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E. Morris and Leone Sider The Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist and Wesleyan Studies is named for professor emeritus E. Morris and Leone Sider, in honor of their faithful and continuing service to Messiah College and the Brethren in Christ Church.Professor Sider's teaching career has spanned five decades in a variety of educational settings. In the late 1940s, he taught elementary school in Ontario; in the 1950s, he served as principal at Niagara Christian College; and in 1963, he joined the history faculty of Messiah College. Since completing his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966, he has authored or edited over twenty books and has contributed chapters to a dozen others (see Publications of E. Morris Sider). In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Morris has served the Brethren in Christ denomination in numerous ways, most notably as the church's archivist (1979–2000). He has also served on various denominational boards and committees, including the Board of Administration and the Board for Ministry and Doctrine. He was the Assistant Moderator for the Brethren in Christ General Conference during the 1986–88 biennium and, more recently, was the Assistant Moderator for the Susquehanna Conference of the Brethren in Christ Church. Leone has been a capable partner in this work of education and ministry. During their years in Canada, she was both a teacher and a dean of students at Niagara Christian College. After their move to the States, she served as the dietician at Messiah College. At the Grantham Brethren in Christ Church she has been a Pioneer Club leader, and has served many years on the church's Peace and Social Justice Committee and its Hunger Task Force. She is much beloved in the community as a person who offers her time, energy and compassion to those in need of care. In April 2002, a festschrift honoring the scholarly work of E. Morris Sider was released by Pandora Press, U.S. Entitled Minding the Church: Scholarship in the Anabaptist Tradition, the festschrift contains essays by 14 scholars representing fourteen different academic disciplines. Publications of E. Morris Sider Essays in honor of E. Morris Sider |
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