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 Courtney Wilder
Title: Assistant Professor of Religion
Education: B.A. in Philosophy and Classics, University of Montana; M.A. in Religion, Ph.D. in Theology, University of Chicago
Courses or Duties: Religion and Philosophy courses; Coordinator of Youth and Family Ministry
Why are you serving as a First Year Adviser and what are you looking forward to from this experience?
I'm excited to meet new students and to help introduce them to the Midland community.
Why do you teach/work at MLC?
I love being a Lutheran theologian at an ELCA school.
Why should a high school student attend MLC?
Midland offers great opportunities for intellectual and spiritual growth in a tight-knit and supportive community.
Family: Husband, Mike; daughter, Grace; son, Peter
Pets: A kitty, Penelope, after the wife of Odysseus
Hobbies: Running (planning a marathon) and gardening
Books: "Gaudy Night," "Being and Time," "A Widow for One Year"
Recent Publications: “Reading Martin Luther King as a Tillichian: The Courage to Be and I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, forthcoming.
“Tillich as Preacher,” Sharing the Practice, Official Journal of the Academy of Parish Clergy; edited by Dr. Robert Cornwall. Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 2007, p. 8-10, 15.
“Workers in the Kingdom,” Sightings, a publication of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, May 10, 2007
Expanded version of “Workers in the Kingdom,” Sharing the Practice, Volume 30, No. 2 Summer 2007, p. 14-15
“The Path to Harmony,” Sightings, August 12, 2004
“Rainbow Communion,” Sightings, June 10, 2004
Most memorable moment in education: Reading Paul Tillich's "Systematic Theology" for the first time.
Favorite movie: "Dogma"
Television series: "Life"
Favorite quote: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Favorite Bible verse: John 1:1
Favorite writers: Anne Lamott, Barbara Kingslover and Dorothy Sayers
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