Mary Moschella is a member of the Bethesda United Church of Christ and has been in full pastoral standing in the UCC since 1984. She pastored in UCC churches in Massachusetts for 13 years prior to answering the call to teach and to write. She also studied and practiced clinical pastoral counseling at the Christian Counseling Service in Redlands, California, from 1998-2000, before coming to Wesley in 2001. An interest in American social history undergirds her approach to pastoral theology and care. Her current projects include:
- “Living Devotions: Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Religious Imagination”
- A textbook on ethnography as a pastoral theological strategy for transformation in congregations and communities.
Courses Taught:
- Introductions to Pastoral Care and Counseling
- Ethnography as Pastoral Listening
- Psychology of Religion
- Pastoral Perspectives on Ministry with Couples and Families
- Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology
- Pastoral Perspectives on Mental Illness and Substance Abuse.
Education:
- Harvard Divinity School, M.Div.
- Claremont School of Theology-Program for Theology and Human Personality, Ph.D.
Publications:
- “What is a Family?” in The Wesley Seminary On-line Discipleship Bible Study, week 27, July 20, 2003. http://wesleysem.edu/sid/disciple/27.htm.
- Book Review of A Loving Home: Caring for African American Marriages and Families, Lee Butler, Jr. (Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2000), in The Journal of Pastoral Theology 13, no. 1, Spring 2003: 109-111.
- “Food, Faith, and Formation: A Case Study on the Use of Ethnography in Pastoral Theology and Care,” The Journal of Pastoral Theology 12, no. 1, Spring 2002: 75-87.
- Dissertation: “Mary Star of the Sea: The Interplay of Immigration and Religion in Italian Catholic Devotional Practices in the Port of Los Angeles.” Claremont School of Theology, May 2001.
- “Introduction” and “Back Doors and Other Openings,” in Women Pastors, Ed. Allison Stokes (New York: Crossroad, 1995).
- “New Things I Now Declare,” in From Flicker to Flame: Women’s Sermons for the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A Volume 1, ed. Carole Ann Camp (South Deerfield, MA: Ash Grove Press, 1995).
