Best Rachel Mann PhD Podcasts (2025)

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Joseph Tucker Edmonds: Silhouette Interview 27:59

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Joseph Tucker Edmonds, PhD is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Lakisha R. Lockhart: Silhouette Interview 23:43

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Lakisha R. Lockhart, PhD is Associate Professor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Angela D. Sims: Silhouette Interview 28:43

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Angela D. Sims, PhD is President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Christine Hong: Silhouette Interview 26:10

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Christine J. Hong, PhD is Associate Professor of Educational Ministry and Lead Professor of the DEdMin Program at Columbia Theological Seminary.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Mentoring: Tat-siong Benny Liew 27:14

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Tat-siong Benny Liew, Ph.D. is Professor, Class of 1956 Chair in New Testament Studies at Holy Cross College. In this rich and reflective conversation, Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield and Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew explore the complexities of mentoring within academic and theological contexts. They discuss mentoring as a relational, communal, and intergene…

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Ryan Bonfiglio: Silhouette Interview 34:24

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Ryan Bonfiglio, PhD. is Associate Professor in the Practice of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology and Executive Director of The Candler Foundry.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Donald Quist: Silhouette Interview 27:32

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Donald Quist is Assistant of English at the University of Missouri and Educational Design Manager at the Wabash Center. He is author of many articles, essays, and books including the literary tryptic To Those Bounded, For Other Ghosts, and Harbors.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Jesse D. Mann: Silhouette Interview 21:56

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Jesse D. Mann is Theological Librarian with Drew University.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Learning to Write, Better: Sophfronia Scott & Donald E. Quist 38:35

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Sophfronia Scott is Director of the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Alma College in Alma, MI and author a numerous books including Wild Beautiful and Free and The Seeker and the Monk. Donald Quist is Assistant of English at the University of Missouri and Educational Design Manager at the Wabash Center. He is author of many articles, ess…

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Eric Lewis Williams: Silhouette Interview 18:13

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Eric Lewis Williams, Ph.D. is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Why Teach Religion?: Eric Lewis Williams 25:36

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Eric Lewis Williams, Ph.D. is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. Williams quotes Zora Neale Hurston, "I was born with God in my house." Hear a scholar's story of having been raised in a Pentecostal household, mentored into the scholarship of religion w…

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Adam Bond: Silhouette Interview 20:42

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Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Igniting Imagination: Adam Bond 27:38

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Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University. Teaching to unlock new abilities to see. Imagining new futures, building new worlds, seeing new possibilities can be incorporated into our classrooms if teachers can unshackle their own creativity. Bond reflects on a recent Wabash cohort experience …

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Erika Robinson: A Passion for Lenormand, A Passion for Compassion 1:38:01

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Join me and my brilliant guest, Erika Robinson, author of "The Language of Lenormand" and the creator of "Erika's Lenormand of Hope". Erika and her colleague, Erica Peebus, designed this new and beautiful 36-card deck as a modern version of the old European tarot. Erika uses her deck for divination about and insight into current political, racial, …

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Sailaja V. Krishnamurti: Silhouette Interview 15:45

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Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Sabbatical Time: Sailaja V. Krishnamurti 21:43

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Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University. A sabbatical provides precious time but also points to exploitation, exhaustion, and rage. What is a generative sabbatical, especially when resisting dehumanizing patterns of productivity? What kinds of synergies are needed for …

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Ways to Survive Grind Culture: Sharon Higginbothan 31:24

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Sharon Higginbothan, PhD is the Founder and Principle of the Higginbothan and Associates LLC where they do coaching, group facilitation, and consultation. She is also Adjunct Professor of Liberation and Womanist Theology at Chatham University. For those who feel disillusioned by the professorate - even when having had accomplishments, for those who…

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Revealing Light on World Events with the Power of Tarot & Astrology with Maryann Weston 1:07:38

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Maryann Weston, former award-winning, Australian journalist, author, and YouTube psychic-astrologer shares her wisdom on the importance of staying spiritually awake as we stand up to oppression in all forms, and how to keep up hope and faith during these chaotic and dangerous times. She is a clairvoyant and psychic medium, who combines these gifts …

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Teaching as Curating Experience - Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green 28:43

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Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green are Associate Directors for the Wabash Center. If teaching is not about control, what approach is better? How do you create an environment for learning which takes into consideration the entire experience of the student? What is the prerequisite of learning for adult students? What does it mean to create an arc of le…

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Shatavia Wynn: Silhouette Interview 14:24

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Dr. Shatavia Wynn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Grind Culture - A Detriment: Sharon Higginbothan 34:25

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Sharon Higginbothan, PhD is the Founder and Principle of the Higginbothan and Associates LLC where they do coaching, group facilitation, and consultation. She is also Adjunct Professor of Liberation and Womanist Theology at Chatham University. When we work until we are physically, mentally, and spiritually sick we are participating in being exploit…

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The People Who Raised Me Formed My Teaching: Shatavia Wynn 24:28

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Dr. Shatavia Wynn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. Our communities form us, but effort (to say nothing of time and distance) may be required to understand how. Wynn's folks taught through care, deep listening and storytelling. Wynn discusses the realization of just how formative those relationships are to current teach…

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Valerie Miles-Tribble: Silhouette Interview 27:54

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Rev. Valerie Miles-Tribble, PhD DMin is Professor of Ministerial Leadership & Practical Theology at Berkeley School of Theology.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Anne Wimberly: Silhouette Interview 25:44

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Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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To Teach is to Learn 23:33

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Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green are Associate Directors for the Wabash Center. Pursuing one's curiosity, seeking adventure, being open to mystery and problem solving is the stuff of good teaching, even if structures of academia would disagree or discourage. Learning reminds us of our humanity. Students can be some of our best teachers.…

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Rachelle Green: Silhouette Interview 25:03

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Rachelle R. Green is an Associate Director for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and ReligionBy The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Embracing the Variety of Epistemologies: Rolf R. Nolasco 32:28

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Rolf R. Nolasco is the Rueben P. Job Professor of Spiritual Formation and Pastoral Theology and Director of the Rueben P. Job Institute for Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Since we are conditioned to believe that thinking is the best way of knowing, what would it mean to rethink what we consider to be knowledge? Wha…

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Yii-Jan Lin: Silhouette Interview 19:01

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Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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When Time is Teaching: Stephanie M. Crumpton 30:59

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Stephanie M. Crumpton is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Trauma Healing Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary. At what season in your career, if ever, did you make time for your own thoughts and curiosities? Who do we become over time and while teaching? What choices about our teaching are made easier with time?…

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Eric C. Smith: A Silhouette Interview 16:23

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Eric C. Smith is Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions and Co-Director of the Doctor in Ministry Program at Iliff School of Theology.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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When Reverse-Mentoring Happens: Anne Wimberly 23:36

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Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment. The relationship bonds between faculty and student can be long-lasting and mutually lifegiving. What happens when, i…

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Kelly Campbell: A Silhouette Interview 16:26

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Kelly Campbell is Associate Dean of Information Services and Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Challenges of Teaching Bible: Eric C. Smith 23:54

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Eric C. Smith is Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions and Co-Director of the Doctor of Ministry in Prophetic Leadership Program at Iliff School of Theology. What does it mean to create and sustain learner centered approaches for courses in Bible? When Bible courses are not neutral nor benign, but acknowledge a political dynam…

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Almeda Wright: A Silhouette Interview 16:55

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Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, adolescent spiritual development, and the interesections of religion and public life.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Questioning Sacred Texts - oh no!: Laura Carlson Hasler 22:42

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Laura Carlson Hasler is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies and Alvin H. Rosen Chair of Hebrew Bible at Indiana University. What are teaching strategies when the religious identity of students presents obstacles to learning in religious study courses? How do you teach academic inquiry when curiosity is considered antithetica…

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Librarians are Partners in Teaching: Kelly Campbell 18:30

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Kelly Campbell is Associate Dean of Information Services and Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary. A healthy ecology of teaching includes librarians and libraries. Libraries are magical nonjudgemental spaces. The responsibility of librarians for resourcing, teaching, and technology is invaluable and un…

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Teaching to Live - Almeda M. Wright 23:14

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Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, adolescent spiritual development, and the interesections of religion and public life. We discuss Wrights' latest book entitled, Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist Educators and Radical Social Change. The…

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Mindy McGarrah Sharp: Silhouette Interview 29:55

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Mindy McGarrah Sharp is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care as well as Lead Faculty in the Master of Arts in Practical Theology Program at Columbia Theological School.By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Disappointed! in Scholarly Job: Willie James Jennings 31:39

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Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. The disappointment is real! Early career colleagues report their disappointment after joining a faculty. Many excel during the doctoral program only to feel deflated, marginalized, or overlooked as a “junior” scholar. Many fe…

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Anti-Racism As Daily Practice: Jennifer Harvey 34:03

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The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Garrett Evangelical Seminary. The New York Times bestselling author discusses why her scholarship of religion focuses upon issues of race and anti-racism. She suggests that the work of translation, interpretation and meaning making (good teaching and good f…

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Administration - Not for Everyone: Willie James Jennings 30:16

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Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. Administrative duties are a work of care for the thriving of all in the community. Being a good administrator requires the ability to think organizationally, and the willingness to prioritize nurturing faculty, students, and …

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About Contract Faculty: Roger S. Nam 21:03

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Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. What are the constructive aspects of being contract faculty? If you spend your career as a contract faculty person have you failed as a scholar? How do you find your place on a faculty with tenure-track and tenure…

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Unchanged Demographics of Faculty 28:42

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Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature. Data show that the kinds of persons we bring into doctoral programs and hire onto faculty remain relatively unchanged. In what ways can directors of graduate divisions of religion attend to atrophying doctoral programs? What is the future of religious scholarship if…

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Studying the Institutional Ecology: Roger S. Nam 33:48

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Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. When at the dawn of your career, how do you learn the institutional power dynamics, the unspoken social and professional obligations, the ways conflict is resolved or left open? How do you acquire agency, get accu…

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Bible in the Public Square: Steed Davidson 27:46

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Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature. What does it mean to examen the influences of the bible upon contemporary society? In what ways can classrooms encourage understandings of the bible's complex roles in culture, now and into the future?By The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

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Coping with Professional Grief: Phillis Sheppard 30:37

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Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. Our careers will have disappointments, injustices, events which are unfair and, even shaming. How do w…

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Healing the Planet with Shamanic Energy Medicine with Christina Pratt, Shamanic Healer, Teacher and Founder of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing 55:22

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Rachel interviews author, shamanic healer and teacher, Christina Pratt, founder of the Last Mask Center about the importance of healing trauma, our ancestral lines, and the initation of our young into spiritual adulthood. She discusses how the resistance we feel both individually and collectively to undertaking the steep incline to what she calls s…

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Misperceptions About Administration - Roger S. Nam 25:01

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Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. What makes for mediocre, good, and exceptional administrators? Who should consider administration as an occupation, and who should remain on faculty? How do you balance the call for transparency in communication a…

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Administration as Vocation: Steed Davidson 26:00

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Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature. In what ways do faculty positions prepare you for administrative jobs? What kind of professional formation is needed to be an administrator? How important is your team to achieving an organizational vision? What if imagination is the best skill of an administrator?…

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Transitions in Life & Mental Health: Phillis Sheppard 28:15

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Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. Life is a series of transitions. Transitions of an academic career can leave one feeling overwhelmed, …