Our Faculty
Jason Carthen
Education: M.A., Malone University; Certification in Business Management, Harvard Business School; Ph.D., Regent University
Experience: Carthen serves as the president and CEO of Redeemed Management & Consulting LLC. He has worked for 18 years in both the public and private sectors of leadership and business management, specifically with the National Football League’s Players Association and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Carthen also founded The Leaders of Tomorrow Initiative in 2008, which focuses on equipping the next generation of society’s leaders for life’s possibilities.
J. Robert Clinton
Education: Ph.D.
Experience: Clinton is president and founder of the J. Robert Clinton Institute and is the author of The Making of a Leader, in which he sets forth his revolutionary concept of leadership emergence and formation theory. Clinton is one of the leading theorists on Christian leadership formation in the world today.
Mark G. Harden
Program Director, M.A. in Community Ministry Leadership
Dean of Intercultural Relations
m-harden@bethel.edu
Education: B.G.S., Oakland University; M.A., Marygrove College; M.A., Northern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Michigan State University
Experience: Harden is a licensed and ordained minister. His passion for transformational ministry has led him to specialize in community and project development, violence prevention, positive youth development, and other intervention strategies for improving conditions among children, youth, and families in the urban church context. Harden has received service awards as a law enforcement officer, an associate minister, and a community outreach leader. He has assisted over a hundred urban churches in developing youth outreach programs; organized Streetwise Inc. in Detroit; and while working for World Vision as a Church Mobilization Coordinator, organized an urban-based collaboration of churches and mission agencies call Detroit Love, Inc.
Justin Irving
Lead Faculty, M.A. in Transformational Leadership
j-irving@bethel.edu
Education: B.A., Northwestern College; M.Div., Bethel Seminary; Ph.D., Regent University
Experience: Irving has served as a worship leader and a pastor of leadership development and outreach in the local church. Irving has focused his writing and research on servant leadership, team leadership in the global context, self-sacrificial leadership, and the relationship between servant leadership and the effectiveness of teams in diverse ethno-linguistic communities.
Website: www.irvingresources.com
Lisa Johanon
Education: Marshall Law School, Moody Bible Institute
Experience: Johanon is co-founder of the Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation where she coordinates and implements educational programs, employment training, and economic development. Before that, she directed the urban outreach division of Detroit Youth for Christ, and helped plant churches in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects. Johanon also serves as treasurer and director of Compassion and Justice at Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit.
Doug Magnuson
Education: M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., Brown University
Experience: Since 1983, Manguson has lived in North Africa and the Middle East. He teaches various courses in anthropology, intercultural studies, and Muslim-Christian relations.
Jeff Matteson
Education: M.A., Castleton State College; M.Div., Northeastern Seminary; Ph.D., Regent University
Experience: Matteson has over 20 years of experience as a youth minister, teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent of schools in Vermont and New York state. His research interests include self-sacrificial, servant, and authentic leadership.
James C. Perkins
Education: D.Min., United Theological Seminary
Experience: Perkins is pastor of Greater Christ Baptist Church in Detroit where he has served since 1983. Perkins is author of Building Up Zion’s Walls: Ministry for Empowering the African American Family; and Playbook for Christian Manhood: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys. He also founded the Fellowship Nonprofit Housing Corporation and the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy for K-6th grade boys.
Kyle Roberts
Program Director, M.A. in Christian Thought
kroberts@bethel.edu
Education: B.A., Wheaton College; M.Div. Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Biblical and Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Experience: In addition to teaching, Roberts has served as a youth minister. His main research interests include the function of the Bible in the religious philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, the question of divine providence in the problem of evil and suffering, and the place of Christian eschatology in popular culture.
Wilbur P. Stone
Program Director, M.A. in Global and Contextual Studies
w-stone@bethel.edu
Education: B.A., Indiana University; M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
Experience: Stone comes from a varied career as a businessman, youth pastor, senior pastor, and missionary in Hong Kong and Malaysia, spending 12 years overseas and 15 years in pastoral ministry. Besides teaching, Stone works to create partnerships with Converge Worldwide and other denominations and missions agencies to help build and expand the seminary’s missions program.
Terry Walling
Education: D.Min.
Experience: Walling is the author of Stuck! Navigating Life and Leadership Transition. He is a leadership development speaker, trainer and coach, and is the founder and CEO of Leader Breakthru. Walling also served as a senior leader with Church Resource Ministries (CRM) in southern California for 20 years.
