SFTS Faculty
The people you will meet through the links below are an extraordinary crowd. Among them, you will find powerful preachers, creative scholars, gifted writers and effective practitioners in the arts of ministry. Not only are they interesting, talented, thoughtful, scholarly and dedicated individuals, but in the aggregate they provide extraordinary access to theological education. They personify the SFTS commitment to spiritual formation, critical theological reflection, and the skills and arts of ministry for serving in congregations, the wider church, the classroom, and the public sphere.


Elizabeth Liebert
Dean of the Seminary and Vice President for Academic Affairs



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SFTS Faculty
Name Title Phone & Email
Childers, Jana Professor of Homiletics and Speech Communication 415.451.2859  
Coote, Mary (Polly) Associate Dean, Registrar
Associate Professor of Biblical Greek
415.451.2853  
Garrett-Cobbina, Laurie Shaw Family Chair for Clinical Pastoral Education 415.451.2889  
Hamilton-Poore, Sam Director, Program in Christian Spirituality and Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality 415.451.2816  
Hoggatt, Daniel Professor of Church Music 415.451.2887  
Liebert, Elizabeth Dean of the Seminary
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Spiritual Life
415.451.2880  
Love, Gregory Associate Professor of Systematic Theology 415.451.2869  
McDonald, James President of the Seminary
Professor of Faith and Public Life
415.451.2810  
Noel, James H. Eugene Farlough, Jr. Professor of African American Christianity
Professor of American Religion
415.451.2888  
Ocker, Christopher Professor of Church History 415.451.2876  
Park, Eugene Eung-Chun Dana and Dave Dornsife Professor of New Testament 415.451.2881  
Robb, Carol Margaret Dollar Professor of Christian Social Ethics 415.451.2870  
Schellenberg, Annette Associate Professor of Old Testament 415.451.2896  
Sullender, R. Scott Associate Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Interim Director of Advanced Pastoral Studies
415.451.2867  
Tomlinson, David Professor of Ministry, Emeritus 626.298.5274  
Weissenrieder, Annette Associate Professor of New Testament 415.451.2828  


SFTS Research Professors
Name Title Phone & Email
Coote, Robert Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament 415.451.2860  
Rambo, Lewis Research Professor of Psychology and Religion 415.847.2662  
Siker, Judy Research Professor 415.451.2860  

 
 
 

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