Amanda Drury is Professor of Practical Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University and is ordained in The Wesleyan Church. She serves as the Executive Director of the Imaginarium, which runs the Strengthening Ministry with Children Coordination Program. Through this work, Amanda and her team partner with 295 nonprofits committed to serving children and families.
She lives in Marion, Indiana, with her husband, John, and their three children, Sam, Clara, and Paul. Amanda earned her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2005 and completed her doctorate in 2012.
PHD
Princeton Theological Seminary , 2012
MDIV
Princeton Theological Seminary , 2005
BS
Indiana Wesleyan University , 2002
Learn more about Amanda's education, professional experience, and more!
Books:
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. Testimony and Trauma: Making Space for Healing. Fortress Academic, 2021.
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. Saying Is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development. IVP Academic, 2015.
- Dean, Kenda Creasy, Andrew Root, Amanda H. Drury, and Blair D. Bertrand, eds. Consensus and Conflict: Practical Theology for Congregations in the Work of Richard R. Osmer. Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock), 2019.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “Moralistic Therapeutic Pietism.” Princeton Seminary Bulletin (online), October 11, 2017.
- Dean, Kenda Creasy, and Amanda Hontz Drury. “Rethinking Youth Sunday.” Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts 42, no. 2 (Fall 2008).
Book chapters:
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “Frodo’s Magnificat: Children’s Fantasy Literature and the Kingdom of God.” In Consensus and Conflict: Practical Theology for Congregations in the Work of Richard R. Osmer, edited by Kenda Creasy Dean, Andrew Root, Amanda H. Drury, and Blair D. Bertrand. Pickwick Publications, 2019.
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “Spiritual Formation in Early, Middle, and Older Adulthood.” In Teaching the Next Generations: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching Christian Formation, edited by Terry Linhart. Baker Academic, 2016.
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “Habituated Spontaneous Judgment: A Conversation with John Dewey’s How We Think.” In Call Me Coach: A Festschrift in Honor of Keith Drury on His Retirement from Full-Time Ministry, edited by Stephen Lennox and Kenneth Schenck. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “Church and Family: The Family’s Role in Christian Education.” In Discipleship That Transforms: An Introduction to Christian Education from a Wesleyan Holiness Perspective, edited by John H. Aukerman. Warner Press, 2011.
- Drury, Amanda Hontz. “The Church Jesus Builds Is Catholic.” In The Church Jesus Builds: A Dialogue on the Church in the 21st Century, edited by Joseph Coleson. Wesleyan Publishing House, 2007.
