Recent Graduate, Dr. Susan Forshey, Promoted to Assistant Professor of Discipleship and Christian Formation at University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Susan Forshey joined the faculty of University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in August 2014 and was recently promoted to Assistant Professor of Discipleship and Christian Formation. She brings twenty years of experience in congregational lay ministry, administration, retreat leadership, spiritual direction, and Christian education, and ten years experience in higher education.
This past January, Susan completed a Ph.D. in Practical Theology with a concentration in Spirituality. While at Boston University School of Theology, she worked in the Center for Practical Theology as coordinator of the Spiritual Formation and Church Life project, and as a Marsh Chapel associate, pastoring students and leading retreats. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Role of Prayer in Theological Education for Ministry: Toward a Contemplative Practical Theological Pedagogy,” focused on creating a framework in which academic inquiry, first-person reflection, interpersonal dialogue, and practices of prayer can be intentionally explored in the theological classroom.
Dr. Forshey continues as a facilitator with Museum Without Walls, an educational non-profit which connects students with survivors of racial, ethnic, or religious prejudice, co-leading summer trips to Northern Ireland on the history of the Troubles and religious reconciliation. Her current writing and speaking focuses on spiritual disciplines in conversation with education and cognitive studies, and she blogs about contemplative living and prayer at the contemplativecottage.com.
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