Our professors are distinguished scholars, active researchers, published writers, and faithful Christians who demonstrate what it means to be both Christ-followers and leaders in their academic fields. As mentors and role models, they play a huge role in the integration of faith and learning at Bethel.
Justin Irving
Program Director and Professor | j-irving@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2000
Research interests
Leadership Studies; Servant Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Cross-Cultural Leadership; Organizational Change; Ministry Leadership; Purpose in Leadership; Leadership Assessment; Research Methodology and Design; Spiritual and Personal Formation for Leaders
Denise Muir Kjesbo
Lead Faculty and Professor | denise-kjesbo@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2000
Teaching Specialty
Children's and Family Ministry - I am committed to equipping leaders to serve in ministries with children and youth as the crucial mission field of our time - both in the States and around the world. I am passionate about partnering with parents in the spiritual formation of their children and. . . read more.
Karen Quek
Program Director and Associate Professor | karen-quek@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2016
Research interests
Gender construction in couples' relationship · International couples relational dynamic · Cultural competency in clinical supervision · Development of the self of the therapist ·Family and couples processes
Kenneth A. Reynhout
Lead Faculty | reyken@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2014
Research interests
systematic theology, theology and science, continental philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics
Tina Watson Wiens
Program Director and Assistant Professor | tina-wiens@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2013
Leith Anderson
Faculty | Leith.Anderson@wooddale.org | Started at Bethel: 2010
Areas of expertise
Pastoring, teaching, writing, speaking, and leadership.
Jeannine Brown
Professor of New Testament | j-brown@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2000
Research interests
Dr. Brown has focused much of her research and writing on the Gospels and on hermeneutics. In addition to a book on biblical hermeneutics, she has published two commentaries on Matthew's Gospel and is currently co-writing a third. Brown has also co-written on interdisciplinary topics, such as C. . . read more.
Rod Casey
Instructor in Preaching | rlc28355@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2005
Research interests
I love to consider the intersection of a robust theology, a contextualized audience, and best practices of communication. My doctoral project involved the application of Christian education methods into standard evangelical homiletic practice. Simply put, moving the sermon beyond the lecture fo. . . read more.
Howard Cassidy-Moffatt
Adjunct Faculty | hoc45784@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2011
Teaching Specialty
The Theology and Practice of Christian Ministry.
Norah Caudill
Faculty Associate of Old Testament | n-caudill@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2008
Teaching Specialty
Hebrew, Hebrew Exegesis, Old Testament
Minoa Chang
Faculty Associate | m-chang@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2002
Areas of expertise
Psychotherapy: chronic mental illness; grief/bereavement; spiritual/religious issues; cultural/acculturation issues. Clinical supervision: clinicians working with children, adults, families and group therapy; serving clients with mental illness and survivors of trauma; with a special interest. . . read more.
David Clark
Vice President and Dean and Faculty | d-clark@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1988
Teaching Specialty
Dr. Clark's academic discipline is philosophy of religion. He has special interests in epistemology, the problem of evil, religious ethics, and the relation of theology to science. In addition to philosophy of religion, he has taught systematic theology and apologetics. His approach emphasizes . . . read more.
Paul Ferris
Professor | pferris@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1998
Teaching Specialty
Content and exegesis of the First Testament and biblical languages
Anne-Marie Finsaas
Adjunct Professor | afinsaas@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2007
Areas of expertise
Faith formation in children and adults; the role of suffering in faith formation; ministry to families; cross-cultural teaching
Douglas Fombelle
Faculty | d-fombelle@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2003
Teaching Specialty
Doctor of Ministry
Katie Friesen Smith
Faculty, Thesis Advisor | smikatj@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2008
Teaching Specialty
Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Direction, Leadership, Congregational Systems, Communication, Educational Ministry, Women in Ministry, Team Development, Conflict and Change
Daniel M. Gurtner
Adjunct Faculty | dgurtner@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2005
Areas of expertise
New Testament
Tim Henderson
Adjunct Instructor of Biblical Studies | timothy-henderson@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2006
Areas of expertise
New Testament and early Christianity
David Howard
Professor | dhoward@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1982-1990, 2000-present.
Teaching Specialty
Old Testament, Hebrew, and Hermeneutics
Joel Jueckstock
Adjunct Professor of Spiritual and Personal Formation and Professor | juejoe@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2009
Areas of expertise
practical theology; pastoral care and counseling; personal and spiritual formation; grief, loss and transition; chaplaincy; leadership; bioethics.
Peter Kapsner
Teaching Partner in Theological Studies | kappet@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2002
Areas of expertise
New Testament. Church history and engagement with culture. Leadership in ministry. Human sexuality. Spiritual formation.
John Koester
Adjunct Instructor | jmk53845@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2015
Areas of expertise
Systemic individual, couple, and family therapy, with particular interest in the development within a system, the development of individuals within those systems, and how growth and change may happen within those relationships
Ben K Lim
Professor | b-lim@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2002
Areas of expertise
Marriage and Family Therapy
Shane Long
Adjunct Instructor | shane-long@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2008
Areas of expertise
Family systems, differentiation of self, narrative and constructivist approaches in therapy, socio-economic and cultural issues in therapy, and integration of religion and spirituality in the field of psychotherapy.
Diana Magnuson
Director of Archives, The History Center | d-magnuson@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1994
Areas of expertise
Magnuson’s primary fields are the United States Census of Population and the history of women in America. She’s also the Director of the History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide.
Mark McCloskey
Lead Faculty and Professor | m-mccloskey@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1998
Areas of expertise
Biblical theology of leadership, leadership formation, organizational leadership development, team building, virtue-based leadership, strategic planning
Kim Meyer
Adjunct in Marriage and Family Studies | k-meyer@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1997
Areas of expertise
Dr. Meyer has been teaching since 1989 in nursing theory, fundamentals of nursing, ethics, psychiatric mental health nursing in the undergraduate program; theory and nurse educator courses in the graduate program and psychopathology in the marriage and family therapy program at Bethel Seminary.. . . read more.
Deb Moncauskas
Professor | debra-moncauskas@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2004
Teaching Specialty
Dr. Deb Moncauskas is an Adjunct Professor at Bethel Seminary, teaching since 2004 in the Master of Arts degree program in Children and Family Ministry. Her areas of focus are leadership and staff development, generational distinctives and ministry administration. She earned her D.Min in 2012. . . . read more.
David Nah
Associate Professor | d-nah@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2006
Teaching Specialty
Systematic Theology, Christian Social Ethics, Theology in Global Context, Theology of Religions, World Religions
Lyn Nixon
Adjunct Faculty | nixlyn@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2009
Teaching Specialty
Greek, Hermeneutics, New Testament, Biblical Theology, The Use of the OT in the NT
Sandra Oslund
Library Director, Bethel Seminary St. Paul | s-oslund@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2003
Areas of expertise
As director of the St. Paul seminary library, I collaborate with teaching faculty and lead the library staff in fulfilling the seminary’s educational mission.
Andrew Rowell
Instructor and Professor | a-rowell@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2013
Research interests
Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lesslie Newbigin, Eugene Peterson, church planting, church consulting, megachurches, trends in theological education, business management, the quantitative study of congregations in sociology, models of practical theology, the history of pastoral ministry, pasto. . . read more.
Andrew Russell
Adjunct Assistant Professor of General Studies | andrew-russell@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2013
Research interests
The Keswick Movement, Religious Practices, the Modern Missionary Movement, the East African Revival, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards
John Sanders
Faculty | sandersjohng@gmail.com | Started at Bethel: 2000
Areas of expertise
Ministry and writing
Mary Sanders
Faculty Associate | Mary-sanders@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2004
Areas of expertise
Spiritual and Personal Formation and Marriage and Family Therapy.
Glen Scorgie
Professor of Theology | g-scorgie@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1996
Areas of expertise
Systematic theology, historical theology, spiritual theology and ethics.
Timothy Senapatiratne
Faculty | t-senapatiratne@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2001
Research interests
Currently, I have focused my research on three separate, but interrelated areas. First, I have focused my research on the Hebrew Bible with a special emphasis on Wisdom Literature. I am particularly interested in how Biblical Wisdom Literature borrows from other wisdom traditions within the A. . . read more.
James D. Smith III
Professor | jds31@cox.net | Started at Bethel: 1988
Areas of expertise
Church History; Historical Theology; Christian biography; Spiritual life & ministry; History of Missions; Women in the Christian Tradition; Henri Nouwen; baseball history
Scott Strand
Adjunct Faculty | scott-strand@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2011
Areas of expertise
Personal Formation, Spiritual Formation, Spiritual Direction
Mark Strauss
University Professor of New Testament | m-strauss@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1993
Areas of expertise
New Testament, Greek, Bible Translation, and Hermeneutics