Dr. Tamisha Tyler Appointed to Full-Time Faculty Position

Dr. Tamisha Tyler, Louisville Institute postdoctoral fellow, has been appointed to a full-time teaching faculty position at Bethany Theological Seminary. She will begin her new position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Theopoetics, and

Ottoni-Wilhelm to Lead Academy of Homiletics

Dr. Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, Brightbill professor of preaching and worship, has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Homiletics and in 2026 will serve as President. The professional guild of more than

Hathaway Selected for Wabash Center Program

Dr. Joelle Hathaway, assistant professor of theological studies and director of the Master of Arts in Theopoetics and writing program, has been selected to participate in a workshop for early-career theology faculty at the Wabash Center for

Honing Her Voice

Kelsi Folsom has been a part of just about any kind of church experience you can imagine — from Episcopalian to Pentecostal. Rather than encouraging her to pick a single expression of faith, these divergent experiences have

The Evolution of Theopoetics

With new faculty members contributing to a burgeoning catalog of courses, it is no wonder that students from a wide variety of places, traditions, and backgrounds are finding their way to Bethany’s theopoetics program 

Theopoetics is

Finding His Path

Like many of our students, Nicky Gutierrez’s path to Seminary was paved by Google. During his final semester at Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), he was discerning his next steps when a search for “creative writing + religion”

An Exceptional Experience

Carl McRoy, of Maryland, originally learned about Bethany from a Google search about graduate programs related to social justice. After conversations with Bethany faculty and staff, he chose to enroll in the Master of Arts in Theopoetics

Seeking Stories

Alina Sayre Skujins, a California native now living in South Carolina, is a teacher and writer who was drawn to the “convergence of art and faith,” but she didn’t quite know at first how to weave her

Dr. Tamisha Tyler Named Bethany’s First Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Tamisha Tyler will join the faculty of Bethany Theological Seminary as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years.

Dr. Tyler earned a PhD in Theology and Culture from Fuller Seminary this year. She earned

New May Intensive Course Links Visual Art and Christian Life

Bethany is introducing a new May Intensive course that will explore the spiritual nature of Modern and Contemporary works of visual art — some explicitly Christian, some not — found both in secular art galleries and in the church. The