换妻社区

Dr. Andy McCoy joined 换妻社区 in 2012 and currently serves as associate professor of ministry studies and director of the Center for Ministry Studies. He leads the studies in ministry minor program and oversees other student programs including Emmaus Scholars, Lilly Scholars, CrossRoads Scholars and Pre-Seminary Society. He also serves as co-director for the Continuum Scholars Faculty Development Program.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Dr. McCoy鈥檚 scholarly interests include Christian worship and spiritual formation, contemporary culture and interdisciplinary research on the relationship between Christian faith and science.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., theology, University of St. Andrews, 2009
• M.Div., theology, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, 2004
• M.A. counseling, Western Seminary, 2002
• B.M., vocal performance, Belmont University, 1997

Grants & AWARDS

• Executive director of The inVocation Project, a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, 鈥淐alled to Lives of Meaning and Purpose Initiative,鈥� awarded to 换妻社区 in 2017. This grant develops innovative projects and shared learning on vocation and calling in Christian congregations throughout West Michigan.
• Nyenhuis Convergent Scholars Grant, 换妻社区, summer 2016 for student-faculty interdisciplinary research in theology and economics.

Select PUBLIcations

• 鈥淲orship,鈥� in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, edited by Mark A. Lamport, et al., Rowman & Littlefield, 2018
• 鈥淎n Irenaean Approach to Original Sin Through Christ鈥檚 Redemption,鈥� in Finding Ourselves After Darwin: Conversations on the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil, edited by Stanley P. Rosenberg, Baker Academic, 2018
• 鈥淪alvation (Not Yet?) Materialized: The Possibilities and Potential Problems of Expressing Suffering in Global Pentecostal Music and Worship,鈥� in The Spirit of Praise: Music & Worship in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity, Amos Yong and Monique Ingalls, editors, Penn State University Press, 2015
• 鈥淧utting Christian Congregational Song on the Geographer鈥檚 Map,鈥� co-authored with John D. Witvliet, in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices, and Politics, vol. 4, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Springer Publishing, 2015

Select Presentations

• 鈥淐all-Forwarding: Programming Vocation as a Receptive Ecumenical Alternative to Faculty Confusion and Conflict over Faith,鈥� co-presented with Jonathan Hagood, Lilly Fellows Regional Conference, Georgetown University, Georgetown, Kentucky, January 2016
• 鈥淧erfecting Incarnation: Considering Evolution and the Time of Redemption in Christ,鈥� Reimaging the Intersection of Evolution and the Fall, The Colossian Forum, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, March 2015
• 鈥淭he Last Temptation of Marty: Faith and Excess in the Scorsese Oeuvre,鈥� Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, October 2014
• 鈥淭he Possibilities and Complexities of Expressing Suffering in Global Pentecostal Music and Worship,鈥� Christian Congregational Music Conference, Ripon College, Oxford, UK, August 2013