Meet Our Faculty

Dean of PLTS; Associate Professor of Multicultural and Contextual Studies
avargas@plts.edu

Assistant Professor of Old Testament
jgonzalez@cdsp.edu

Associate Professor of Homiletics
shannan@plts.edu

Associate Professor of Practical Theology; Diaconal Ministry Program Director
cjacobson@plts.edu

Assistant Professor of New Testament
lmenendezantuna@plts.edu

Professor of Theological and Social Ethics
cmoelobeda@plts.edu

Director, Theological Education for Emerging Ministries [TEEM]
mpenumaka@plts.edu

First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology
kstjerna@plts.edu

Director of Contextual Education
lveen@plts.edu

Associate Dean for Student Formation
cevans@plts.edu

Instructor of Research and Writing
kmoles@callutheran.edu

Instructor of Biblical Greek; Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology
gpence@plts.edu

Distinguished Research Professor of Systematic Theology
tedfpeters@gmail.com

Senior Adjunct of Liturgical and Theological Studies
kschiefelbein@plts.edu

Instructor of Pastoral Care and Leadership
msteinwebber@callutheran.edu

PLTS students take a wide range of courses from faculty members of the Graduate Theological Union and its member schools and centers.

Michael Aune
Professor Emeritus of Liturgical and Historical Studies
Everett Roy Kalin
Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor Emeritus of New Testament
Walter Martin Stuhr
Professor Emeritus of Ethics
Edmond Yee
Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies