Rev. Eileen Campbell-Reed, Ph.D.
Hello and welcome. This is a space I began making in 2009. I try to make it a place that informs, inspires, articulates, and accompanies. I keep it free from ads and distractions so people might be able to learn and explore without the constant demands to consume or buy or be entertained. I hope instead when you visit, you might explore, wonder, and reflect. Across these years, I’ve been living my vocation as a minister and professor, a researcher and author, a mentor and coach. This is a space where I love to preview projects that I am creating. And it is also a place where I share my writing and research insights with people who are seeking to be understood and seen in their own vocations.
I grew up in a moderate enclave of Southern Baptist life in East Tennessee. I attended a Baptist college and seminary. When I tried on chaplaincy, I discovered I belong in a congregation. My home church ordained in a time when Baptists were fighting each other over whether women should be ordained. I spent my years of schooling in a crucible of conflict. Seeking to be the subject in my own story, not an object or issue over which men argued, liberated me to follow the deeper wisdom of the Spirit. My roots are Baptist; however, my wings keep taking me to new landscapes.
Learn more about my work and research
- Research Associate Professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. Read about the latest grants from the Louisville Institute and the Collegeville Institute to support the revision and expansion of the State of Clergy Report.
- Founder and host of Three Minute Ministry Mentor, a weekly video, blog and podcast providing resources that inform and inspire the practice of ministry and nurture pastoral imagination
- Founder and host of The Writing Table, a live, virtual, daily writing group for pastors, professors, and authors. You can join me weekdays throughout the year with a membership, and free every Friday.
- Co-director of the Learning Pastoral Imagination Project, a national, ecumenical, and longitudinal study of ministry following 50 pastors and ministers since 2009
- Doctor of Philosophy in Religion, Psychology and Culture, Vanderbilt University.
- Author of these books and reports:
- “The Learning Pastoral Imagination Project: A 10-Year Overview” (Reflective Practice, 2023)
- The #Pandemic Pastoring Report (2022) details how ministers and congregations are living in a new era of ministry (Pre-order the Study Guide for talking through these changes)
- Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life (Fortress, 2021)
- State of Clergywomen in the U.S. (2018)
- Anatomy of a Schism: How Clergywomen’s Narratives Reinterpret the Fracturing of the SBC (UT Press, 2016)
- LPI Five Year Report (2016)
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Having read your “State of Women in Baptist Life” reports before, I was delighted to hear your voice on the conference call with BWIM this morning. A quick search led me to your blog, which I enjoyed perusing. I am especially interested in your forthcoming book. Any chance you’ll be at the CBF in June (or anywhere soon) sharing about this endeavor? Thanks!
My husband and I were greatly influenced by Nell Magee during our college and early ministry years. We were trying to see if there were any chance she was still living, but I think not. Your description of her is what we remember.