Self development is a higher duty than self sacrifice and should be a woman's motto henceforward.                                                             -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton                                                                (author of The Woman's Bible)                                                                Women's Rights Convention                                                                Seneca Falls, New York, 1848      Glenna S. Jackson

Dr. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, where she teaches biblical studies, women in religion, mythology, and science and religion.  A native of Wisconsin, she holds a B.A. degree in Christian Education with a minor in music (organ as applied instrument) from the University of Dubuque and a Ph.D. in religious studies from the Theology Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee.  She has published numerous articles; her book, "Have Mercy On Me": The Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28, is scheduled to be published by Sheffield Academic Press in 2000.  She and Prof. Simon Lawrance received a 1999 Science and Religion Course Competition Award sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.  She is an active member of many different professional organizations, including The Jesus Seminar and the International Society of Biblical Literature for whom she has presented papers in Hungary, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland and Finland.  Prof. Jackson began her career as an Assistant in Christian Education in El Segundo, California; she returned to Wisconsin with her husband Gary where, as a life-long United Methodist, she served in various capacities in the fields of music and religious education while raising a family of four children (Wendy, Thad, Mandy, and Adam).  She graduated with a Ph.D. the same summer that her youngest child graduated from high school.  Dr. Jackson is currently an organist at Church of the Messiah in Westerville.  Her hobbies include canoe-camping, biking, and rollerblading.
 
 
 

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