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Job Details
Level: Experienced
Job Location: Earlham College School of Religion - Richmond, IN
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: Graduate Degree
Job Category: Faculty
Earlham School of Religion (ESR), is a seminary in the Quaker tradition; located in Richmond, Indiana, a small city that's just a short drive away from several major metropolitan areas including Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago.
Earlham School of Religion is hiring an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Director of Contextual Education.
Job Summary:
Earlham School of Religion (ESR) seeks candidates for a full-time teaching faculty appointment in pastoral ministry and contextual ministry education, field education and supervised ministry. The appointment begins July 1, 2025, but could start earlier if available.
ESR is a Christian Quaker seminary of the Religious Society of Friends, with roughly half of the student body and multiple faculty coming from other traditions. ESR also works in partnership with Bethany Theological Seminary, a school of similar size serving the Church of the Brethren, another historic peace church.
Teaching responsibilities include courses in pastoral ministry and leadership such as preaching, administration, bivocational ministry, congregational life, and public theology. This position is also responsible for administrative oversight of the contextual ministry education program, including teaching the associated year-long supervised ministry course. ESR's contextual placements include traditional congregational sites as well as chaplaincy, non-traditional writing projects, nonprofit leadership, and more. We are interested in candidates who are thinking creatively about the shape of the church and the pastorate in a changing religious landscape.
Additional responsibilities will be adjusted to fit the strengths of the successful applicant. Responsibilities could include teaching a formational core course or another required course in the curriculum.
Candidates will work with the faculty and the dean to develop appropriate responsibilities of program administration and teaching. Workload will include participation in faculty meeting, committee work, and academic advising. Courses will take several forms: 1) traditional, blended or residential, semester-long; 2) online (synchronous or asynchronous); and 3) 2-week intensives.
Qualifications
Benefits Working at Earlham:
*All employee benefit offerings are subject to employee eligibility per plan documents.
The deadline for applications for this position is January 1, 2025.
To Apply:
Earlham School of Religion / Earlham College is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse community, one that reflects the makeup of society at large and that particularly welcomes and supports individuals from groups that have been historically marginalized because of factors such as race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, and physical ability. The College strongly encourages applications from women and people of color. As an institution with a Quaker identity, the College also solicits applications from members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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