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Dr. Debra Rienstra

Professor
English

Biography

Professor Rienstra began her higher education at Calvin University (then Calvin College) before transferring to the University of Michigan, where she received her bachelor of arts in English literature in 1987 with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction. She completed her graduate studies at Rutgers University, receiving an MA in English literature in 1991 and a PhD in literatures in English in 1995. She joined the Calvin University English department in 1996.

Recent Activities

Professor Rienstra’s most recent book is  (Fortress, 2022). Previous books include Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Worship, a collaboration with Rev. Dr. Ron Rienstra released by Baker Academic in 2009. Her 2005 book,  (Jossey-Bass), won an Award of Merit from Christianity Today in the apologetics category, and Great With Child (Tarcher-Putnam, 2002) was named a Best Book of 2002 by Publisher's Weekly.

Professor Rienstra was the 2008 Calvin faculty lecturer at the at Calvin College with a talk titled "Words Wear Out: How Writers Help Us Renew Religious Language."

Additional Information

  • Professor Rienstra writes fortnightly for . Her essays are archived .
  • She also writes the , a fortnightly newsletter about faith and climate change.
  • For more information on her writing and her speaking schedule, .
  • The Green Lectionary Podcast,
  • No Small Endeavor Podcast,
  • Scholarly article:
  • »Æ´óÏɸßÊÖÂÛ̳ January Series in July 2023, .

Education

MA, PhD (Rutgers, 1991, 1995)

Academic Interests

  • Early modern British literature
  • Literary nonfiction 
  • Nature writing and ecotheology 
  • Shakespeare
  • Early modern British poetry and religious lyric

 

Publications

Worship Words

Worship Words

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Great with Child

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Refugia Faith

So Much More

So Much More

Debra Rienstra

Contact Me

526-8526
270 Covenant Fine Arts Center

Where to Find Me

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