Olive Hemmings

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<div class="page" title="Page 25"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b><i>Chair, Henry and Sharon Fordham Department of Religion<br /> </i></b></span><span class="s1"><b><i>Professor of Religion and Ethics, Washington Adventist University</i></b></span></p> <p>Olive Hemmings is Chair of the Henry and Sharon Fordham Department of Religion at Washington Adventist University. She has been teaching in Seventh-day Adventist higher education since 1982. Her Masters is in New Testament and Biblical Languages, and her Ph. D is in Theology, Ethics, and Culture (CGU, 2005). She is an ordained minister of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and pursues a yearly itinerary of preaching and teaching. She is engaged in an active writing/publication ministry mainly on topics of current ethical concerns in church and society, with the prophetic origins of the gospel as a foundation. She has presided over the Adventist Society for Religious Studies – a major professional society of Adventist Religion/Theology scholars. In 2022, Hemmings joined the Georgetown University ACPE chaplaincy program in order to develop pastoral/spiritual care competence, and has found it to be a deeply spiritually transforming journey.</p> <p>Olive has been married to Charles Kuuku of Accra, Ghana, since 1978, and they have three young adult “children.” Her great passion in life is fueled by a strong sense of vocation and sustained by the grace of God.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>