Stephanie Crumpton
Contact information:
Field of Study: Ministry/Practical Theology
Designation: Professor of Practical Theology
Email: scrumpton@mccormick.edu
Extension: 6329
Office: 516
Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton is Professor of Practical Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary, where she also serves as Director of the Trauma Healing Initiative and co-host of the Be Well Podcast. In 2019, she was awarded tenure when she was promoted to Associate Professor. Since joining McCormick in 2017, Dr. Crumpton has become a leading voice in pastoral theology, trauma healing, and justice-centered theological education.
Before joining McCormick, Dr. Crumpton served as Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary and previously as Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Hood Theological Seminary. She has also taught at Chicago Theological Seminary, Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. While in Georgia, she served as a state court advocate and consultant on the Georgia Commission on Family Violence.
Ordained with ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ in 2013, Dr. Crumpton’s scholarly and ministerial work centers on pastoral theological methodology, theories of personality development, family systems theory, and the historical and social dimensions of pastoral counseling. Her work consistently explores healing, care, and the role of the church in responding to trauma and violence within communities.
Dr. Crumpton is the author of We Gon’ Be Alright (University of Arizona Press, 2025), as well as A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her published work also includes “After the 911 Call: A Pastoral Theologian Reflects on Family Violence Advocacy,” published in Cross Currents Magazine (Spring 2013).
Throughout her career, Dr. Crumpton has received numerous fellowships and honors recognizing both her scholarship and community-centered work, including the Baldwin Fellowship through the Lancaster County Community Foundation, the Wabash Center Graduate Student Fellowship, the North American Doctoral Fellowship, the Expanding Horizons Doctoral Fellowship, and the United Church of Christ Adrienne M. & Charles Shelby Rooks Fellowship for Racial & Ethnic Theological Students.
Dr. Crumpton received her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from Langston University in 1997, earned her Master of Divinity from Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in 2005, and completed her Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Care & Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in 2012.