Cory Driver
Publicly Delighting in the Power of Scripture to Help Us Care Better
My work and my passion are helping leaders lead and teach well at the intersection of Scripture, gender, nationality, and economic position. I’m a human-focused researcher at heart, focusing on how human stories and experiences in Scripture help us learn about ourselves, especially what we love, loathe, lionize, and lament.
I seek to provide nuance and context for modern interpreters of Scripture, as well as gratefully invite and receive challenge from marginalized voices from other identities, times and places.
I try to keep a professional presence in researching and writing; mentoring and forming professional Christian leaders; proclaiming Good News; and applying Scripture to the hurt places in the world.
My career, colleagues, research and life have two poles: The American Midwest and North Africa. I love the continued conversation and translation of texts and selves back and forth.
Author
A Deep-Dive into the Book of Genesis that Explores Patterns of Trauma and Hope for Healing
A Spiritual Memoir and Guided Tour of Spiritual Wilderness in the Book of Numbers
Moroccan Muslims Tell their Stories of Nostalgia for their former Moroccan Jewish Neighbors
Cory’s writing also appears in:
Rally: Communal Prayers for Lovers of Jesus and Justice - “The Dangerous Journey: A Litany for Migration”
Dialogic Configurations in Post-Colonial Morocco: Rhetorical Conjectures in Arts, Culture and Politics - “Hiding the Bread in Ramadan: The Anxiety of [Christian Migrant Women’s] Piety in Rabat
Public Theologian
Academic
Courses:
Leading the Integration of Faith & Entrepreneurship (L.I.F.E.)
Lived Religion & Compassionate Healthcare
Miami University
Courses:
Isaiah, the Prophet
Introduction to the Psalms
Prophets and Poetry
Welcome to Rabbinics
Luther Seminary
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo
Courses:
Reading Gender in the Patriarchal Narratives of Genesis
Exegeting the Old Testament
Wilderness Narratives in Numbers
Research Methods for Hebrew Bible
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Courses:
Introduction to Old Testament
Prophets & Justice
Neighbors’ Faiths: Islam & Judaism
Courses:
Introduction to World Religions
Introduction to World Religions for Health Professionals
University of Indianapolis
Preacher
Cory is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] .
He loves visiting the congregations of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio to worship God with the assembled Body of Christ and preach Good News of joy and justice.
