John Senior is the Director of the Art of Ministry and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Religion and Society at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He graduated in 2000 from Bowdoin College with a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy and in 2004 from the Harvard Divinity School with an M.Div. In 2010, Senior earned a Ph.D. in the Ethics and Society course of study from Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. He is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a Candidate for the Ministry of Word and Sacrament.
Senior works in the areas of political theology and ethics, sociology of religion, and theological education. His dissertation develops a theological account of moral formation in the context of political activism. He has also written on the relationship between ethnographic research and theological reflection.