Profiles

Laura Smit, professor of religion at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. B.A. Calvin College, M.Div. Calvin Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Medieval Philosophy and Theological Aesthetics, Boston University

She is the author of numerous articles, Serving In Weakness (a study of 2 Corinthians) and a book on the theology and ethics of romance: Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 2005). She served for three years as the youth director of the First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo and for six years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Clayton. While she continues to retain her Presbyterian ordination, in 2004 Smit was also ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.