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.

September 21, 2020October 12, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 84: Why Music Matters

In our last Episode 83, Pete and I talked about why ministers need to study culture. He gave us two reasons: People come to seminary shaped and formed by culture innately — largely unawares. Reflexivity is that significance of learning…

September 14, 2020October 12, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 83: Why Culture Matters

The first time I met Pete Ward in person we had a theological argument. We also had drinks and some laughs in a mutual friend’s living room. As I recall, Mary McClintock Fulkerson and I might have teamed up against…

September 7, 2020November 10, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 82: Ethical Wills

Chaplaincy Jennifer Hundley Batts Thomas sat down with me in the late spring to talk about ethical wills. She helped me to share with my students in the Death, Dying, and Bereavement course at Union Theological Seminary about the significance…

August 30, 2020October 12, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 81: Beyond the Walls

This week we are sharing our final conversation with Rev. Alisha Smith Haddock. What a joy to speak with her this month about her calling to do justice work and her many collaborations to rebuild North Nashville after the March…

August 24, 2020September 22, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 80: Called to Collaboration

This week we are going deeper into our conversation with Rev. Alisha Smith Haddock. She is helping us see how multiple factors are impacting the community of North Nashville. Back in March, Nashville was hit hard by tornados that ripped…

August 17, 2020September 22, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 79: Called to Justice

“I knew early on I was called to this work.” -Rev. Alisha Smith Haddock Called to ministry Vocational calling comes in all different sizes, shapes and forms. Traditional congregational ministry, in spite of what people think, is not the only…

August 12, 2020August 20, 2020Writing by Eileen Campbell-Reed

A Prayer for Teachers

From preschool to grad school, this time of year is usually punctuated by joyous pictures of students and teachers returning to classrooms. But this year is a strange one. Not like any other. And so we offer this prayer for…

August 9, 2020November 2, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 78: Grief Rituals

LOn Sunday afternoon I hosted a conversation on Zoom with friends from my childhood church. Together we were remembering one of our friends, a fellow youth group member, who died earlier this summer. It was good to be with each…

August 3, 2020September 16, 20203MMM 3MMM Year Two Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2019-20 Ordinary Time 2020 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

3MMM | Episode 77: Risking Care

This summer has been one of the hardest on record. What a gift to have the wisdom, insights, and pastoral presence of Rev. Dr. Stephanie Crumpton to guide and inspire us! This week, Dr. Crumpton, who is associate professor at …

Rev. Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed

I am an academic entrepreneur, public practical theologian, seminary professor, theological ethnographer, and the founder/host of Three Minute Ministry Mentor. My work bridges church and academy, spirituality and practice, personal faith and public theology, prayer and practices of justice. Nashville is home. My vocational joy comes through engaging in sacred, redeeming, and liberating work that includes teaching, mentoring, coaching, writing and research. Let’s see how we can work together!

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