Transforming Service
Reflections of Student Services Professionals in Theological Education
Edited by Dr. Shonda R. Jones and Pamela R. Lightsey
Afterword by Frank M. Yamada
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Shonda R. Jones is Senior Associate Dean and Assistant Teaching Professor in Intercultural Theological Education at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. She provides strategic leadership in student affairs in graduate theological education, having established best practices in recruitment and admissions, promoting diversity and inclusion, and engaging student learning through courses and co-curricular programming.
Pamela Lightsey is Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological School. She is a scholar, social justice activist, and veteran. She is author of the book Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology (Pickwick, 2015) and contributor to several recently published volumes.
“Helping students thrive, flourish, and become their best possible selves is soul work. Nurturing their souls—that is, the intellectual, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual core of people—is, by definition, ministry especially in graduate theological education. That’s the focus of this book designed to minister to those of us called to service in theological schools and seminaries across the country. Read and be transformed today!”
—Terrell L. Strayhorn, LeMoyne-Owen College
“To our peril, we often do not think of student affairs until something goes wrong institutionally or interpersonally or individually in our schools. This fine collection reminds us that the work of student affairs must be integrated in all that we do in theological education. There is much to learn from these authors.”
—Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University Divinity School