Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Lecturer in Pastoral Theology and Director of Pastoral Studies Department, lecturer in Pastoral Theology, guest lecturer in New Testament, College of St. John the Evangelist, Auckland, New Zealand. Member seminary of Auckland Consortium for Theological Education, serving New Zealand and the South Pacific, and affiliated with the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Additional responsibilities as chair of the consortium's Department of Moral and Practical Theology, and chair of the consortium's Academic Board and Post-Graduate Studies Committee. 1992 - present.

Lecturer, Social and Cultural Issues in Psychotherapy, Masters in Psychotherapy, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland. Teaching a full-year weekly course to approximately 45 students who are in their initial stage of training to be mental health workers or psychotherapists. 1999 - present.

Private practice in psychotherapy. Applicant member, New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. 1997 - present.

Psychology E-structor, "Smarthinking.com." On-line real-time tutor in Psychology, for a Washington D. C. based website designed to provide tutorial support for American college students. Fifteen hours per week. 2000.

Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Full-time teaching responsibilities in an Episcopal seminary of 80 M. Div. students, in the field of Theory and Practice of Ministry. 1985 - 1992.

Interim Vicar, Christ Episcopal Church, Tracy City, Tenn. Small mission in rural struggling coal-mining town. 1985-1987.

Rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Oberlin, Ohio. 1976-1985.

Graduate Studies, IIE (Fulbright) Fellow at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Also associate priest, St. George's Anglican Cathedral; associate editor, Immanuel: A Scholarly Journal on Interfaith Relations. 1974-76.

Associate Rector, Holy Trinity Church, New York City. 1970-1974.

Education

1992 John M. Allin Fellow, World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, Switzerland

Ph. D. 1977 New York University, Religious Education and Jewish Studies.

1974-76 IIE (Fulbright) Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

M. Div. 1970 General Theological Seminary, NYC.

B. Mus. 1966 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Auckland University Courses 1998/2000, and other Educational Responsibilities

Awhi Whanau: A Cultural Approach to Pastoral Theology (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Understanding Oneself and Others (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Cross-Cultural Issues in Pastoral Ministry (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Pastoral Care and Gender Issues (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Human Relationships in Pastoral Care (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Human Development and Pastoral Care (2 credit hours at Bachelor's level)
Counseling and Spirituality (4 credit hours at Masters level)
Interpersonal Issues in Pastoral Theology (4 credit hours at Masters level)

Supervised nine senior research essays:

A Theology of Passion for Celibate Men
The Social Construction of Masculinity in Vanuatu
Homosexuality and Tongan Methodism
The Battered and the Battering: A pastoral response to domestic abuse from an Indo-Fijian perspective
Articulating an Indigenous Spirituality for New Zealand Males
Metaphor and Symbolism in Counseling Pacific Islanders
The Pastoral Care of Tongan Women who have been Raped
Christian Approaches to Treating Alcoholism
The Tongan Minister's Wife as a Socially-Constructed Object

Supervising sixteen Masters theses completed or in progress:

Concepts of Discipleship in Matthew and their relation to Tongan strategies of evangelism
The myth of Eros and Psyche as a paradigm for women's spiritual journey
Feminist Biblical Exegesis, Paulo Friere, and Samoan Women in the Church
Male Christian Counselors and the Psychology of Forgiveness
Stages of Faith Development among Women who have Left the Church
Positioning Theory and the Virtue of Christian Hospitality
Narratives of Change: A Study of the Autobiographies of three ministers who became professional counselors
A Theology of Liberation for Youth Ministries in Aotearoa New Zealand
Sacred Moments in the Counseling Room
The Hierarchy of Voice in the Samoan Church
The Psychology and Pastoral Care of Indo-Fijian Male Batterers
Indigenous Models of Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand
The Pedagogic Relationship in the Training of Psychotherapists: Boundaries, Narcissism, and Multiple Relationships
An alternative story: the female body as a site of resistance
Psychological Interventions with Samoan Children who have been Sexually Abused

Supervising six Ph.D. theses in completed or in progress:

Palliative Care Nursing and the Spiritual Process of Dying
The Implied Theology of Social Justice and Pastoral Care among the Sisters of Mercy in New Zealand
Models of Ministry in the Past and Future of the Samoan Church
Melanesian Theologies of Death and the Afterlife
Chaplaincy in the New Zealand Armed Forces: Does it have a future?
The Theology of Self-Sacrifice in Tongan Methodism.

St. John's Theological College Chair, Department of Moral and Practical Theology (1995-2000)
Director of Pastoral Studies sub-Department (1993- )
Auckland Consortium for Theological Education Academic Board (1995-2000); chair (1996 - 1999)
ACTE Certificates and Diplomas Committee (chair, 1998-1999)
ACTE Post Graduate Studies Committee (1995-2000); chair (1998-1999)
ACTE Senate (1996-2000)
ACTE Appointments Committee (1998-1999)
Joint Board for Theological Studies, University of Auckland (1996-1999)
Faculty liaison for students from the Diocese of Auckland
Associate Organist, the chapel of St. Johns' College (1993- )
Various faculty committee responsibilities
Second examiner for various Auckland University, Otago University, and Melbourne College of Divinity papers
Spiritual director for selected students
Professional clinical supervisor for selected Auckland clergy
Faculty representative, Churches Youth Ministry Association (1998- )

Additional Professional Commitments

Associate Book Review Editor in Pastoral Studies, Anglican Theological Review (1998- ).
Contributing editor, Textual Reasoning: The Journal of PostModern Jewish Philosophy (1997- ).
Curriculum Consultant, Sia'atoutai Methodist Theological College, Tonga (1997 - )
Editor-in-Chief, New Zealand Directory of Counselling and Psychotherapy (1998-1999).
Editor-in-Chief, GM Resource and Referral Directory for Mental Health Services (1999- ).
Featured contributor in exegetical resources, Australian Ministry Digest (1995 - )
Visiting Lecturer in Narrative Psychology, Programme in Continuing Education, Waikato University, Hamilton (1997).

Community-wide Commitmentss

Treasurer, Board of Directors, The NZ Quilt Project (1998-1999) Planning Committee and Host, New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists Auckland branch annual conference, 1997, 1998, 1999. Planning Committee, New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists national annual meeting, 1998.