Thursday, February 5, 2004 TODAY
Faculty of Religion news
Wil Alexander to give Valentine's Day presentation
Explaining the role of the heart and how it interacts in your spiritual life
is the topic for the inaugural Wil Alexander Lectureship. The presentation, titled "The
Innerweave of 'Heart' and 'Soul' in Spiritual Wholeness," will
be held February 14, 2004, at 8:00 p.m. at Alumni Hall for Basic Sciences on
the campus of Loma Linda University. There is no charge for the lecture, and
everyone is encouraged to attend.
Wil Alexander, PhD, founding director of the Center for Spiritual Life & Wholeness,
will be the speaker.
Dr. Alexander served as director until his retirement in 2001. He rejoined the
Center in the Fall, 2003.
Dr. Alexander is also a professor of family medicine in the School of Medicine.
He entered the ministry in the Southern California Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists and was ordained in Lynwood, California, in 1954. From 1954 to 1963,
he was on the faculty at Loma Linda as an associate professor of practical theology
where he taught courses in counseling, guidance, evangelism, preaching, and speech.
In 1957, Dr. Alexander was granted a master of arts degree from Andrews University,
Berrien Springs, Michigan; a doctor of philosophy degree in communication from
Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1962; and a master of theology degree
in 1966 from Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
His professional career includes pastoral ministry, hospital chaplaincy, college-
and seminary-level teaching, and administration. After rejoining the faculty
in 1973, he taught courses in clinical ministry and conducted research in the
area of clinical ministry to the dying patient.
In 1990, Dr. Alexander was appointed dean of the University's Faculty of
Religion, a position which he held until 1993. He served Loma Linda University
as special assistant to the president for spiritual life and wholeness from 1993
to 1997 when he founded the Center.
Dr. Alexander has authored numerous articles in a variety of journals, as well
as two books, Strange Estrangement and Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt. A third
book, Innerweave: The Spiritual Connections in Whole-person Care-A Creative
Approach in Search of a Profession, is in the final stages of production.
His distinguished career has earned him a number of awards, including Loma Linda
University School of Medicine's Senior Educator of the Year Award, La Sierra
University Alumnus of the Year, and the Loma Linda University Distinguished Service
Award.
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