The Faculty of the Department of Religion and Theology are leaders in the church and the academy:

Serving the Church

• Dr. David Lumpp, served on the Commission on Theology and Church Relations(term expired 2008)
• Dr. Thomas Trapp, mission pastor, Emmaus Lutheran Church, St. Paul
• Dr. Mark Press, Director of the Hoffmann Institute
• Dr. Richard Carter, recently taught at the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College in India
• Dr. Rhoda Schuler, parish liturgist at Jehovah Lutheran Church
• Dr. Stephen Stohlmann, coordinator of Iowa West Lay Leadership Institute

Serving the Academy

• Dr. Mark Schuler, regional representative for the http://umw-aarsbl.or Upper Midwest Region of the American Schools of Oriental Research, director of the Northeast Insula Project of the Hippos/Sussita Excavations, on sabbatical 2010-2011

Areas of Research/Publication

• Dr. David Lumpp - Theological Prolegomena
• Dr. Mark Schuler - Roman/Byzantine Archaeology of the Galilee and the Golan
• Dr. Rhoda Schuler - Liturgical Studies, Confirmation in the Lutheran Church, Christianity in America
• Dr. Stephen Stohlmann - structure of the Trinitarian section of the Athanasian Creed
• Dr. Thomas Trapp - translation of theological works from German