PROFESSOR SCOTT HAGLEY PRESENTS LECTURE AHEAD OF INSTALLATION TO W. DON MCCLURE WORLD MISSION AND EVANGELISM CHAIR
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary invites you to an installation lecture May 11, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. in Hicks Chapel. Dr. Scott Hagley, associate professor of missiology, will present the W. Don McClure World Mission and Evangelism—”Unmasking American Gods: Making Place, Embracing Immanence, and Cultivating Community”—ahead of his installation to this chair in fall 2022.
This event will be in-person and online. A reception will follow the lecture.
ABOUT PROFESSOR HAGLEY
Dr. Scott Hagley joined the Pittsburgh Seminary faculty in 2015. Formerly, he served as director of education at Forge Canada in Surrey, British Columbia, where he worked to develop curriculum for the formation of missional leaders in hubs across Canada. He also served as teaching pastor at Southside Community Church, a multi-site church in the Vancouver metro area organized around neighborhood-based missional communities. Hagley received a B.A. in youth ministry and communication from Bethel University, an M.Div. from Regent College, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) in congregational mission and leadership from Luther Seminary. His doctoral dissertation attended to the lived theology of an urban congregation in its public, evangelical, and missional dimensions. Hagley has also taught courses at Augsburg College, Rochester College, Bethel University, and Luther Seminary, and previously he was a consultant and researcher with Church Innovations Institute. He has lectured at denominational meetings and retreats on topics such as missional communities, faith, and spiritual formation. Beyond preaching, Hagley’s service to the church has been in the areas of research, curriculum development, and youth ministry. He has published numerous articles and book reviews on church- and mission-related topics. His most recent book is Eat What is Set Before You: A Missiology of the Congregation in Context (Urban Loft, 2019).
ABOUT W. DON MCCLURE
W. Don McClure was born in 1906 in Blairsville, Pa. He earned his B.A. from Westminster College (Pa.) in 1928 and his B.D. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1934. McClure taught from 1928-1931 at American Mission, Khartoum, Sudan, and held a pastorate in Murrysville, Pa., from 1932-1934. Returning as a missionary to Sudan and to Ethiopia, where he was field secretary at American Mission, Addis Ababa, McClure was later killed (1977) in a guerilla raid after 50 years of missionary service through the Presbyterian Church. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus by Pittsburgh Seminary in 1978. McClure’s story is told in Adventure in Africa: From Khartoum to Addis Ababa in Five Decades, by Charles B. Partee, son-in-law of W. Don McClure and P. C. Rossin Professor Emeritus of Church History at PTS. Dr. Scott Hagley will be the third faculty member to occupy this chair.