Faculty & Staff

Members of the GST faculty provide rich resources in academic and spiritual leadership. Faculty members bring to their teaching specialization in languages, history, missions, and ministry. Their articles and books have appeared in numerous international academic publications.

Our faculty members serve as ministers, elders and deacons in local churches, and they provide leadership for the churches through seminars and popular publications. They are involved in ministry among churches all over the world. Many also serve as consultants to churches and other ministries. They are in frequent demand for workshops, seminars and lectureships.

Full-time Faculty:

• Fred Aquino
• Brady Bryce
• Jeff Childers
• Ken Cukrowski
• Chris Flanders
• Doug Foster
• Mark Hamilton
• Jonathan Huddleston
• Jack Reese
• Carson Reed
• Tim Sensing
• James Thompson
• Melinda Thompson

Others Offering Instruction:

• Christopher Hutson, Abilene Christian University
• Kent Smith, Abilene Christian University
• Craig Churchill, Abilene Christian University
• Samjung Kang-Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
• Rodney Ashlock, Abilene Christian University
• Dyron Daughrity, Pepperdine University
• Glenn Pemberton, Abilene Christian University
• Curt Niccum, Abilene Christian University
• David Fleer, Lipscomb University
• Virgil Fry
• Earl Lavender, Lipscomb University
• Jared Looney
• Daniel Rodriguez, Pepperdine University
• Mark Shipp, Austin Graduate School of Theology
• Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University
• John York, Lipscomb University
• Houston Heflin, Abilene Christian University

During the past year, our full-time faculty members have made significant strides in their chosen endeavors.  They travel widely, speak at churches, universities, and conferences, and serve in congregations.  Here are a few of their most significant achievements this year.

Fred Aquino, Professor of Theology, will publish this spring his book An Integrative Habit of Mind: John Henry Newman on the Path to Wisdom (Northern Illinois University Press), and he has published essays in two books: The Philokalia: A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality (Oxford University Press) and The Spiritual Senses (Cambridge University Press).  He also continues to minister at the Tye Church of Christ. 

Jeff Childers, Professor of Church History, spent 2011 on sabbatical, finishing his four-volume critical edition and translation of the sermons of John Chrysostom preserved in Syriac.  He will speak in April at a symposium launching a new Syriac Studies department in the western Turkish city of Mardin.   He remains very active at the Highland Church of Christ and speaks widely at other churches.

Ken Cukrowski, Professor of New Testament, is acting dean of the College of Biblical Studies

Chris Flanders, Associate Professor of Missions, published About Face: Rethinking Face for 21st-Century Mission (Pickwick).  He serves as director of the Halbert Institute for Missions at ACU and consults widely for churches and missionary teams. 

Doug Foster, Professor of Church History, is completing the global history of the Stone-Campbell Movement, as well as directing the Center for Restoration Studies. 

Mark Hamilton continues to serve as Associate Dean.  In addition to his church work as an elder at University Church of Christ, he published translations of, and commentaries on, Psalms 16-17, 19-23 in Mark Shipp, ed., Timeless: Ancient Psalms for Today’s Church (ACU Press), the annotated bibliography on kingship in Oxford Bibliographies Online, and articles in the Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture and Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization.  He spoke at congregations in Amarillo and Fort Worth in the fall.