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Rev. David Christian Hahn, PhD
Renton, WA
david@lutheransnw.org
Education:
PhD Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN 2009-2014 Missiology/Congregational Mission/Leadership
DMin Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. 2006-2009 Congregational Mission/Leadership
MDiv Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN 1993-1997
BA Music Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1988-1993
Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Instructor, Rochester University, Rochester Hills, MI Fa19, Sp20, Fa20, Sp21 Holy Spirit, Leadership and Missional Communities: This online asynchronous course considered the practical implications that the Holy Spirit leads the church, amid adaptive challenges, into God’s mission in and with the world. Through listening experiments, students explore the Spirit’s leadership with ethnographic techniques alongside theological-interpretive reflections and future mapping possibilities.
Adjunct Instructor, Seattle University, Seattle, WA Su2019, Su2020 Envisioning Leadership: This course provides a forum to explore changing contexts that pastoral leadership must work today, including the implications for the practice of public leadership, within and beyond your organizational role. It explores the formation of leadership within the growing complexity, diversity, and moral challenges in our cultural life.
Adjunct Instructor, Seattle University, Seattle, WA Fa2020 Sustaining Pastoral Excellence: The course imagines leadership theory integrated with the practical realities of ministerial life. Participants will reflect on their leadership histories in light of the Enneagram, assessing pastoral strengths and limits, create and implement a learning contract, and complete the course with a leadership discernment plan for ongoing growth.
Adjunct Instructor, Seattle University, Seattle, WA Winter 2020 Theology of the Human Person: This MDiv course on Christian anthropology considered the human being in light of self-transcendence, finitude, freedom, destiny, relatedness, autonomy, growth, and history. Special attention to the horizons that shape human life, to the roots of the possibility of religion, to grace and sin in human life, and to the person and work of the Holy Spirit in human life and creation. This course served as an introduction to some of the fundamental themes and methods of theological reflection.
Adjunct Instructor, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA Winter/Sp2020 Reading and Leading in Context—Methods, Media, and Entrepreneurial Practices: This online synchronous course helped students to read ministry contexts by generating ethnographic materials. The course focused on an integration of the Spirit’s leadership amid organizational theories, including theories of change, and especially adaptive processes, and how to formulate adaptive challenge statements and experiments toward congregational renewal in God’s emerging future.
Adjunct Instructor, Seattle University, Seattle, WA Summer 2018 Fostering Communities of Faith: MDiv course emphasizes how future professional church leaders design learning environments for trusting the Spirit’s leadership in a complex world. The design integrates missional theology, and organizational leadership mutually elaborating situated contexts.
DMin Adjunct Instructor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN 2016, 2017, 2018 The Missional Church: For the past two years I have taught this Doctor of Ministry course including a one-week face-to-face intensive. This course is the second year first semester course of a four-year program. It is a deep dive and integration of trinitarian theology (LaCugna), ecclesiology (Volf), and missiology (Bosch) embedded in qualitative research interview methods in order to help pastors formulate a missional ecclesiology for their congregational contexts.
Adjunct Instructor, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN Summer 2018 Missional Church in Context: This is a travel course corresponding with the 2018 ELCA Mission Developer Training held in Seattle, Aug. 21-25. The course involves MDiv students from ELCA seminaries considering mission development work, and will integrate learning in context and in conversation with actual practitioners.
Adjunct Instructor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN Sp2017, Fa2018, Wi2020 Evangelism in Contemporary Contexts: This online full credit course included an integration of readings and in-context listening experiments between churched and non-churched folks. I invited students to experience and to discern the various layers of the Spirit’s evangelistic movements in cultures of doubt, trust, accompaniment, and belonging. Personal teaching skills exercised included online learning, video presentations, zoom video conversations, and online course management in an asynchronous learning environment.
Adjunct Instructor at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA Winter 2016 Christian Mission in Global Perspective: I taught this J-Term intensive, MDiv seniors.
Adjunct Instructor at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN Winter 2015 Leading Christian Communities in Mission: I co-taught this j-term online course including a face-to-face residential intensive with 50 students in the seminaries signature course. Teaching skills I exercised included presenting/lectures, facilitating of learning communities, helping students engage neighbors and neighborhoods through demographics and with a move to thinking theologically in context.
Instructor at St. Olaf College F2012-Sp2013 Bible in Culture and Community: This teaching experience involved three sections of a first year required Bible course (two in the Fall 2012, one in Spring 2013), and with an average class size of 18. My section included an emphasis on reading Scripture through the Modern polarities of doubt and certainty and its further implications for hospitable readings through the voices of others.
Luther Seminary Teaching Assistant Sp2012 Children, Youth and Family Ministry for the Sake of the World: I facilitated group discussions and helped senior master’s students who were writing their master’s thesis.
Luther Seminary Teaching Assistant Sp2011, Sp2012, Fa2013 Christology: Jesus the Savior and the Triune God: I served as teaching assistant including experiences as lecturer, and syllabus organizer, prepped each class with professor, led face-to-face precepts, facilitated online precepts, and administrative duties. This course has helped me to frame a congregation’s life in light of a robust Christology that challenges the distortion of the enlightenment primarily by living between doubt and confident witness, and where theory and practice are necessary companions as a way forward for local faith leaders today.
Luther Seminary Teaching Assistant Sp2011 Exercises in Biblical Theology: I was a TA for Dr. Craig Van Gelder and Dr. Rolf Jacobson and served as lecturer, facilitated class discussions, and administrative duties.
Luther Seminary Teaching Assistant 2010-11 Reading the Audiences: Two sessions included distributive and residential courses. Graded, presented instructions on class project, and administrative duties.
Luther Seminary Teaching Assistant Fa2009 The Gospel and Global Media Cultures (Online Seminar): This course helped students to think through and engage online cultures in light of gospel-centered ministry. Responsibilities included online interaction with students, and administrative details.
Consulting/Networks: Numinous Project: 2018-Present The Numinous is a project, in partnership with Dave Snowden and the Cynefin Centre, is a knowledge management process for understanding how people make sense of their world in light of spiritual engagement perspectives with the world. The process integrates a range of disciplines, including complexity science, decision making, and social complexity and cultural anthropology, to help organizations and their leadership to explore unknown unknowns of organizational cultural dynamics. For more information see, https://sensemaker.cognitive-edge.com/sensemaker-for-covid-19-2/socialgoodresearch/project-numinous/
Listening Matters LLC, Fall 2019 - Present For nearly two years, I have been working with the principal at Meadow Crest Learning Center, an early learning educational institution in Renton, WA serving over 500 families, to implement, coach and design adaptive organizational processes to break down siloes between program groups within the school by promoting greater partnerships among them through listening practices.
The Missional Network, Vancouver, Canada 2016-2018 Consultant: Partner consultant with Alan Roxburgh to Christian Reformed Church Home Missions. Responsibilities include coaching regional leaders to recruit and implement a missional adaptive discernment process with congregations and clergy. Skills exercised: Facilitating judicatory leaders in unfolding a Spirit-led discernment process throughout a denominational system, and coaching judicatory leaders to imagine a how to introduce and diffuse innovation further into the system.
Partnership for Missional Church, Church Innovations June 2017 PMC is a consulting organization who works with congregational leaders in a cohort, discernment model of adaptive change ministry. The three-year approach involves a rootedness in learning Word and world dwelling practices. In June 2017 I consulted with four dioceses in the Church of England who had been doing this work for the past six years.
Speaking, and Service to the Church
“Changing Church, Changing Times”: a 4-week zoom course for the NW WA Synod exploring adaptive complex change, April-May 2020
Presenter for the ELCA Mission Developer Congregational Vitality Training Conference, “Missional Church for the Life of the World”; Synodical Renewal Strategies Presentation entitled, “Fostering a Network of Learning Communities for Missional Adaptive Leadership”, August 2018.
Bible Study Leader, Holden Village, Sept. 2019, Aug 2017, Aug 2016, July 2011.
Conference Presenter for Wartburg Theological Seminary’s Reformation Renewal Alumni gathering, “Toward Life in God’s Bias of Generosity”, Fall 2015.
Conference Presenter for Minneapolis Area Synod’s (ELCA) synod assembly, “The Promise of Listening”, Spring 2014
Congregational Presentation on “The Spirit’s Emerging Mission among God’s Welcoming Neighbors” at co-sponsored Word Dwelling Event by Church Innovations, Desert Cross Lutheran Church, Tempe, AZ, and the Grand Canyon Synod’s New Imagination Event, Fall 2013.
Bible Study Co-Leader for the Missional Church Consultation, “Missional Church and the First Third of Life”, Luther Seminary, Fall 2011.
Workshop Leader, “Congregational Discernment as Divine Action in Conversation”, Missional Church Consultation, Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation, Luther Seminary, Fall 2010.
Research Assistant and Associate for Partnership for Missional Church at Church Innovations Institute in St. Paul, MN, 2010-Present.
Publications
Book
The Promise of Listening, a forthcoming book publication with Fortress Press (2022)
Book Chapter
“No Patiency, No Promise: Missional Warrants toward a Public Theology of Listening”. (a forthcoming chapter honoring retired professor Dr. Gary Simpson in the book Public Theology in Global Context for Fortress Academic, 2022)
“The Complexity of Listening: Toward a Liberative and Responsible Approach of Citizen Engagement”. (a forthcoming chapter in SenseMaker® with Dave Snowden, 2022).
Hahn, David C. “Congregational Discerning as Divine Action in Conversation” in Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation, ed. Dwight J. Zscheile, 145-165. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2012.
Journal Article
“Hearing to Speech: A Participatory Theology of Word-Dwelling as Congregational Formation in God’s Mission” in Quaker Religious Thought, Mar 2020, p. 25-34.
Book Reviews
Review of Thomas F. Tumblin., The Nuts and Bolts of Church Administration. Journal of Religious Leadership 17, no. 1 (2018)
Review of Dorothy C. Bass, et. al., Christian Practical Wisdom: What It Is and Why It Matters. Journal of Religious Leadership 16, no. 1 (2017).
Review of John W. Wimberly Jr., The Business of the Church: The Uncomfortable Truth that Faithful Ministry Requires Effective Management. Journal of Religious Leadership 12, no. 2 (2012).
Pastoral/Synodical/Judicatory Experience: Ordained pastoral experiences since 1997.
Director of Formation and Learning/LiVE Project Manager 2020-Present I am leading an initiative of the NW WA Synod to implement a collaborative, lay learning community called the LiVE Project (Living into Vocational Engagement). See https://www.lutheransnw.org/ministries/the-live-project
Living Local Coordinator of the NW WA Synod 2015-2020 As Living Local Coordinator my role is to introduce an adaptive synod-wide congregational discernment initiative into the system. The 18-month discernment model with congregations, pastors, and among synodical/judicatory leaders seeks to shift to an adaptive process in order to create a learning community in the system that is rooted in a set of disruptive practices. Responsibilities include recruiting and training participants and coaches, designing resources for experiment engagement and reflection, communications of varying platforms from promo website vide, to hosting introductory workshops to councils and congregational members. Skills exercised: how to convene theological reflection conversations in context with laity, clergy around adaptive leadership experimentation.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN 2015 Interim Pastor: Responsibilities included preaching pulpit supply, and leading Bible studies.
Living Christ, Flagstaff, AZ 2007-2009 Interim/Transition Pastor: Responsibilities included managing the community through transitional conflict experience, staff management and position creations, weekly worship, adult and children’s education.
Flagstaff Abbey, Emerging Ministry, Flagstaff, AZ 2007-2009 Pastor developer of this non-funded mission start involved the gathering of persons to explore and experiment with new forms of church. Began this community after four years of campus ministry, and alongside many disenfranchised and unchurched folks looking for a new expression of church life that both challenged church assumptions, and pressed more deeply into the world of others.
Lutheran Campus Ministry, Flagstaff, AZ 2003-2007 Pastor at Northern Arizona University: Position involved helping student leaders to grow deeper in their faith in Christ as a community and in their love and involvement with the world; administrative duties of finances, and budgeting, development work, personnel management, leading worship services, counseling, leadership development and recruitment, weekly Bible studies, retreat leader.
Desert Cross Lutheran Church, Tempe, AZ 1997-2003 Associate Pastor: Position involved faith formation, managing staff in children, youth and family ministry areas, young adult ministry, evangelism/outreach, administrative and budgeting in ministry areas. Introduced Alpha, Living Spirit (Alpha 2 course I personally wrote) ,and Disciple Bible Study.