Denver Seminary

157 Professor Miller earned an MA from the University of Denver, an MRE from Denver Seminary, and a BS from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She served on the American Theological Library Association membership committee and was on the index board and the board of directors. She also served on the executive committee of the ATLA board of directors. David Osborn Dr. David Osborn joined the faculty in 1996 and is senior professor of Christian leadership. He served as past president of the Association for Doctor of Ministry Education in the United States and Canada and is currently the historian of the organization. Dr. Osborn earned the DMin and MDiv from Denver Seminary, an MA from Harding College Graduate School of Religion, and an AB from Johnson Bible College. He studied research and statistics at the University of Colorado in order to do research for cross-cultural church planting. He was also a part of the Lilly Foundation-funded Cooperative Congregational Studies Project, the most extensive research ever undertaken of congregations in the United States, serving for a time on the executive committee. He brought to his role as director of the DMin program wide experience as a pastor, church leader, and conciliator in conflicts. In Tupelo, Mississippi, in the 1960s, he was involved with other ministers in assisting the school system to integrate peacefully. It was in Tupelo that he first served as president of the ministerial association, a position that he held in different ministerial associations fourteen different times. Ministering in Florida in the 1970s, he served as president of state and regional conventions and of a P.T.A. He has also managed a youth camp. In the 1980s while ministering in New Zealand, he served as president of city, regional, and national ministerial associations and helped to resolve conflicts between and within churches. Since then, he has been involved in the study of leadership, has done research on churches, has edited directories of church information, and continues to work with churches to resolve conflicts. Joan Wells Dr. Joan Wells joined Denver Seminary as an adjunct faculty member in 1988. She became a full-time faculty member of the counseling department in 1991. She is a member of the American Counseling Association, Christian Association for Psychological Studies, and Christians for Biblical Equality. Dr. Wells received a PhD from the University of Denver, an MA from Adams State College, and a BA from the University of Southern Colorado. She was on the faculty of Metropolitan State College in the special education program from 1979–1988. She is a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist interested in psychological and educational assessment. She has also served as a psychologist for the Littleton public schools and in private practice with the Minirth-Meier Clinics. She has served as state president for the Council for Exceptional Children in Colorado and has chaired the Colorado Advisory Committee for Exceptional Children. She also coordinated the Political Action Network for Colorado on behalf of handicapped and gifted children. Dr. Wells is the author of book chapters relating to topics in pastoral care, pro-life issues, and gender studies and has conducted research under grants from the Association of Theological Schools and the U.S. Department of Justice.

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