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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.
Fr. Kemper is a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the pastor of St. John the Baptist in Harrison, Ohio. Fr. Kemper served on the faculty of The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary for 17 years as Director of Liturgy, Associate Professor of Sacramental Theology, Dean of the Seminary and Academic Dean. He served as 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. Fr. Kemper has been a member of the Priests' Council and College of Consultors for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and is involved in Project Rachel. He has written for Assembly, Liturgical Ministry, and The Topical Encyclopedia of Christian Worship. 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.
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. 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.
David J. Shea David J. Shea is a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Anderson, and was ordained in September 1998. He is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics at the Athenaeum of Ohio - Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. 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. David joined the seminary faculty in 2002 after a thirty year career in business where he held various sales and marketing management positions. He is a member of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics (CATH) and the Academy of Homiletics. David has been married to Jan for 40 years. They have two adult children—Jennifer and Jeremy—and two grandchildren, Aidan and Liam, which David describes as “the blessings 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.
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