Karen D. Scheib is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology at Emory University. She has taught practical and pastoral theology at Candler since 1998, and served as director of the school’s Women, Theology, and Ministry program for many years. She is also on the faculty of the Emory Center for Ethics. Karen Scheib’s research interests include faith and health, theological and cultural dimensions of crises and trauma, and narrative theory and therapy. She is the author of Challenging Invisibility: Practices of Care with Older Women (Chalice Press, 2004), has contributed to several other books, and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications. She has served on the editorial board of Journal of Pastoral Theology at the Society for Pastoral Theology. Her current writing explores the intersection of ecclesiology and practices of care.

Karen Scheib’s website at Emory University: http://candler.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/scheib-karen.html