Jeanne Stevenson Moessner

Rev. Dr. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner

Rev. Dr. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Professor of Pastoral Care at Perkins School of Theology [Southern Methodist University], an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA), a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology, a Henry Luce III Fellow, and a former Chair of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She was a Resident Member at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton (2012), President of the SMU Faculty Senate (2016-2017) and a member of the SMU Board of Trustees (2016-2017). She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Jeanne has taught at Columbia Theological Seminary, The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, and as Visiting Faculty at The University of Luzern, Switzerland (2012). She served three years on the American Academy of Religion’s Theological Education Committee.

Jeanne has been on the Board of Trustees at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis where a classroom was named in her honor. She is currently a member of the Pastoral Care Advisory Board at Children’s Health, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

She co-edited a volume which transformed the field of pastoral theology - Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press). Jeanne is the editor of three additional pioneering volumes in pastoral care of women along with six additional books, the two most recent of which are Portable Roots: Transplanting the Bicultural Child (2014) and Overture to Practical Theology: The Music of Religious Inquiry (2016). Her book The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God’s Family received an award from the Academy of Parish Clergy, and she was honored in 2010 with The American Association of Pastoral Counselor’s Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing Award.

Jeanne has trained in rape crisis centers, a child abuse council, an addictive disease unit, four domestic violence programs, and a community mental health clinic. Her classes at Perkins often include a training component in Dallas programs and centers that address the above issues.

Jeanne’s husband, Dr. David P. Moessner, currently holds the A.A.Bradford Chair of Religion at Texas Christian University. Jeanne and Dave have a wonderful daughter, Jean (26), a beloved son, David, who passed away in January of 2015, and two precious granddaughters.