Sam has an extensive applied background that includes over 25 years of banking industry experience and he served as the C.E.O. of a publicly held financial holding company. Sam conducts courses in general business, economics, finance, management, human resources, financial institutions and planning.

Dennis served as Chairman of the Executive Officers Committee and Chief Financial Officer for Eagle Point Software; Business Consultant for DG Associates; Budget Analyst for Ertl Company; Finance Manager for Dubuque Data Services; and Commercial Credit Officer for American Trust and Savings Bank. Dennis conducts courses in accounting and finance.

Janet served as Senior Accountant for American Express Tax and Business Services; Manager for Levis & Hullman CPA's; Manager for Rea & Associates CPA's; Accountant for Katz Baltimore & Company; and Accounting Manager for Irving B. Moore Company. Janet conducts courses in financial and managerial accounting, auditing, and applied accounting research.

Eric's research interests are in the general sphere of bio-business. More specifically, he is actively investigating issues relating to organ donors and the allocation of organs in all economic levels of society. He received the Dean’s Teaching Award and was voted the Outstanding Graduate Instructor while completing his doctorate at Purdue University. Eric conducts courses in economics and techniques used in knowledge management.

Education:

Ph.D. Rhetoric., 1994, University of Washington, WA

M.A., Speech Comm., 1990, University of Washington, WA

Master of Divinity, 1979, Fuller Theological Seminary, CA

Bachelor of Arts, 1976, California State University, Fullerton, CA

Teaching Experience:

University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa. Assistant Professor, 2000- present.

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Lecturer, 1995-2000.

St. Martin’s College, Lacey, Washington. Senior Lecturer, 1996-2000.

Fuller Theological Seminary, Seattle. Adjunct Associate Professor, 1997-2000.

Seattle-Pacific University. Adjunct Faculty, 1994-95.

Courses Taught:

At the University of Dubuque:

Undergraduate: Senior Seminar; Advanced Argument; Interpersonal Communication; Mass Communication; Public Speaking
Graduate: Organizational Communication

At the University of Washington:

American Public Address; Contemporary Public Address; Public Speaking

At St. Martin’s College:

Interpersonal Communication and Public Speaking

At Fuller Theological Seminary, Seattle:

Graduate: Homiletics; Preaching Practicum; and Public Speaking for Religious Settings.

At Seattle-Pacific University:

Public Speaking; Interpersonal Communication; The Media and the Public; and Organizational Communication.

Previous Professional Experience:

Pastoral Ministry:

Senior Pastor, Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA, Sept. 1985- April 1988

Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Prosser, WA, Aug. 1979- Sept. 1985

Ordained to the Christian Ministry, ABC/USA, March 31, 1980


Interim Senior Pastorates:

Firgrove Community Baptist Church, Puyallup, WA, Feb. 1992- May 1993

First Baptist Church of Olympia, WA, Dec. 1990- July 1991

Grace Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA, April 1988- July 1989

(Note: interim positions occurred while in pursuit of graduate education from 1988-94)

Publications:

Books:

Preaching Mark. Nashville: St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1999.

Co-authored with Lucy Lind Hogan. Connecting With the Congregation: Preaching and the Art of Rhetoric. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

Juried Publications:

"On Preaching Fictive Argument: A Reader-Response Look at a Lukan Parable and 3 Sayings on Discipleship.” In Press: Restoration Quarterly.

“Faithful Preaching: Faith Stages, Preaching Strategies, and Rhetorical Practice.” The Journal of Communication and Religion 21.2 (1998): 164-99.

“Hermagoras’ Theory of Prose Oikonomia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric: Disputed & Neglected Texts in the History of Rhetoric. 1 (1997): 9-24.

“‘Neither Oratory Nor Dialogue’: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Genre of Plato’s Apology.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (Fall, 1997): 63-90.

“Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Theory of Compositional Style and the Theory of Literate Consciousness.” Rhetoric Review 15 (1996): 46-64.

“Postmodernism and the Function of the New Homiletic in Post-Christendom Congregations.” Homiletic 20 (Winter/1995): 1-13.

Jointly authored: Robert S. Reid, Jeffrey Bullock, and David Fleer. “Preaching as the Creation of an Experience: The Not-So-Rational Revolution of the New Homiletics.” The Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol. 18.1 (1995): 1-9.

“When Words Were a Power Loosed: Audience Expectation and Finished Narrative Technique in the Gospel of Mark.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994): 427-47.

Other Publications:

An essay “Introduction” to the privately reissued version of The Renewal of Preaching” by David James Randolph. New York: Hanging Gardens Press, October, 1998. Currently under consideration for reissue.

“Commentary, Context, and an Approach to the Sermon: Mk. 6:14-29,” Word & Witness: A Lectionary Resource, Proper for July 13, 1997, Year B, Vol. 97:3 (New Berlin, WI: Liturgical Publications, Inc., 1997).

“Commentary, Context, and an Approach to the Sermon: Luke 6:17-26,” Word & Witness: A Lectionary Resource, Epiphany 6 for February 15, 1998, Year C, Vol. 98:2 (New Berlin, WI: Liturgical Publications, Inc., 1998).

“Does Santa Belong in the Church? Rediscovering the Feast Day of Nicholas of Myra” Discovering Christmas: A Treasury of Useful Resources for Churches and Families, Jeron Ashford Frame, ed. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1998. This article was originally published in The Baptist Leader, Vol. 49. N. 7 (1987) 20-22. It was also reprinted in Programs for Advent and Christmas, Vol. III, Elizabeth Wright Gale, ed. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1989.

Book Reviews:

Andre LaCocque and Paul Ricoeur, Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies. In press: Homiletic.

L. L. Welborn, Politics and Rhetoric in the Corinthian Episteles. In Southern Speech Communication Journal (In press).

Harvey Yunis, Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens. In Philosophy and Rhetoric 32.2 (1999): 191-95.

Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 80 (1994): 126-28. Excerpted by the publishers for inclusion with the book in second printing.

David Cunningham, Faithful Persuasion: In Aid of a Rhetoric of Christian Theology in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79 (1993): 491-93.

Lecturships:

“On Homiletics and Rhetoric,” Louisville Theological Semianry, Louisville, KY. January 29-Feb 2, 2001

Convention Papers/Panels:

“The Dionysian Theory of taxis and the “Artistic Management” of Luke’s” Presented in the Luke-Acts Seminar of the American Academy of Religion-Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Nov. 2000, Nashville, TN

“Paul’s Use of Ad Herennium Argument Structures in Ist Corinthians.” Presented at the National Communication Association meeting, Nov, 2000., Seattle, Washington

“On Preaching Fictive Argument: A Reader-Response Look at a Lukan Parable and 3 Sayings on Discipleship.” Included in the 1999 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Denver, CO, Dec. 2-4, 1999.

“Speaking Truth: A Typology for the critique of Contemporary Religious Discourse.” Included in the 1998 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Academy of Homiletics, Toronto, CA., Dec. 4-6, 1998.

“Faithful Preaching: Connecting Faith Stages with Preaching Strategies.” Included in the 1997 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Academy of Homiletics, San Francisco, CA., Dec. 4-6, 1997.

“Paul Ricoeur and the Task of a Postmodern Homiletic: Preaching for a ‘The Truth is Out There’ Culture.” Included in the 1996 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Academy of Homiletics, Santa Fe, NM, Dec., 1996. Discussed in the Hermeneutics and Rhetoric Working Group, Lucy Hogan, chair.

“Hermagoras’ Theory of Prose Oikonomia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus.” Panel participant in the American Society for the History of Rhetoric PreConference, San Diego, Speech Communication Association Convention, November, 1996.

“Neither Oratory Nor Dialogue”: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Genre of Plato’s Apology” San Diego: Speech Communication Association Convention, November, 1996; Jan Swearington/Jean Goodwin, chair.

“Beyond the Old Rationalism: Learning from the New Theologies of Preaching.” Invited panel presentation, San Diego: Speech Communication Association Convention, Nov. 1996.

“The Power of Preaching Fictive Argument: Rhetorical Criticism and Gospel Narratives.” Included in the 1995 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Academy of Homiletics, Atlanta, GA, Dec., 1995. Discussed in the Hermeneutics and Rhetoric Working Group, Robert S. Reid, chair.

“What ‘The Ear Craves to Hear’: Dionysius and the Refiguring of the Isocratean Tradition.” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Top Paper Panel: Reconsidering the Rhetorical Tradition. Molly Wertheimer, chair. San Antonio: Speech Communication Association Convention, 1995.

“Shall the Fundamentalists Win? —Fosdick, Falwell, and the Ideology of Legitimating Myths.” San Antonio: Speech Communication Association Convention, November, 1995; Mark Gring, chair.

“The Polished Style and the Expectation of Parallelism in Finished Narratives in Antiquity,” Included in the 1993 Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Homiletics, Academy of Homiletics, Washington, D. C.: Washington Theological Consortium, December, 1993. Presented and discussed in the Hermeneutics and Rhetoric Working Group, Jeff Kisner, chair.

“The Rehabilitation of Phronesis: MacIntyre’s Project, Newman’s Grammar, and the Recovery of Tradition.” Panel: Contemporary Applications of John Henry Newman’s Rhetorical Thought. Chicago: Speech Communication Association Convention, November, 1992. John Angus Campbell, chair.

Academic Honors:

1995 Dissertation of the Year Award, American Society for the History of Rhetoric; an affiliate organization of the Speech Communication Association.

First Place, graduate student division, 1993 Phi Alpha Theta Student Paper Conference, University of Washington; Paper: “‘Some Habit of Narrative Paradox or Conjunction’,-- The Expectation of Parallelism in Finished Narratives in Antiquity.”"