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for many years. He has served on Fifth Avenue’s Board of Trustees, and Session. He has been an usher/greeter and has taken 3 mission trips.
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Emily Dunlap
Emily Dunlap, L.C.S.W., has been the social worker on staff at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church since 1982. Prior to earning her master’s degree in social work from New York University Graduate School in Social Work, she received a B.A. degree in English literature from Mount Holyoke College. “Teaching the creative writing class”, she says, “is a real pleasure
for me.”
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Kate Dunn
Kate Dunn became the Temporary Supply Pastor for Congregational Care at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in 2006, after serving two years as Parish Associate for Visitation. She previously worked in a Validated Ministry with West Side Federation for
Senior Housing and as Parish Associate at Rutgers Presbyterian Church. Kate received her bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, her master’s of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, and
a master’s in fine arts in fiction writing from Columbia University. Kate is married to Jim Ellis, a psychotherapist, and they have two children.
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Edward Ekermeyer
Edward Ekermeyer, a writer and lecturer in American and Global History, earned a master of religious education from Wesley Theological Seminary, a masters of arts in international Relations from Boston University, and a bachelor of science in history from Florida State University. He taught American and Global History in Christian schools on Long Island, Indications and Warning Intelligence at Defense Intelligence College, and adult Christian education subjects at Vienna Presbyterian Church, Virginia.
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Oliver Fein
Dr. Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health and Associate Dean (Affiliations) at Weill Cornell Medical College. As Associate Dean, he also heads the Office of Global Health Education. In 2004, he was elected to the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Fein is also Chair of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the National Board of the Global Health Education Consortium.
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Joseph J. Fins
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., is Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
City, where he is also Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Fins is an adjunct faculty member at The Rockefeller University. Recently, he received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. A practicing internist and Director of Medical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Fins is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. In 2000, he was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, by appointment of Governor Eliot Spitzer. Dr. Fins lectures widely and has written more than 150 publications on medical ethics and health policy.
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Daniel W. Fitzgerald
Daniel W. Fitzgerald, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr Fitzgerald trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He lived in Haiti for seven years, where he worked at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital and the GHESKIO Clinics. His areas of interest include AIDS and tuberculosis prevention and therapy. Other interests include improving informed consent and ethical guidelines for the conduct of clinical research in resource-poor countries.
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Gordon Franz
Mr. Franz combines a scholar’s love for God’s Word
and his archaeological and geographical knowledge of the Lands of the Bible. As a former instructor at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, he has led numerous field trips throughout Israel and Jordan.
More recently he has explored Cyprus, Italy, Malta, Egypt, Turkey and Greece. Mr. Franz is a graduate of Florida Bible College (Bible) and Christian Heritage College (History). He pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem and finished his graduate work at Columbia Biblical Seminary. He is a Bible instructor at the New York School of the Bible, lectures at the Evangelical (Chinese) Mission and Seminary International in NJ, and is an adjunct professor for the Talbot School of Theology’s “Bible Lands” program.
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Janet S. Gibbs
Janet S. Gibbs is a psychoanalyst in private practice
in New York. During the summers at Chautauqua Institution she co-teaches a variety of critical
subjects with psychiatrist David Allen, M.D. They combine their expertise and experience in clinical work in courses on depression, intimacy, contemplation, contentment, and love. Ms. Gibbs graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, did graduate study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and received her certificate in psychoanalysis from the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York. She has also served as a supervisor in the Training Institute of NPAP. Ms. Gibbs was Clerk of Session of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for ten years.
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Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs is Editor-at-Large at Time magazine. The author of well over 100 cover stories and regular essays and profiles, she won the National Magazine Award for the black-bordered special issue on September 11, 2001. She was the lead Time writer on virtually every major news event from Oklahoma City to Columbine to Katrina. When the news is quiet, she has focused on stories exploring the intersections of religion, values and politics. She also serves as a consultant to CBS News. She graduated from Yale and has a degree in politics and philosophy from Oxford, where she was a Marshall scholar. She has twice served as the Ferris Professor at Princeton, where she taught a seminar on Politics and the Press. She is a former elder and Moderator of the Board of Deacons of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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Thomas Gillespie
Dr. Gillespie, a graduate of Pepperdine College (BA), Princeton Theological Seminary (B.D.), and Claremont Graduate School (Ph.D. in New Testament Studies). He was ordained by the Los Angeles Presbytery in 1954 and he was the organizing pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Garden Grove, California. He served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Burlingame, California; he served as president and professor of NY at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has been married to Barbara Lugenbill Gillespie (53 years): they have three children and five grandchildren. He is the author of The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy.
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Antonio M. Gotto Jr.
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D., D.Phil., is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell, and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University. Previously, at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Gotto was Chairman of the Department of
Medicine, Scientific Director of the DeBakey Heart Center, and holder of the J.S. Abercrombie Professor Chair for Atherosclerosis and Lipoprotein Research. He also served as Chief of the Internal Medicine Service
at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. Dr. Gotto received his postgraduate degree in biochemistry at Oxford University in England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Since becoming Dean of Weill Cornell, Dr. Gotto has worked with the Board of Overseers, led by Chairman Sanford I. Weill and Mrs. Weill, and with the faculty to expand the college’s research, teaching, and patient care mission within the developing world, addressing the growing problems of disease and poverty.
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Daryl A. Hall
Daryl A. Hall has been a member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church since 1985. She holds two master’s degrees: one in organizational development and another in instructional technology. After
twenty-plus years in a Fortune 500 company, she founded her own human resources company. Ms. Hall’s courses are known for being informative, interactive and relaxed.
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Dale Hansen
Dale Hansen has been a member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church since 1994. He was a member of the Board of Deacons from November 1999 to June 2003 and served as its Moderator during his final year. He now serves as chair of the Stewardship Committee on Session. Dale was a member of the Crossroads Capital Campaign Committee. He also serves as the church’s archivist and is chairing the Bicentennial Committee for our 200th church anniversary in 2008 and also serves as a Stephen Minister. Dale graduated from the United States Military Academy, and earned a master’s in business administration from Xavier University and a juris doctor degree from Fordham Law School. He is Chief Operating Officer of Raritan Valley Technology Group, and Client Relations Manager, ShipServ, a London, England, based e-commerce company.
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Karinne Hernandez
Karinne Hernandez is a consultant with the Gallup Organization. She is a graduate of New York
University where she obtained a master’s degree in public administration in public and nonprofit management
and policy. She earned a bachelor of
arts degree in political science from Rutgers
University. Karinne has worked with numerous
non-profit organizations on national civic and voter education campaigns covering voter registration, legislative redistricting, and voter protection in Latino communities.
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Jane Carter Ingram
is a landscape ecologist and geographer who has focused on using ecological methods, principles and tools for informing environmental conservation and sustainable development efforts. She is particularly interested in how natural resource management and biodiversity conservation can be leveraged to decrease vulnerability of poor communities. Carter obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in England. Following this, she pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Currently, Dr. Ingram works at an international
non-profit environmental organization on a program that is promoting the integration of environmental conservation, poverty reduction and natural resource governance at field sites throughout the developing world. Dr. Ingram has researched and worked in the United States, England, Kenya, Costa Rica, the Seychelles, Madagascar and post-tsunami Sri Lanka. She has served as a consultant with Environmental Defense, World Wide Fund for Nature-UK and Oxford Analytica and has collaborated with Rio Tinto; Royal Botanical Gardens, Royal Botinical Gardens Kew; the Smithsonian Institution; and the United Nations Development Program. Carter has published her work in multiple articles in academic journals, international conferences and in several documentaries on environmental issues in develeoping countries.
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Dale T. Irvin
Dale T. Irvin is Acting President and Professor of World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, he has been teaching at the Center for Christian Studies since its inception.
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Richard Laine
Mr. Laine is a retired health care executive and a licensed nursing home administrator. Having obtained a baccalaureate degree in English literature in the 1970s, he has had a lifelong interest in literature and has devoted a substantial part of his career to expository and technical writing. He holds two master’s degrees, the first in health care administration and the second, awarded in 2006, in English literature. His master’s degree thesis in English literature explored Christian themes in John Updike's four-volume meganovel Rabbit Angstrom, of which Rabbit, Run is the first volume in the series.
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Zoe Lazarides
Zoe Lazarides has been a member of FAPC since 2000. She received her bachelor of arts degree in Christian education from the University of Dubuque; her master’s in Christian education from Union Theological Seminary; and a master’s degree in personnel psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has worked as Director of Christian Education in several churches, taught Bible in the Weekday Religious Education Program in Public Schools in Virginia, worked as a counselor and psychometrician at O.I.C., a training program for the hard core unemployed, and as a social worker. Zoe served on the Board of Deacons and is currently a discussion leader and facilitator of a Small Ministry Group, as well as the Co Chair of the CCS coordinator’s committee.
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Peter Le Jacq
Rev. Dr Peter Le Jacq, MM, MD, a graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College, also has Diplomas in Tropical Medicine and International Health. In 1987, he was ordained at Maryknoll Seminary after completing his M.Div. degree. Since then,
he has been a medical missionary working at, or on behalf of, Bugando Hospital, Tanzania. Born on Christmas Eve, he wrote his eighth grade religion paper on “Why I Want to
Be a Missionary Priest-Doctor in Africa.” Rev. Dr Le Jacq was a special consultant to Pope John Paul II on AIDS in East Africa. He is fluent in Swahili.
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David Liu
David Liu is the coordinator of Small Group Ministries and Fellowship at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Prior to joining the staff five years ago, he served as an elder and on several church steering committees. David taught elementary grades for over thirty years in the New York City public school system. He holds a master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education. He and Karen served on the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School Board. David was president of the Parents’ Association of Saint Ann’s School for six years. He and Karen have been married for 37 years.
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Karen Liu
Karen Liu is the Assistant Executive Director of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Childcare Division, supervising the agency’s 11 day care centers (infants to school-age) and Universal Pre-K programs, serving over 1,200 children in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and earned a master’s degree in education from NYU. What was intended to be a year of study became a life-long dedication to the children and families of the Asian-American communities of the greater New York City area. She has served as teacher, director, and administrator for the Chinese-American Planning Council for over three and a half decades. She has served as a deacon and on many committees at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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Elizabeth Matta
Elizabeth Matta received her bachelor of arts degree
in theatre design and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. For six years she taught drawing and painting at the Lester Polakov Studio and Forum Stage Design. Elizabeth was trained and certified as a master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) at the NLP Center of New York, after which she worked as an assistant trainer.
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J. Oscar McCloud
J. Oscar McCloud was Associate Pastor for Administration at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1995 until 2005. He is a graduate of Berea College with a bachelor of arts in sociology and psychology, and Union Theological Seminary with a master’s of divinity. Prior to joining the staff of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Oscar McCloud served as Executive Director, The Fund for Theological Education, and General Director, Program Agency, Presbyterian Church (USA). He served as moderator, Presbytery of New York City from 2005-2006. He is completing a second year as Coordinator of Seminary Field Education Program at Brick Presbyterian Church.
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Mary E. McNamara
Mary E. McNamara is Executive Vice President of Union Theological Seminary. She is a graduate of Carleton College with a B.A. in Religion and of Harvard Divinity School where she received an M.Div. She has served as Moderator of Presbytery and as Chairperson of the Committee on Ministry and Strategic Planning Committee. Currently she serves as Chairperson of the Nominating Committee and as Chairperson of the Board of Wartburg-Mt. Vernon, a nursing home senior services complex. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Theological Schools.
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Roosevelt Montás
Roosevelt Montás is a lecturer in the Columbia University Core Curriculum, where he teaches courses on the history of Western moral and political thought and in 19th-century American cultural and intellectual history. He holds a philosophy degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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James Moorhead
James Moorhead is Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary where he has taught since 1984. A graduate of Westminster College, Princeton Seminary, and Yale University, Jim includes among his publications American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 and World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925.
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Estomih Mtui, MD
Dr. Mtui is an Associate Professor of Clinical Anatomy at Weill Cornell Medical College and at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He is also a leader of Weill Cornell’s affiliation with Bugando Medical Center, Tanzania, where he trains medical students to care for the poor and underserved. Dr, Mtui works with REMEDY (Recovered Medical Equipment for the Developing World), donating used medical books and supplies. Each year, he devotes almost two months to providing pro bono healthcare in Africa.
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Elaine Padilla
Elaine Padilla is a Ph.D. candidate in theology at the Casperson School of Graduate Studies at Drew University, and an Adjunct Professor at New York Theological Seminary. This is her fourth year teaching at the Center for Christian Studies.
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Jill Waymire Paine
Jill Waymire Paine is a Ph.D. candidate in
social-organizational psychology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on leadership and organizational change. For the past four years, Jill has worked as an organizational development consultant at Pfizer. Jill has worked with FAPC leadership to develop the vision statements for FAPC and Next Ministries. She has also served as a member of the FAPC Strategic Planning Task Group. Jill holds a bachelor of arts degree in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder (magna cum laude) and a master of arts degree in organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Jane Perdue
Jane is the wife of Roland, mother of five grown children, grandmother of nine, and a published poet. She is also a retired high school teacher who loved teaching and only gave it up because it was not
compatible with their itinerant present lifestyle.
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Roland Perdue, III
Roland Perdue, III is the Interim Senior Pastor and head of staff at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. He was ordained to the ministry, both as a pastor and for the denomination. He served congregations in Decatur, GA; Austin, TX; Jacksonville, Fl; Birmingham, MI; and El Paso, TX. He retired in 1998 and since that time he has served a series of interim pastorates in large, multi-staff churches.
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Andrew Rick-Miller
Andrew Rick-Miller is the Program Officer of Science and Religion with the John Templeton Foundation. For three years, he served as Outreach Coordinator for the Local Societies Initiative, a program of the Metanexus Institute that supported science and religion dialogue groups around the globe. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied physics and English literature, and Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied theology, philosophy, and the relationship between religion and science. Through teaching, speaking, and preaching, he seeks to bring the dialogue between religion and science into local congregations. He is married to Katherine, a Presbyterian pastor in Philadelphia, and has a daughter, Ruth.
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Paul Rock
Paul Rock is Associate Pastor for Young Adults and Families at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He received his undergraduate degrees in history and secondary education at the University of Wisconsin and his M. Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and Stacey have been married for 15 years and have three young children.
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Pablo Rodríguez del Pozo
Dr. Rodríguez del Pozo is an Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics, at Weill Cornell Medical College in the emirate of Qatar, where he is developing a medical ethics curriculum that extends throughout the entire course of study. He has extensive international experience in researching and teaching biomedical ethics. His interests include justice in healthcare resource allocation, the ethics of clinical research, and the challenges of forging a transcultural bioethics based on broad common values.
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Jill Schaeffer
Jill Schaeffer is adjunct faculty at New York Theological Seminary and a member of New York City Presbytery. She is a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary with a Master’s of Divinity degree, and of Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, California, with a doctoral, in philosophical theology. She previously served as pastor of Woodlawn Heights Presbyterian Church and Director of the Interfaith New York City Disaster Task Force. She also spent 13 years serving with the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and with the Reformed Church of France, based in Paris.
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Robert F. Smylie
Robert F. Smylie served from 1975 to 2002 as the Presbyterian Church’s representative to the United Nations in the Church’s capacity as a nongovernmental organization. Following his retirement, he worked as the Director of the Disarmament Program of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Mr. Smylie is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and holds M. Div. and Th.M. degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and a M. Phil. from Columbia University. For nine years he was on the faculty of the University of Florida. He has been associated with the Center for Christian Studies since 2002. He has served the national church as a consultant on numerous studies, contributed numerous articles and papers, and served as the content editor of a dozen issues of the Church’s publication,
Church and Society.
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Carol Storey-Johnson
Dr. Storey-Johnson is the Senior Associate Dean (Education) at Weill Cornell Medical College, where her duties include leading the educational mission and building the infrastructure to support curricular innovation. She is also Chair of the Medical Education Council and Chair of Strategic Planning Initiatives for the educational mission, as well as an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Storey-Johnson lectures frequently at national and regional professional meetings on curriculum design and enhancing teaching and other professional skills.
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Randolph L.C. Weber
Randolph L.C. Weber became Associate Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1991. He carries particular responsibility for pastoral care and cultivation of new members. He has taught “Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts” several times each year since his arrival. He developed this course in churches he served previously in Pennsylvania. Rev. Weber received his M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary and his B.A. at the University of Virginia.
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Virginia Willis
Virginia is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and is retired from IBM where she was an instructor. She has served on the Board of Deacons and the Session at FAPC. She has studied the Bible with the Bible Study Fellowship in New York City for the past ten years. She is a faithful student at the Center for Christian Studies where she takes at least five CCS classes every year.
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Elliott Wright
Elliott Wright has taught in the Center for Christian Studies since its inception. He is a United Methodist clergyman, and a native of Alabama, who works with the interactions of religious and social issues. He also frequently teaches Biblical courses. The author of several books, he has written on religion and tax law, mission theology, the church and economic development, and both secular and religious education. He is affiliated with the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries. He resides in Westchester County, New York, and Sussex County, Delaware.
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Eugenia Yau
Eugenia Oi Yan Yau is serving as Assistant Director of Music for Children and Youth at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. She received her bachelor’s degree in music at Hong Kong Baptist University, master’s degree at Texas State University, and completed a degree of doctor of musical arts in vocal performance at the University of Texas at Austin. Eugenia also received the Fellowship Diploma of Singing from Trinity College.
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