by Lynette Sumpter, Dean of Academics and Director of The Center

This year I’m teaching a religion elective called “Psychology and Religion.”   The focus of the course is to examine religion through the lens of psychology, prompting deep thinking about religious phenomena and experiences. My primary work in graduate school was exploring the relationship between psychology and religion, and I found my graduate years of study extremely rewarding.  What was most powerful was finishing graduate school with even more questions necessitating a life-long learner approach to engaging these questions!  (more…)