CURRICULUM VITÆ J. TED BLAKLEY M.Div., Ph.D. Colored text are links to additional information regarding an institution or an individual (blue), samples of my work (purple), websites I have designed and/or contributed to (green), and student evaluations (red).
VOCATION
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word —Isaiah 50:4a I am a follower of Jesus. I seek to serve God by exercising my gifts of scholarship, teaching, leadership, and compassion. My calling and passion is to draw people into the Christian faith, to ground them in their identity as God’s beloved, to contribute to their spiritual formation and discipleship, and to equip and mobilize them to participate in what God is doing to rescue and restore the whole world.
ORDINATION
	Canonically Resident in The Episcopal Diocese of Kansas
7 June 2014	Ordained to the Holy Order of Priests by the Right Reverend Dean Elliott Wolfe, D.D. at Grace Episcopal Cathedral; Topeka, Kansas
24 Aug 2013	Ordained to the Holy Order of Deacons by the Right Reverend Dean Elliott Wolfe, D.D. at Grace Episcopal Cathedral; Topeka, Kansas
EDUCATION
2012–2013	Anglican Studies Bishop Kemper School of Ministry (Topeka, Kansas)
Sept 2008	Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Studies St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland) Ph.D. Thesis: Incomprehension or Resistance?: The Markan Disciples and the Narrative Logic of Mark 4:1–8:30 • Abstract Supervisor: Ronald A. Piper Internal Examiner: Kelly R. Iverson External Examiner: John Muddiman
Sept 2003	Master of Letters, First* St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland) M.Litt. Dissertation: The Crisis of Diversity: Historical Objectivity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Supervisor: Richard Bauckham Internal Reader: Ronald A. Piper External Reader: Larry W. Hurtado * I completed all of the requirements for the M.Litt., receiving a First on the coursework and on the dissertation. I then opted to transfer into the Ph.D. program in lieu of accepting the M.Litt. degree.
Sept 2001	Master of Divinity Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California)
May 1993	Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude Friends University (Wichita, Kansas) Honors Thesis: Private Conversations with Jesus: Translations and Reflections in the Gospel of John
May 1993	Bachelor of Arts in Theological Languages, Summa Cum Laude Friends University (Wichita, Kansas)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Oct 15-17, 2014	“Your Leadership Edge” with the Kansas Leadership Center
Sept 15-16, 2014	“Leadership and Faith” with the Kansas Leadership Center
March 20, 2014	“Appreciative Inquiry” with Nicolette Papanek of the Clergy Leadership Institute
HONORS AND AWARDS
		Wichita Public Schools • USD 259 (Wichita, Kansas)
2013		Good Apple Award for my work as a long-term substitute at Pleasant Valley Middle School
		Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California)
2001 2000 1999 1998		Everett F. Harrison, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Award in New Testament The Dunavant/Reeves Scholarship George and Della Hummel Scholarship James F. & Barbara Beré Merit Scholarship
		Friends University (Wichita, Kansas)
1993 1992, 93 1992, 93 1989, 90 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93		Outstanding Religion Major Alpha Chi Honor Society Honors Seminar Fellow New College Fellow President’s Honor Roll Dean’s Scholarship
ECCLESIASTICAL WORK *Non-Stipendiary
St. John’s Episcopal Church (Wichita, Kansas)
Sept 2013–now	Curate Planning and Leading Worship, Preaching and Teaching, Outreach, Pastoral Care, Adult Christian Formation, Contemplative Ministry (Small Groups, Quiet Days).
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church (Wichita, Kansas)
2009–2011*	Adult Sunday School Teacher and Member of Christian Formation & Discipleship Team. Worked collaboratively to create mission statement for church-wide Christian Formation and helped establish children’s programs such as Godly Play and Circle of Discovery.
St. Mark’s Press, A Publishing Ministry of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church (Wichita, Kansas)
2009–2011	Executive Director Oversight of All Operations, Advertising, Conventions
2008–2011	Scholar in Residence Research, Writing, Public Speaking, Lector Training A Lector’s Guide and Commentary to the Revised Common Lectionary (3 vols. — Years A, B, C; see Publications and Projects).
The Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Parish (San Gabriel, California)
2002–2005	Curriculum Development Design and write curriculum for a series of small group Bible studies, The Art of Engaging Holy Scripture (see Publications and Projects).
2000–2002	Coordinator of Small Group Ministries Designed and wrote curriculum for small group Bible studies, facilitated weekly small groups studies, and helped design and implement a training program for small group facilitators.
1999–2000	Liturgical Coordinator Participated on a worship team that planned and implemented an alternative service of worship on Sunday mornings (Rite III), followed by a small group Bible study.
Chapel Hill Fellowship United Methodist Church (Wichita, Kansas)
1995–1997*	Member of New Church Plant Committee Adult Sunday School Teacher
University Friends Church; Wichita, Kansas
1992–1993	Youth Pastor Helped develop the Youth and Children’s Ministries. Primarily responsible for Sunday School, youth group, and other programs for Middle-School-aged youth.
ACADEMIC WORK
Northfield School of the Liberal Arts (Wichita, Kansas)
2014–Present	Math Faculty, Parttime Algebra II • Course Blog
Friends University (Wichita, Kansas)
2007–Present	Adjunct Professor Undergraduate: New Testament Greek Exegesis (Fall 2013) Basic Christian Beliefs (Fall 2007) • Homepage and Blog Graduate: Theology of Culture (Sum 2014) Christian Ministries Final Project (Sum 2014) Biblical World: Old Testament (Sum 2008) Fundamentals of Exegesis: Hebrew (Sum 2007, Sum 2008) • Hebrew 2 Hub
Wichita Public Schools — USD 259 (Wichita, Kansas)
2012–2014	Longterm Building Substitute — Pleasant Valley Middle School 8th Grade Math and Algebra, CWC (2014) Miscellaneous Assignments — Teaching and Instructional Technology (2013–2014) 8th Grade Social Studies (2012–2013)
2007–10, 2011	Substitute Teacher Subteach in a variety of elementary, middle, and high school settings.
Logos Research Systems, Inc. (Bellingham, Washington)
2008–2009	The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament Project As a contributing editor, I worked with a small team of scholars to develop a grammatically tagged database of the GNT in which each sentence in the GNT is analyzed and hierarchically arranged into clauses and phrases and each word is analyzed for its syntactic and semantic force to determine the role it plays in its current context. I was responsible for analyzing and tagging Mark and Luke-Acts.
St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.)
2005–2006	University Lecturer Undergraduate: Hebrew 2: Hebrew Prose and Poetry (Spr 2005, Spr 2006) • Hebrew 2 Hub
2004–2005	University Tutor Undergraduate: New Testament 1: Jesus and the Gospels (Spr 2004, Spr 2005) Hebrew 1: Introduction to Hebrew Language (Spr 2004, Spr 2005)
Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California)
1998–2002	Teaching Assistant Graduate: Beginning Greek Intensive (W98, SU98, F98, SU99, W99, SU00) New Testament 1: Gospels (F00, W02) New Testament 1: Gospels, Individualized Distance Learning (SU99, F99, W00, SP00, SU00, F00, W01, SP01, SU01, F01, W02)
1998–2002	Instructional Technologist and Educational Graphic Artist Assisted professors in incorporating new educational technologies in their research and classroom instruction, helping them work through the theoretical and practical issues involved in the use of educational technology in the learning process and training them in the use of educational hardware and software. Developed educational products for use in classroom and online instruction, including course websites, PowerPoint lectures, and the creation of original graphics related to the given subject matter. Trained professors in the development and maintenance of their course websites. Examples: Marianne Meye Thompson, Professor of New Testament John L. Thompson, Professor of Historical Theology
BLOGS AND WEBSITES
Forty-Two Jesus is my primary blog where I post my thoughts, my sermons and sermon videos. It also serves as a hub to all of my other online resources. Adult Sunday School at GSEC contains audio recordings of some of the Bible studies I taught at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. Leccionario Dominical provides free, downloadable bulletin inserts of the Revised Common Lectionary readings in Spanish. These files are used by Spanish-speaking and bilingual congregations across North, Central, and South America Hebrew 2 Hub is a course website that I first developed when I taught Hebrew 2 at the University of St. Andrews. It has a number audio and visual resources for learning and studying biblical Hebrew. Basic Christian Beliefs website and blog are the online components of an undergraduate course I taught at Friends University in 2007. Forty-Two Algebra is a course website for the Algebra II class I taught at Northfield School of the Liberal Arts. It contains assignments as well as video lessons and lectures. My Curriculum Vitæ is a detailed, interactive curriculum vitæ that includes links to publications, online courses and blogs, and samples of my writing and research.
PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
Author of A Lector’s Guide and Commentary to the Revised Common Lectionary (3 vols.; St. Mark’s Press: Wichita, Kans., 2009–2011) and creator of The Lectionary Card™. Click on images for samples. Oct 2010 Oct 2011 June 2009 The Lectionary Card™
Co-editor of Leccionario Común Revisado: Edición Ecuménica (Editors, J. Ted Blakley and William Laucher; Church Publishing, Forthcoming 2015). Pew Lectern Gospel Book
Editor of Leccionario Dominical, which are weekly bulletin inserts containing the lectionary readings in Spanish for use by Spanish-speaking and bilingual congregations in North, Central, and South America. Available online as a free download: www.blakleycreative.com/jtb/StMarksNet/ld.htm.
				Contributing Editor of The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament Project (Logos Research Systems; General Editor, Albert Lukaszewski; Contributing Editors, J. Ted Blakley and Mark Dubis). As a contributing editor, I worked with a small team of scholars to develop a grammatically tagged database of the GNT in which each sentence in the GNT is analyzed and hierarchically arranged into clauses and phrases and each word is analyzed for its syntactic and semantic force to determine the role it plays in its current context. I was responsible for analyzing and tagging Mark and Luke-Acts.
Incomprehension or Resistance?: The Markan Disciples and the Narrative Logic of Mark 4:1–8:30 (Ph.D. Thesis; University of St. Andrews, 2008). • Abstract • Complete Thesis The Crisis of Diversity: Historical Objectivity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (M.Litt. Dissertation; University of St. Andrews, 2003). • Excerpts — Introduction and Conclusion • Complete Dissertation • An Annotated Bibliography on Historiography
			Contributor to The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (ed. Katharine Dozb Sakenfeld. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn., 2006).
Author of small group studies for The Art of Engaging Holy Scripture Study Series (COS Publications: San Gabriel, Calif., 2001–2005). • The Climax of Prophecy — A Study of the Book of the Revelation • Engaging Holy Scripture I and II — The Bible for Beginners • Our Old Testament Story — A Survey of the Old Testament • Our New Testament Story — A Study of the Acts of the Apostles • Knowing and Following Jesus — A Study of the Gospels • Jesus the Prophet — A Study of the Gospel of Luke • Conversations with Jesus — Studies in the Gospel of John
				Revised, edited, and made additions to Introducing New Testament Greek by Samuel Gantt (1998).
PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND LECTURES
2015 Feb	“Adventures in Pascal’s Triangle: The Anatomy of a Discovery” Talk delivered to faculty and students of Northfield School of the Liberal Arts (Wichita, KS)
2012 Lent	“Resistance to Jesus in the Gospel of Mark” A Five-Week Lenten Series for St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (Newton, KS) Using Dr. Rob Voyle’s Appreciative Model of Change as an aid to interpretation, these presentations look at how Jesus responds to resistance to his ministry in Mark. Particular attention is given to how Jesus satisfies (vs. overcomes) the disciples’ resistance and objections to Gentile Mission in Mark 4–8.
2012 Nov 29 2011 Oct 25	“Introducing Nonviolent Communication” Lectures delivered to students in the Masters of Organization Development program at Friends University (Wichita, KS).
2011 Oct 16 2010 Dec 12	“Can I Believe the Bible?” “Reading the Bible Like an Episcopalian.” Presentations delivered to the Adult Forum at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (Newton, KS)
2010 Apr 18	“The Lectionary as a Resource for Communal Spiritual Formation.” Lecture delivered to the Adult Forum at St. Paul’s Cathedral (Oklahoma City, OK).
2010 Apr 17	“Reading Holy Scripture.” All-day training for lectors, EFM students, and Christian educators at St. Paul’s Cathedral (Oklahoma City, OK). • “Proclaiming the Word of God” • “The Metanarrative of Holy Scripture — Part 1: Our Old Testament Story” • “The Metanarrative of Holy Scripture — Part 2: Our New Testament Story” • “Reading Different Genres of Holy Scripture — Reading the Prophets”
2004 Apr 14	“The Crisis of Diversity: Historical Objectivity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus.” Paper presented to the Biblical Studies Seminar of St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K).
2003 May 2003 Apr	“Jesus, Eschatological Prophet or Sapiential Sage?” “Christian Faith & the Historical Jesus; Christian Faith & the Historical Study of Jesus.” Lectures delivered to The Historical Jesus honors module at St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K).
PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL REFERENCES
The Rev. Earl Mahan — M.Div. Rector St. John’s Episcopal Church 402 North Topeka Avenue Wichita, Kansas 67202 (316) 262-0897 earlmahan@stjohnswichita.org The Rev. Andrew O’Connor — M.Div. Rector Good Shepherd Episcopal Church 8021 West 21st Street North Wichita, Kansas 67205 (316) 721–8096 gsrector@sbcglobal.net The Rev. James B. Clark II — M.Div. Rector St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church 6715 N. Mockingbird Lane Scottsdale, Arizona 85253 (480) 948–5560 x9755 jclark@saintbarnabas.org Homepage (scroll down)
ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Chris Kettler — M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. Professor of Theology and Philosophy Friends University 2100 University Wichita, Kansas 67213 (316) 295-5562 (800) 794-6945, ext. 5562 kettler@friends.edu
Marianne Meye Thompson — M.Div., Ph.D. George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament Fuller Theological Seminary 135 N. Oakland Ave. Pasadena, California 91182 (626) 584–5249 mmthomps@fuller.edu Homepage
Bruce W. Longenecker — M.Rel., Ph.D. Professor of Religion and W. W. Melton Chair Baylor University Department of Religion One Bear Place #97284 Waco, Texas 76798-7284 (254) 710-1574 Bruce_Longenecker@baylor.edu Homepage
Christopher Seitz — M.T.S., S.T.M., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Professor of Biblical Interpretation Wycliffe College, University of Toronto 5 Hoskin Avenue Toronto, Canada M5S 1H7 (416) 946–3551 christopher.seitz@utoronto.ca Homepage (scroll down)