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Alabamians earn master’s, doctoral degrees from seminaries

  • January 24, 2008
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Alabamians earn master’s, doctoral degrees from seminaries

The following are Alabama Baptists who graduated with degrees at the master’s level or above from Southern Baptist seminaries during the fall 2007 semester. The following list of graduates was provided by the seminaries to The Alabama Baptist:

Beeson Divinity School at Samford University
Doctor of Ministry — Lon Douglas Cullen, Birmingham; Balema John Laba, Birmingham; James Arthur Rumph, Hoover; and Aubrey Sylvester Smith, Gadsden

Master of Divinity — Cokiesha Lashon Bailey, Birmingham; Nashaunna Brumfield, Homewood; Matthew Robert Burford, Anniston; Matthew Christian Byrd, Birmingham; Felecia Dawn Clements, Birmingham; Richard Benjamin Collins, Greenville; Joseph Anthony Dentici III, Birmingham; James Ottis Dewey, Birmingham; Patricia Gosha Frazier, Birmingham; Brian Robert Fulton, Calera; Jermaine Gadson, Fairfield; Meredith Brooke May, Montgomery; Russell Howard McCrory, Opelika; Stanford Ernest Mwasongwe, Birmingham;  Atoosa Nowrouzi, Birmingham; Waymon Alan Oliver, Birmingham; Nathan David Parker, Birmingham; John Mark Patrick, Birmingham; Darren Ray Paulson, Birmingham; Joshua King Posey, Pleasant Grove; Joshua Lee Price, Hoover; Timothy Mark Robinson, Tuscaloosa; Ronald Dean Sterling, Pelham; Stephen P. Todd, Hueytown; Eric Thomas Venable, Guntersville; Michael John Vreeland, Homewood; and Ruth Aung Vreeland, Homewood

Master of Theological Studies — Bradley LaMaster Barnett, Pelham; Joshua Adam Brooks, Cullman; Kelley B. Brown, Birmingham; James R. Copeland, Montgomery; Laura Catherine Faulkner, Huntsville; and Jennifer Davis Rash, Birmingham

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Doctor of Philosophy — Roland L. McMillan, Mobile, and John L. Thomas Jr., Dothan

Master of Divinity — Jamin Howard Grubbs, Decatur; Andrew Massey Heis, Gardendale; and Martin Kiewel, Bessemer (summer 2007 graduate)

Master of Divinity with specialization in Christian education — Martha Ann McCarty, Anniston, and Elaine Moody, Moody (summer 2007 graduate)

Master of Arts in Christian education — David Gregory Nelson, Eufaula

Master of Arts in marriage and family counseling — Carl Thurman McNatt, Oxford

Master of Arts in missiology — Amy Alexander Tindell, Boaz (summer 2007 graduate)


Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity — Carl Lee Bean III, Trussville; Donald Hagood Fulton, Birmingham; James Everette Meeks III, Florence; and Benjamin Steen Stubblefield, Mobile

Master of Divinity in Christian education — Edwin R. Attaway, Birmingham

Master of Arts in Christian education — Calvin Keith Warren, Jacksonville

Master of Arts in missiology — Hazel Green

 

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity — John Loren Young, Chickasaw, and Charles Andrew Jones III, Huntsville

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Master of Arts in Christian education — Lori Magnusson Downing, Ardmore, and Richard Ellis Dukes, Clayton

Master of Arts in marriage and family counseling — Elisabeth Laura Lawrence, Hartford

Master of Arts in missiology — Rachael Michelle Belue, Florence. (TAB)

 

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