Dr. Carolyn Akua L. McCrary

Associate Professor, Pastoral Care and Counseling
-B.A., Bennett College
-M.Div., Interdenominational Theological Center
-Th.D., Interdenominational Theological Center

Dr. Carolyn McCrary has a special interest in pastoral care and violence against women, pastoral care and HIV/AIDS, and Womanist theology. She teaches courses in the psychology of religion and pastoral care. Her most significant publications include “A Response to Incarceration and Rehabilitation” in Black Men in Prison: The Response of the African American Church; “Interdependence As a Normative Value  in Pastoral Counseling with African Americans” in Recovery of Black Presence: An Interdisciplinary Exploration: Essays in Honor of Dr. Chares B. Copher,  Jacquelyn Grant and Randall Bailey, eds.; “The Wholeness of Women,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center; “African Children: Troubled but Not Destroyed” in Stories about Ethiopia: An African Holy Land; “Intimate Violence against Women and Internalized Shame: A Womanist Pastoral Counseling Perspective,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center;  “Teaching Pastoral Theology As Part of the M.Div. Curriculum”; and “Introduction: Personhood in African-American Pastoral Care,” co-authored with Edward Wimberly.

Office: Costen Bldg. 302
Phone: (404) 527-7738
E-mail: mccrarycal@hotmail.com
 

Dr. Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka

Henderson/E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism
-B.A., University of Zimbabwe
-M.Div., Duke University
-M.T.S., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
-Ph.D., Northwestern University

Dr. Tumani Nyajeka has a special interest in the history of religion, history of the mission of the church, gender studies, African studies and the history of the church and its mission. She teaches courses in congregational evangelism, biblical models of mission, and Christian evangelism and ethnotheology,  Her most significant publications include The Unwritten Text: The Indigenous African Christian Women’s Movement in Zimbabwe; “What Has Happened to Us? Conversing with Scholar Mercy Oduyoye on the Quest for Life” in Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry: Strengthening Urban Congregations in African American Communities; “African Women and Education: Vision, Myth, and Reality,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center; “Shona Women and the Mutupo Principle” in Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion and Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Vol. 2.

Office: Classroom Bldg 207
Phone: (404) 527-7753
E-mail: tnyajeka@itc.edu
 

Dr. Stephen C. Rasor

Director of D.Min Program/Professor, Sociology of Religion,
Area III
-B.A., Millsaps College
-M.Div., Candler School of Theology, Emory University
-Ph.D., Emory University

Dr. Stephen C. Rasor has an interest in Black congregational life. He teaches courses in the sociology of religion; religion, society, and social change; racism in the church and society; and church involvement in community life. His publications include but are not limited to Hidden Wholeness: An African American Spirituality for Individuals and Communities; The Mark of Zion: Congregational Life in the Black Churches and Black Power from the Pew: Laity Connecting Congregations and the Community; “African American Spirituality: Some Biblical and Historical Resources for Reflection.” Additionally, Dr. Rasor was the project director for the “Members Voice Project,” and Dr. Rasor and Dr. Dash were the project directors for “ITC/FaithFactor Project 2000: An Affirmation for the Journey Inward and Outward.”

Office: Classroom Bldg. 108
Phone: (404) 527-7765
E-mail: scrasor@itc.edu
 

Dr. Edward L. Smith

Associate Professor, Systematic Theology, Area II
-B.A, Washington State University
-M.A., University of California/Davis
-M.Div., Interdenominational Theological Center  
-Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Dr. Edward Smith’s disciplines are philosophy and theology.  He teaches courses on the doctrine of God, philosophy of religion, theologies of Paul Tillich and Karl Barth, and philosophical and theological views of humanity. His most significant publications and ongoing research interest include The Doctrines of Providence and Revelation; A Theology of Community Economic Development; Process and the Black Experience;  An Introduction to Process Philosophy and Theology; Prehension: ‘Postmodern’ Philosophy and Theology: The Relationship between Science, Religion, Technology, and Social Change; and “A Process Response to Akinsola Akiwowo’s Ajobi and Ajobe: Variations on the Theme of Sociation,” The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center.

Office: Classroom Bldg. 123
Phone: (404) 614-6355
E-mail: esmith@itc.edu
 

Dr. George Thompson

Dir. of Faith & the City/Associate Professor; Leadership & Ministry Practice, Area IV
-B.A., University of Puget Sound
-M.Div., Claremont School of Theology
-D.Min. Claremont School of Theology
-S.T.D., San Francisco Theological Seminary
-Ph.D., Chicago Theological Seminary

Dr. George Thompson has a special interest in religious and public leadership, congregation vitality, social science applications to religious communities and organizations, culture theory in religion and society, interdisciplinary studies and congregations and the Bible. His most significant publications include but are not limited to Alligators in the Swamp: Power, Leadership and Ministry; Treasures in Clay Jars: New Ways to Understand Your Church; How Get Along with Your Church: Creating Cultural Capital for Doing Ministry; Church on the Cutting Edge of Somewhere: Ministry, Marginality, and the Future; How to Get Along With your Pastor: Creating Partnership for Doing Ministry;  Leadership for Congregational Vitality: Paradigmatic Explorations into Organizational Cultural Theory; “Congregational Ministry As a Transformative Discipline”; and “The Emerging Tension between Self and Society, As Exemplified in Augustine.” 

Office: Costen Bldg 213
Phone: (404) 614-6326
E-mail: gthompson@itc.edu
 

Dr. Love Henry Whelchel

Professor of Church History, Area II
-A.B., Paine College
-M.Div., Boston University School of Theology
-M.A., New York University
-Ph.D., Duke University

Dr. Love Henry Whelchel teaches courses on the African-American religion and American religious traditions as well as history of Christian thought. He also has a special interest in the Civil Rights Movement. Some of his most significant publications include: Hell without Fire: Conversion in Slave Religion; My Chains Fell Off: William Wells Brown, Fugitive Abolitionist; How Long This Road: Race, Religion, and the Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln;  Shelter in the Time of a Storm: Sermons of Inspiration and Healing from the Book of Romans; and “History of the Black Church in America” in E Pluribus Unum: Challenges and Opportunities in Multicultural Ministry.

Office: Costen Bldg. 206  
Phone: (404) 527-7743
Email: hwhelchel@itc.edu
 

Dr. Edward P. Wimberly

       Vice President of Academic Affairs/Provost
       -B.A., University of Arizona
       -S.T.B., Boston University School of Theology
       -S.T.M., Boston University School of Theology
       -Ph.D., Boston University Graduate School  

Dr. Edward P. Wimberly teaches courses on pastoral care and counseling. His most significant publications include Winds of Promise: Building and Maintaining Strong Clergy Families (co-authored with Anne Wimberly); African American Pastoral Care: The Politics of Oppression and Empowerment; Counseling African American Marriages and Families; Moving from Shame to Self-worth: Preaching and Pastoral Care; Relational Refugees: Alienation and Reincorporation in African American Churches and Communities; Prayer in Pastoral Counseling: Suffering, Healing, and Discernment; Claiming God: Reclaiming Dignity—African American Pastoral Care; and “Exploring the Meaning and Possibilities of Black Fatherhood Today” in Multidimensional Ministry for Today’s Black Family.

Office: Costen Bldg. 214
       Phone: (404) 527-7704
       E-mail: epwimberly@itc.edu
 

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Joel Alvis

Adjunct Professor Presbyterian History, Area II
-Ph.D., Auburn University  
-M.Div., Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
-M.A., University of Mississippi
-B.A., Sanford University

Dr. Joel Alvis teaches Presbyterian History.  Dr. Alvis’s publications include: Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994).  “A Presbyterian Dilemma: Ecclesiastical and Social Racial Policy in the Twentieth Century Presbyterian Communion,” in The Diversity of Discipleship: The Presbyterians and Twentieth Century Christian Witness [The Presbyterian Presence Series]. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.

Phone:  678-591-8743
Email: elalvis@bellsouth.net
 

Dr. Mary Bellinger

- Adjunct Professor, Clinical Sexuality and Spirituality, Area IVM.
- Div., Andover Newton Theological School
- D.Min. Interdenominational Theological Seminary 

Dr. Mary Bellinger teaches Clinical Sexuality and Spirituality.  Her publications include: Dissertation; Sexuality and Spirituality in the Black Church: An Opportunity for Conversation, 2008.  One Day Meditations on Proverbs (Self Published), 2007.  Women of  Color Study Bible: Meditations on “Lot’s Wife: Why Look Back; Queen Vashti: A Woman of Strength”; “The Syrophoenician Woman: Persistence Pays Off”; “The Forgiven Adultress: Caught, But Not Condemned.” Iowa Falls: World Publishing, 1990.  Wisdom & Grace Bible for Young Women of Color, Iowa Falls: World Publishing, 1990.  Expressions…Volume One, (Self Publish) 1999.  Those Preachin’ Women:  Sermons By Black Women Preachers, Ella Pearson Mitchell, ed. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1985. “Upright But Not Uptight”, 69.

Office: Classroom Bldg Room 123
Phone: (404)527-7763
Email:  aryb@itc.edu
 

Dr. Harold V. Bennett

-Adjunct Professor, Area I
-B.S., North Carolina A&T State University
-M.Div., Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC),
 Atlanta, GA
-M.A., Vanderbilt University
-Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Dr. Bennett is the President-Dean of Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary and he teaches courses on the Old Testament..

Office Location: Costen Bldg. 111
E-mail: hbennett@itc.edu
 

Dr. Frances Bryant-Lowery joined ITC 17 years ago. She has a special interest in the research and teachings of “Foundations for Ministry” and spiritual formation. One of her most noteworthy publications is an article “Reviving the Spirit: Balancing Personal Growth and Professional Development,” NASAP Journal.

Office: Costen Bldg. 108
Phone: (404) 614-6337
E-mail: fblowery@itc.edu
 

Dr. Christine Chapman

Adjunct Professor, Sociology, Area III
-Ph.D. Union Institute & University
-M.Div.,  Interdenominational Theological Seminary
-B.A., Economics University of Michigan
 

Dr. Christine Chapman teaches Sociology of Religion; Urban Poverty: Sociological Issues and Public Policy; Social Enterprise; Sociology of Family; Community and Economic Development.  Dr. Chapman’s most significant publications are: Lack Power from the Pew: Laity Connecting Congregations and Communities, Pilgrim Press. Spring 2007.  Peeling Back the Layers of the Layers of an Onion: The Members Voice Project. The ITC Journal, Vol. XXXI Nos. 1&2 Spring 2006.  Congregational Development: Inside Connections Exploring worshipers’ activities within the faith community. ITC Continuing Education Module. Fall 2005.  Congregational Development: Outside Connections Building Social Capital. ITC Continuing Education Module. Fall 2005.  Charitable Choice, Separation of Church and State, and Devolution: Barriers or Obstacles for the Black Church, The ITC Journal, Vol. XXIX Nos. 1&2 Spring 2004.  The Shape of Zion: Leadership and Life in Black Churches, Pilgrim Press. March 2003.

Contact Phone Number: 7703308718
E-mail Address: cdchapman@itc.edu
 

Dr. Will Coleman

Adjunct Professor, Systematic Theology, Area II
B.A., Rhodes College
M.Div., Columbia Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union

Dr. Will Coleman is dedicated to researching and understanding of systematic and dogmatic theology, interpretation theory, the philosophy of religion, as well as African American religious history and spirituality. His most influential publication is Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics and African American Ways of “Telling the Story.”

Office: Classroom Bldg. 205
E-mail: coleman@itc.edu
 

Dr. Elaine Crawford

 Adjunct Professor, Systematic Theology, Area II
-B.A. Religion Grand Canyon University
-M. Div., Virginia Union School of Theology
-Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary

Dr. Elaine Crawford teaches Systematic Theology.  Her research interests are:  Systematic Theology, Womanist Theology, Ethics, Wesleyan Theology. Dr. Crawford publications include: 2002- Hope in the Holler: Introduction to a Womanist Theology of Hope, Westminster John Knox, Louisville, Kentucky.  2000 - “Identity Check: Job’s Daughters,” Commentary on Job, Women of Color Study Bible. NIA Publishing, Atlanta, GA.  “Those Preaching Women: Phillips Daughters,” Commentary on Acts. Women of Color Study Bible. NIA Publishing, Atlanta, GA.  1998- “Womanist Christology: Where Have you Come From and Where Are You Going” Review and Expositor, Summer 1998.

Phone: (404) 822-1671
Email: ecrawford@bellsouth.net
 

Dr. Willie Goodman Jr.

Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling/Chaplain
Area III
-A.B.A. Dekalb Community College
-B.B.A., Georgia State University
-M.Div., Interdenominational theological Center
-Th.D., Interdenominational Theological Center

Along with serving as the ITC Chaplain/Counselor, Dr. Willie Goodman Jr. serves as a part time faculty member teaching in the disciplines of pastoral care, psychology of religion and spirituality and sexuality. He has developed a method of in depth pastoral care and counseling that incorporates Black Theology of Liberation and Self Psychology with insights from Black cultural criticism. All of his work is framed within the construct for using insight from the perspective of men of African descent. One of his most accomplished publications is entitled Good-enough Mentoring: A Model of Black Pastoral Counseling for the Black Pastoral Counselor Working with African American Men.

Office: Costen Bldg 301
Phone: (404) 527-5735
E-mail: goodmanwillieitc@yahoo.com
 

Dr. Anthony Granberry

-Adjunct Professor, Pastoral Theology, Area III
-B.S., Morehouse College
-M.S., University of Georgia
-M.A., University of Georgia
-M.T.S., Emory University
-Th.D., Emory University

Dr. Anthony Granberry has a special interest in pastoral theology and psychology, addiction abuse and the church, as well as mental health issues and the church. He is currently preparing his dissertation for publication: A Conceptual Model of Pastoral Counseling: Object Relations and the Embodiment of Core Christians Beliefs.

Phone: 404-527-7704
E-mail: agranberry@itc.edu
 

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