Planning Committee Members

Lesa Breeding (Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Texas Tech University) is Dean of the College of Education and Human Services and Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Division, Abilene Christian University. She was a reviewer for Professional Concerns, TEJAS: Texas Journal of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology; refereed journal articles (2); professional papers (7); professional video (10; manuals (3) and invited professional presentations (20).
John Hawthorne is Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California. He is author of Christian Academic Community: A Sociological View of the Christian College, Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Finding the Unique Effect of Supplemental Course Instruction (Educational Reference Information Center, 1991). Presentation Faith, Living and Learning, at Church of God Theological Administrators and Educators Forum, Fritzlar, Germany; The Ontology of Faith and Learning at Critical Concerns in Christian Higher Education conference, Seattle, Washington, 2003.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is Senior Fellow in the Ernest L. Boyer Center and Distinguished Professor of Religion at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. He is author of The Vocation of a Christian Scholar; How Christian Faith Can Sustain The Life of the Mind (Eerdmans 2005) Myths America Lives By (Illinois 2003), Christian America and The Kingdom of God (Illinois 2009), and, with William Adrian, edited Models for Christian Higher Education (Eerdmans 1997).
Doug Jacobsen Douglas Jacobsen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. He is co-author of Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation (Oxford University Press, 2004) and co-editor of The American University in a Postsecular Age (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Rhonda Jacobsen

Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen (Ed.D., Temple University) is Professor of Psychology and Director of Faculty Development at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. She is co-author of Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation (Oxford University Press, 2004) and co-editor of The American University in a Postsecular Age (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Bruce Webb is Professor of Economics, Director of the Christianity, Character and Culture first-year seminar program, and Core Curriculum Coordinator at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. After leading the Gordon faculty in three years of Core Curriculum review and plans for revision, he now leads the implementation of the new core curriculum.