Nadine Pence Frantz is appointed full professor of theological studies at Bethany.

Nadine Pence Frantz will give a public lecture in celebration of her appointment as full professor of theological studies at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind. The lecture will take place 7:30 p.m. Mar. 26 on the topic "Figuring the Sacred in Art and Text."

Frantz joined the faculty of Bethany in 1992 after teaching at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno, Calif. She is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren and has served as pastor of two congregations.

She holds a master of divinity degree from Bethany and a doctorate in theology from the University of Chicago, and has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and the Louisville Institute. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. Frantz is editing a forthcoming book from Pilgrim Press entitled "Hope Deferred: Theological Reflections on Reproductive Loss."

Source: Newsline 3/19/2004 top