Vocational Ministry:
Is Ministry a Profession?
12:15 PM
Panel description coming soon.
Moderator
Ryan Bouton, D’01
CCC Staff Team Leader, Dartmouth College
Ryan '01 is married to Jenny '02 and has four beautiful daughters and a new son. As a student at Dartmouth, Ryan learned the value both of strong faith and difficult questions. While majoring in Classics, he also studied religious and philosophical issues in and out of the classroom. Since graduating in 2001, Ryan has served on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ at Brown University and Dartmouth, where he now leads the CCC staff team. He serves as an elder at Christ Redeemer Church and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion through Reformed Theological Seminary.
Ryan's interests include playing the guitar, singing, American history, physics, Gospel studies, the "Synoptic Problem," biblical theology and biblical studies of all kinds. He has a great love for mythology and fantastic fiction, as well as evocative, folk-guitar-rock music and all that calls the transcendence of God and reality to mind.
Panelists
Sister Louise Marie, SsEW
Director, Casa Maria Retreat House
Born and raised in Manhattan, Sister Louise Marie attended Santa Catalina boarding school in California, run by the San Rafael Dominicans. After graduating from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, she worked with educational programs in Latin America and then taught with Marva Collins in the inner city in Chicago for one year, and subsequently in a Parochial school in New York City. She became interested in the religious life, and leaving the world behind (her grandmother worked in the world of fashion as editor of Harpers Bazaar for many years), she joined the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word in Birmingham, Alabama, a recently founded community working in catechetics and retreats. At present she is the director of the Casa Maria Retreat House, and has supplemented her catechetical background with courses from the Catholic Distance University, which is affiliated with the sacred Congregation for the Clergy in Rome.
Susan Conroy D’87
Author, Mother Teresa’s Lessons of Love
Susan Conroy journeyed alone to Calcutta, India between her junior and senior years at Dartmouth College after being inspired by Mother Teresa's efforts there on behalf of the Poorest of the Poor. That very first summer-long experience of volunteering in the children's orphanages and in the Home for the Dying led to an 11-year friendship with this "living saint" - and to the writing of Susan's first book: "Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love & Secrets of Sanctity." Susan now tours the country giving talks and signing books. She has authored and translated 7 books in all, including two best-sellers, and hosts her own global television program called "Speaking of Saints," which airs on EWTN.
Craig Morton D’89
Pastor, Wellspring Worship Center, West Lebanon, NH
Craig Morton was raised in Michigan and became a Christian in high school, while attending a local Salvation Army church. Craig attended graduated from Dartmouth 1989, majoring in Religion. At Dartmouth, Craig was active in the Dartmouth Area Christian Fellowship as well as Campus Crusade for Christ. After graduation, he spent several years in information systems management at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before becoming a full-time pastor. Since 2008 he has served as the pastor of Wellspring Worship Center and he is currently completing his Masters of Divinity degree at Regent University. Craig married Karen Redding ‘88 just after graduating Dartmouth. They have four children and reside in Lebanon, NH. Craig’s passion is to pastor a vibrant community of people who love God and want to grow in their spiritual life. Having a healthy balance of the Word of God and the Spirit of God is an ongoing goal at Wellspring.
Rev. Robert V. Mucci, D’79
Vice-Chancellor, Diocese of Brooklyn
Father Bob Mucci is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979 with a degree in Mathematics. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Dragon Senior Society and was student manager of the varsity baseball team. He enjoyed a very successful twenty-five year career as an actuary with AIG and one of its affiliates, Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, where he was an Executive Vice-President and Chief Actuary and was a member of that company's Board of Directors. He left that career behind in 2004 when he entered a program of priestly formation for the Diocese of Brooklyn. After a year of Philosophy studies at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, New York he was assigned to the Pontifical North American College, America's seminary in Rome. He earned a baccalaureate degree in Sacred Theology (STB) in 2008 and a licenciate in Canon Law (JCL) in 2011 from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In between, he was ordained a priest on June 27, 2009 at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. James in Brooklyn. Upon the completion of his studies, Father Mucci returned to the Diocese of Brooklyn where he is currently assigned as parochial vicar at St. Mary, Mother of Jesus parish in the Bensonhurst/Bath Beach section of Brooklyn as well as a Vice-Chancellor for the Diocese and a Judge on its Tribunal.
