Maury Jackson, DMin
Chair, Pastoral Studies Department
Associate Professor, Practical Theology
HMS Richards Divinity School
La Sierra University

Dr. Maury Jackson (DMin) serves as associate dean at the HMS Richards Divinity School of La Sierra University, professor of Practical Theology, chair of the Pastoral Studies Department, and Coordinator of the Philosophical Studies program. He is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist Christian clergy with nearly two decades of experience in pastoral leadership, serving congregations in the southern California area. He holds degrees in philosophy, theology, and ministry from Claremont School of Theology, California State University, Los Angeles, Andrews University Theological Seminary, and La Sierra University. His most recent book chapter publications are “Ecclesiology and Theodicy: Bonhoeffer’s Sanctorum Communio as Response to Human Suffering” in the book entitled Can You Hear My Pain Now? Making Pastoral Theology Relevant in a Modern World eds. Michael G. Maness and Kevaughn Mattis, (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers 2022) and “Healing Shepherds and the Pastoral Care of African American Religioracial Ills” in the book African American Seventh-day Adventist Healers in a Multicultural Nation eds. Ramona Hyman and Andy Lampkin, (Nampa Idaho: Pacific Press Publications 2021). Journal publications include articles in: Adventist Today To Seven Generations: How the Sabbath Principle Can Save Our Environment [Winter 2022 Issue], Adventist TodayInterpreting Life With the Help of the Bible [Fall 2021 Issue], Adventist Today How Satan Helps Us Address Social Justice Issues [Spring 2021 Issue],  Ministry: International Journal for Pastors Book Review on Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today [January 2020], Cultural and Religious Studies The Twisted Fate of the King James Version and the Black Religious Experience in America [September 2019], Adventist Today, Adventist History, Herstory, and Ourstory: Towards a Peoples’ History of the Origin of Black Adventism [October 21, 2018], Cultural and Religious Studies Shepherding Public Discourse Practices: Homiletic Form Aligned to the Logic Operative in Racial Rhetoric and Public Theological Discourse for Secular Liberal Democracies [September 2016], Spectrum Magazine The Community of Sinners and Saints [August 2014], Spectrum Magazine Who Calls Creation Good [August, 2014], Adventist TodayMoral Education and the Adventist Print Media [Fall 2014 Issue], Adventist Today When Anger Heals: A Christian Response to the Global Healthcare Debate [Winter 2013 Issue], Spectrum Magazine Delivering Salvation: Pregnancy and Childbirth [Spring 2012 Issue], Adventist Today Sketching an Adventist Vision for Global Mission [Spring 2012 Issue], Spes Christiana The Heresy Tertullian Overlooked: On Prescription against the Apologist’s Use of Rhetoric[2011-12 vol. 22-23], and Adventist Today, Answering the Call for a Sacred Conversation on Race [Fall 2008 Issue].

Recently together he and Nathan Brown coedited the book A House on Fire: How Adventist Faith Responds to Race and Racism (Signs Publishing, 2022). He is married to Marlene Esther Jackson and together they share 5 beloved adult children.