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Cory Driver

Director, Center for L.I.F.E.

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Cory Driver

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Academic Background

  • Ph.D. Emory University - Religion (Dissertation - "Drinking the Milk of Trust": Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco) 2017
  • M.Div. Luther Seminary 2021
  • M.A. Ohio State University - Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 2011
  • B.A. & B.S. Purdue University - Economics, Management & Political Science 2005

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Miami University: Director of L.I.F.E. (Leading the Integration of Faith and Entrepreneurship) 2024-
  • Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo: Director of Graduate Studies, 2021-2022
  • Luther Seminary: Adjunct Professor, 2021-
  • Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary: Adjunct Professor, 2019-
  • University of Indianapolis: Adjunct Professor, 2019-2022

Recent Publications

  • - BOOKS • Forthcoming 2025. God, Gender and Family Trauma: Re-Reading Genesis as Revelation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. (an examination of how religious texts can be an asset for healing from trauma) • 2021. Life Unsettled: A Scriptural Journey for Wilderness Times. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. (a modern commentary of the Book of Numbers for unsettling political, social and economic situations) • 2018. Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco: Drinking the Milk of Trust. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (an analysis of interreligious economic cooperation)
  • - MONOGRAPHS • 2022. The Present Word, Winter 2023: From Darkness to Light. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
  • - CHAPTERS/COLLECTIONS • Forthcoming: 2024. “Gender in Creation and Fall: Three Middle Eastern Perspectives.” in ETSC Faculty Review 2023-2024. Cairo: Dar Salaam Press. • Forthcoming: 2024. “Watching ‘Black Panther’ in North Africa: Anti-Colonial Theologies in a Moroccan Movie Theatre.” in Afro-Theologies of Black Panther. Matthew Brake, ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. • 2020. “For Those on the Way: A Liturgy for Migrants.” in Rally: Litanies for the Lovers of God and Neighbor. Britney Winn Lee, ed. Nashville: UR books. • 2019. “Hiding the Bread in Ramadan: The Anxiety of Piety among Christian Sub-Saharan Migrants.” in Dialogic Configurations in Post-Colonial Morocco: Rhetorical Conjectures in Arts, Culture and Politics. Najib Mokhtari, ed. Rabat: International University of Rabat Press.
  • - ARTICLES • 2022. “Sacrilege: Side-Hustles and Non-Living-Wage [Church] Work.” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics 22 (1). • 2020. “Mosaic Leadership in Rabbinic Literature.” in Word & World 40 (2). 180-189. • 2019. “Translating Jewish Cemeteries in Morocco.” in PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. (25). 89-104.

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