In Faithful to the Call, Dr. Carla Sunberg brings together a group of scholars, pastors, and ministry leaders who expertly make the Wesleyan case for women in ministry.
Biblical and historical records show that women have been involved in ministerial leadership alongside men from the earliest days. In Faithful to the Call, Dr. Carla Sunberg brings together a group of scholars, pastors, and ministry leaders who expertly make the Wesleyan case for women in ministry. From the Old Testament to the New, from the days of John Wesley to the founding days of the Church of the Nazarene, and all the way up to today, women have been integral in carrying out the mission of God and discipling others to do the same. The authors and chapters in this book offer ample historical, biblical, theological, and practical evidence for why women, like men, should be Faithful to the Call when God gifts us and then invites us to participate in God’s grand story.
Faithful to the Call contributors include: Rev. Dr. Nina Gunter, Rev. Dr. Carla D. Sunberg, Rev. Dr. Diane Leclerc, Rev. Dr. Jacob Lett, Rev. Dr. Svetlana Khobnya, Rev. Dr. C. Jeanne Orjala Serrão, Rev. Dr. Sarah Coleson Derck, Rev. Selena Freeman, Rev. Phumzile Phago, Rev. Cara Shonamon, Rev. Dr. Tammy Carter, and Rev. Dr. David Downs.
Dr. Carla Sunberg is a historical theologian with a passion for holiness. She serves as a general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene and was previously the president of Nazarene Theological Seminary. Sunberg has published several books with multiple publishers. Some of the most recent titles available from The Foundry Publishing include Teach Us to Pray, Color (with Daniel Gomis), Faithful to the Call, and Pulling Back the Curtain on the Former Soviet Union (with R. Franklin Cook).
NINA G. GUNTER is a general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene, where she utilizes the leadership skills learned through her former roles as a teacher, counselor, preacher, and pastor, to name a few. Dr. Gunter graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University and earned a master's degree from the University of South Carolina. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Moody.
Diane Cunningham Leclerc, PhD, is a professor at Northwest Nazarene University, where she also serves as director of the Graduate School of Theology. She has written numerous articles and several books, including Discovering Christian Holiness: The Heart of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology and most recently co-authoring The Back Side of the Cross: An Atonement Theology for the Abused and Abandoned. Leclerc has been the lead pastor of two congregations and has been associate pastor at Nampa College Church of the Nazarene for several years. She is a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society and a participant in the Dialogue on Race and Faith—a funded, multi-year project of racially diverse theologians and historians.
DR. C JEANNE ORJALA SERRÃO is professor of biblical literature at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where she has taught since 1999. She began her teaching career in Büsingen, Germany, at European Nazarene College. Dr. Serrão is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and pastored at Highland Ave. Community Church in Alta Loma, California, for twelve years. Serrão also wrote the New Beacon Bible Commentary on James and the Shaped by Scripture volume on James.
SARAH B. C. DERCK is associate professor of Old Testament at Houghton College and is ordained in the Church of the Nazarene. She has earned degrees in biblical studies from Indiana Wesleyan University, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and Nazarene Theological College/University of Manchester in England.
