Articles by Eileen Campbell-Reed, Academic Entrepreneur

Author: Eileen Campbell-Reed

I am an academic entrepreneur. I’ve spent my adult life understanding my work as a bridge that connects church and academy, spirituality and practice, personal faith and a public theology, prayer and the practice of justice. After more than five years in pastoral ministry and over a decade of teaching in seminaries and divinity schools, I am embracing my purpose more fully as a public practical theologian, collaborative advocate, mentor, coach and researcher working both in and beyond the confines of traditional institutions.

October 14, 2019October 14, 20193MMM Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2018-19 Ordinary Time 2019 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 46: Knowledge Use

When I was in college and seminary, I took a lot of tests. I made really good grades on most of them. I memorized dates, names, cities, battles, theorems, species, genus, phylum, periodic tables, chemical compounds, and rules of grammar…

October 7, 2019October 7, 20193MMM Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2018-19 Ordinary Time 2019 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 45: Navigating Conflict

Conflict in ministry is hard. It is hard because it often feels personal. It is hard because it can evoke feelings like anger, self-doubt, fear or shame, feelings that are unpleasant to digest. And it is hard because change of…

September 30, 2019September 30, 20193MMM Keeper of the Fire - Year C 2018-19 Ordinary Time 2019 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 44: Defining Moments

“Oh man, she thinks I’m a minister!” Martha had this startling thought while talking with Linda, the newly elected chair of deacons at FBC Benson. The church started out as a place where Martha could meet her field education requirement for seminary.…