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Meet our Contributors
Richard
L. Eslinger
Rev.
Richard Eslinger is Professor of Worship and Homiletics at United
Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He remains an adjunct professor of
preaching at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Cincinnati. The author of a
number of books on preaching, his most recent is The Web of Preaching:
Living Options in Homiletic Method which was published Autumn, 2002. A
United Methodist clergy, Dick is married to Elise Eslinger whose fields
are church music, worship, and spiritual formation. Elise serves as
Minister of Music at Westwood United Methodist Church in Cincinnati. They
have three young adult children and two beautiful grandchildren.
Jeffrey Kemper
Fr. Kemper is a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Associate
Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at Mount St. Mary's
Seminary - Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati. He is a member of the North
American Academy of Liturgy and chairs the Advisory Council of the Notre
Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy. He also is an adjunct professor of
liturgy in the Distance Learning Program of the Aquinas Institute in St.
Louis and a visiting professor for the summer sessions at St. John's
University, Collegeville. He has written for Assembly, Liturgical
Ministry, and The Topical Encyclopedia of Christian Worship. He is a
member of the Priests' Council and College of Consultors for the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and is involved in Project Rachel.
Fr. Kemper holds a B.A. in
English and an M.A. in Biblical Studies from the Athenaeum of Ohio, an
M.A. and a Ph.D. in Theology (Liturgical Studies) from the University of
Notre Dame.
He preaches and presides on weekends at Saint Columban Church in Loveland,
Ohio.
Tom Mannebach
Fr. Mannebach is a presbyter of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He grew up in metropolitan Chicago, and
attended Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He graduated in 1986 with a B.S.
in Business Administration. He worked in marketing and sales in
Cincinnati, Ohio for several years before entering the Athenaeum of Ohio
seminary division. He earned his M.Div. in 1999, the year of his priestly
ordination. He has since ministered in rural parishes in the archdiocese,
and now pastors at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, a Roman Catholic
community of 630 families located in New Bremen,
Ohio.
Susan Fleming
McGurgan
Dr. McGurgan is the
Director of the Lay Pastoral Ministry Program and Assistant Professor of
Pastoral Theology at the Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati. She holds
a degree in History from Oklahoma State University and completed three
years of graduate work in Ancient History and Classics at the University
of Cincinnati. She earned an M.A. in Religion from the Athenaeum of
Ohio and a Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching from Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary in Evanston, Il.
In addition to administrative duties, she teaches Church History in the
LPMP program and preaching classes in the permanent diaconate program and
the seminary. She is a member of the Catholic Association of
Teachers of Homiletics and the Academy of Homiletics.
Originally from Oklahoma, Dr. McGurgan's grandfather and uncle were
Methodist pastors noted for their preaching ability. She entered the
Catholic Church in 1990. She and her husband have three teenage boys.
James Schmitmeyer
From 1990-2000, Fr.
Schmitmeyer served as the pastor of two rural parishes in the northern
part of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, an area predominantly German and
French Catholic. Agriculture and small factories provide the primary
sources of income.
He currently serves as pastor of St. Michael Church, Ripley, Ohio and St.
George Church, Georgetown, Ohio.
Fr. Schmitmeyer served as Instructor in Homiletics and Director of Liturgy
at Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Cincinnati from 1985-1990. He holds a
degree in Scripture from the Athenaeum and degrees in Speech from Purdue
and Northwestern Universities. His articles have appeared in
numerous popular and professional publications and he is a regular
presenter at the Preaching Institute at the Athenaeum. He is the
author of The Words of Worship: Presiding and Preaching at the Rites
(Alba House, 1988). A second book, A Calendar of Care: Seasonal
Reflections of a Country Pastor was published by LTP in 1999.
Fr. Schmitmeyer's hobbies include breaking quarter horses and creative
writing.
David J. Shea
David J. Shea
is a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, at Immaculate
Heart of Mary Parish in Anderson, and the Instructor of Homiletics at the
Athenaeum of Ohio - Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. David joined the seminary
faculty in 2002 after a thirty year career in business where he held
various sales and marketing management positions. He holds a B.S. in
Industrial Management, an M.A. in Religion from the Athenaeum of Ohio, and
a
Doctor of Ministry in Preaching from
Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri.
Deacon Shea is a member of
the Catholic Association of Teachers of
Homiletics (CATH) and the Academy of Homiletics.
David has been married to Jan for 37 years. They have two adult
children—Jennifer and Jeremy—and one grandchild, Aidan, “the blessing of
their lives.”
P.
Del Staigers
Rev. P. Del Staigers, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati since
1987, for the past eight years has served as pastor of Our Lady of Mercy
Church, in Dayton, Ohio. For the past six years he has served as
pastor of Queen of Martyrs Church, in Dayton. Since July, 2007 he has also
pastored Corpus Christi Church in Dayton. The sharing of pastors, the
consolidation of schools, and the collaborative sharing of both pastoral
and administrative ministries has been part of the Dayton Catholic Urban
Presence process as demographics and personnel shifts within the Catholic
population. These neighboring parishes have a
combined registration of approximately 1,000 households, and are located
in a changing urban situation. Fr. Staigers served at the Athenaeum of
Ohio as Assistant Professor of Homiletics from 1991-2000.
He
is past President of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics (CATH),
where he continues to hold membership, as well as continuing membership
with the Academy of Homiletics. He holds a B.A. from the Pontifical
College Josephinum, an M.Div., and M.A. in Theology, from the Athenaeum,
an
M.A. in Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching, both from Aquinas
Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. He is co-founder of this
preaching web site.
Mary Ann Wiesemann-Mills,
O.P.
Sr. Wiesemann-Mills was an
elementary teacher for 20 years serving schools in Akron, Ohio and Denver,
Colorado. She received training as a retreat/director at the Jesuit
Renewal Center in Milford, Ohio and continues to serve as both a spiritual
director and retreat preacher as time allows.
Sr. Wiesemann-Mills holds a
Doctor of Ministry in Preaching from the Aquinas Institute (1997). She
served as a pastoral associate at St. Joseph Parish, Mantua, Ohio where she
regularly served in the ministry of preaching. She also served as the
vocation and formation director for her Dominican congregation.
Sr. Wiesemann-Mills is
Adjunct Professor of Homiletics at St. Mary Seminary, Cleveland, Ohio and
serves as Promoter of the Charism for the Sisters of St. Dominic of Akron,
Ohio. She also serves as a faculty member of the Aquinas Summer Preaching
Institute in Chicago.
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