John Dreibelbis teaches the theology and practice of ministry at Seabury. He serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Policy. He holds a master of divinity degree from Seabury and a Ph.D. in theology and the social sciences from the University of Chicago. As a priest John has served parishes in Chicago and South Dakota. As an academic, he has served on the staff of the Human Resources Center of the University of Chicago and later as faculty and director for the same university’s Management Development Seminars. Since arriving at Seabury in 1994, John has recast the entire sequence of ministry courses Students now identify learning objectives and professional goals, revising them as they are met, and the courses themselves emphasize awareness of cultural variances, leadership requirements, and the emerging field of congregational studies. John has received a major grant from the Lilly Endowment for research in the way ministry practitioners think. He also intends to make this a focus of upcoming workshops and field education programs.

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Horace Griffin teaches Pastoral Theology, directs the Chicago Collegiate Seminarians Program and is the Associate Dean for External Relations at Seabury. While his teaching and research in the field of pastoral care and counseling are diverse, Horace is especially trained in the area of race, sexuality and gender issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from Morehouse College, a master of divinity degree from Boston University, a master of arts degree from Vanderbilt University and the Ph.D. in Religion and Personality from Vanderbilt University. Horace is a 1992 Andrew Mellon Fellow and the author of several scholarly articles. A number of his current research interests are reflected in an essay, “Their Own Received Them Not: African-American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches,” which will appear in The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in African American Communities in Spring 2001. Horace previously taught in the Department of Religious and Philosophical Studies at Fisk University in Nashville, TN and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

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Rosemary D. Gooden is the lecturer in Modern Church and Mission. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's Program in American Culture, where she specialized in American religious and social history and the history of American women. She previously taught in the history departments of DePaul University and Texas A&M University. She was the Co-Chair of the American Academy of Religion's Steering Committee of the Afro-American Religious History Group, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section. She recently edited and wrote a critical introduction for Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer by Mrs. Edward Mix (2002). She has also served as a consultant for two films, Growing Up Communally, and The Winter Shakers.

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Meredith Woods Potter is a Lecturer in Congregational Studies and the Director of Extension for the Seabury Institute. She has served as Director of Academic Affairs for the seminary, as a parish priest, and as a leader in Asian-American ministries.

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