School of Theology

Sarah Sumner, Ph.D., serves as professor of theology and ministry, and as special assistant to the dean for strategic development in C.P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology. She is the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Her published books include Men and Women in the Church: Building Consensus on Christian Leadership (2003), Leadership Above the Line (2006), and Just How Married Do You Want to Be? Practicing Oneness in Marriage (slated for release in July 2008). Dr. Sumner also serves as a regular teaching pastor at New Song Church in San Dimas California, and as an aerobics instructor at Bally Total Fitness. In 2007, she founded www.sumnerconsulting.com and now travels internationally to do speaking and consulting. She has appeared on shows such as The Early Show for CBS News, and Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire. Sarah and her husband, Jim, have been married for eleven years and are in the process of adopting an older child.