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Endowed Chairs Recognize Seminary Faculty

²ÝݮӰÊÓ Theological Seminary (NPTS) deeply values endowed chairs, which support faculty teaching, research, and scholarship. In late October, following the approval of ²ÝݮӰÊÓ’s Board of Trustees, NPTS recognized two faculty members with chair appointments and renamed an existing chair to better reflect the seminary’s work.

Max J. Lee

Paul W. Brandel Chair of Biblical Studies

Lee is the Paul W. Brandel Chair of Biblical Studies and professor of New Testament at NPTS. He is the author of Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and his Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries with Mohr-Siebeck (2020) and editor of Practicing Intertextuality: Ancient Jewish and Greco Roman Exegetical Techniques in the New Testament with Cascade (2021). He currently co-chairs the Asian American Biblical Interpretation group at the Institute for Biblical Research. Ordained as a Baptist minister, Lee has served in pastoral ministry for more than 25 years and continues to preach and teach for several local congregations in Chicagoland.                                                                                                                

Michelle Dodson

Milton B. Engebretson Chair in Evangelism and Justice

Dodson is the assistant professor of ministry at ²ÝݮӰÊÓ Theological Seminary and the Milton B. Engebretson Chair in Evangelism and Justice. She also serves as the associate pastor of New Community Covenant Church-Bronzeville. Dedicated to the work of racial reconciliation for over two decades, Dodson helped to plant two intentionally multiracial churches: New Community Covenant Church-Logan Square and New Community Covenant Church Bronzeville. She received her MDiv from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, an MA in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a PhD in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago. She is also co-editor of Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy and Equality in the 21st Century.

Hauna Ondrey

Wilma E. Peterson Chair of Church History and Dean of Faculty

Ondrey is dean of faculty and associate professor of church history at ²ÝݮӰÊÓ Theological Seminary. She received her PhD from the University of St Andrews, specializing in the fourth and fifth centuries of Christianity. Her doctoral research on early Christian interpretation is published through Oxford University Press as The Minor Prophets as Christian Scriptures in the Commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria (2018). Ondrey has published seminal articles on the Evangelical Covenant Church in the critical decades of the 1960s–90s and has led Covenant history students in building an oral history collection currently holding more than 140 interviews.