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Professor Monie dies October 30
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r. Blair R. Monie, professor in the Louis H. and Katherine S. Zbinden Distinguished Chair of Pastoral Ministry and Leadership, died at his home in Dallas on October 30, following a year of treatment for pancreatic cancer. Dr. Monie taught at Austin Seminary in the areas of pastoral ministry, church administration, congregational leadership, stewardship, and liturgy since 2014. Prior to his appointment to the faculty, he served on the Austin Seminary Board of Trustees from 2003-2012. Blair Monie had a long and distinguished career as a Presbyterian pastor. He retired in 2014 after serving as pastor/ head of staff of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, for two decades. He spent his first twenty years of ministry serving churches in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Monie earned a BA in English from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and the MDiv and DMin from Princeton Seminary, where his doctoral thesis focused on the supervision of seminarians in field education. He is the author of the PC(USA) adult study guide Seven Days to Glory (2011). He was a member of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), chairing the Congregational Ministries Division. He was also a member of the Committee on Theological Education (COTE), and he chaired the Ecclesiology Committee of the 217th General Assembly in 2006, with major responsibility for the Report of the Special Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. In 2013, Robert J. and Mary Wright of Dallas honored Blair Monie’s ministry at Preston Hollow by endowing the Blair R. Monie Distinguished Chair in Homiletics at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A memorial service was held on November 17 at Preston Hollow; a service of remembrance in Shelton Chapel will occur during the spring semester. First Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas, endowed the Louis H. and Katherine S. Zbinden Chair in 2002 in honor of their long-time pastor, the Reverend Louis H. Zbinden, and his wife. This endowed professorship was designed to bring the wisdom and experience of pastoral leadership into the closest proximity possible to seminary students. From the depth and breadth of personal experience leading congregations, this professor teaches pastoral ministry, church administration, congregational leadership, and stewardship. Previous holders of the chair were The Reverends Louis H. Zbinden and K.C. Ptomey.
Meet the entering class for 2018 Left: students in the Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Ministry Practice, and Master of Arts (Theological Studies) programs; below: students in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry program
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