Rebecca Irwin-Diehl, Ph.D.

As director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ Center for Continuous Learning (CCL), Rebecca Irwin-Diehl is committed to being a fellow learner, to practicing action-reflection, and to ensuring that all CCL offerings are useful for the strengthening of God’s people, the renewing of minds, and the transforming of God’s world. A practical theologian, she wants learning to have real-world relevance and life-changing application. She is passionate about learning—learning from books and other media, from listening to and interacting with people as individuals and in community, and from immersing herself in hands-on experience. Irwin-Diehl was an editor with Judson Press for more than 20 years, and her new role has continuity with her experience in publishing ministries because she continues to build a platform from which God’s Word may go forth.