H. David Schuringa
In Service of the Word
Pastor-Scholar H. David Schuringa, B.A., M.A.R., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Homiletiek and Praktische Theologie under Prof. Dr. Klaas Runia at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen. His dissertation is a comprehensive study entitled, Hearing the Word in a Visual Age: A Practical Theological Consideration of Preaching within the Contemporary Urge to Visualization.
Post-Graduate work in Europe included advanced studies under Prof. Dr. C. Trimp at the Gereformeerde Theologische Universiteit and conferences with Prof. Dr. W. H. Velema at the Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn.
Prior to Kampen, he studied at Trinity Christian College, Calvin University, The Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Westminster Theological Seminary, The University of Pennsylvania and at Calvin Theological Seminary, where he wrote his master's thesis entitled, The Preaching of the Word as a Means of Grace: The Views of Herman Hoeksema and R. B. Kuiper, under Prof. Dr. C. G. Kromminga and in consultation with Prof. H. C. Hoeksema at the Protestant Reformed Seminary.
As a pastor-scholar for parishioners, prisoners and future pastors, Dr. Schuringa taught and led for many years at Westminster Seminary California (Founding Faculty Member) and Crossroad Bible Institute. He served as an adjunct professor at The International Theological Seminary, Chong Shin University, Calvin Seminary and Kuyper College. In addition, he guest lectured at The Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary and The Sarospatic Reformed Theological University in Hungary, and pastored local churches in West Michigan and Southern California.
Before participation as a researcher at NSMC, and a consultant at Nsmpress, he worked for the nonprofit, Michigan Campaign for Justice, and for several years as a (Founding) Commissioner appointee of Governor Rick Snyder, and then Governor Gretchen Whitmer, to improve and reform public defense efforts for the poor in the criminal justice system. In Washington D.C., he has presented on Capitol Hill before bipartisan congressional and senate briefings, as well as before the Michigan Supreme Court.
NSMC is a supple research platform and think tank umbrella NGO for the wetenschappelijke functioneren binnen het spanningsveld tussen theologische theorie-vorming and praxis-handelingen [the transaction analysis of the relationship between theological theory-formation and humanitarian activation], particularly for service to the underprivileged of society. He is a member of the International Leadership Association, a global consortium for theory-praxis research.
Anchor Positions
Beverly United Reformed Church . . . . . . . . . 1982-1985
Theologicishe Universiteit Kampen (Ph.D.) 1985-1987
Westminster Seminary California . . . . . . . . . 1987-1996
Bethany Christian Reformed Church . . . . . . 1996-1999
Crossroad Bible Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999-2015
Michigan Indigent Defense Commission . . 2014-2019
Sources: academia.edu
Theologische Universiteit Kampen
Covenant Keeping
- Mary (Post) and H. David Schuringa lead a contemplative life inspired for decades by the quiet waters of Minkler Lake in West Michigan. They gratefully enjoy their four married children with 14 living grandchildren.
Schuringa deals with progressive debilitating illness. In 2001, after years of adversity, he was finally diagnosed with Relapsing Polychondritis (RP). Subsequently, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS-Blood Cancer), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cerebral Ischemia, Essential Tremors, Atrial Fibrillation, Ocular Histoplasmoses, Neuropathy, Sjogren's Syndrome, Chronic Anemia, and Vasovagal Orthostatic Hypotension. While a mass of cancer in his kidney has recently been treated, several small enhancing nodules within the bilateral renal fossa remain highly suspicious for malignancy evidence.
NIH scientists, NYU scholars, and an international team of researchers are studying his rare and highly complex condition, particularly through genome sequencing. He has consented to participation in an Autoinflammatory Genetics Study.
(Here's a glimpse of the effects of chronic illness upon one's life, for even a brief time.)
Though confined to a wheelchair in an assisted living facility, Dr. Schuringa continues his labors as he is able, alongside Mary and his colleagues, to learn with God's people how best to reflect Christ's light in this pitch-dark world.
- "Though the Lord slay me, yet will I trust in Him" (Job 13:15).
- It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man rich in knowledge to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Abraham Kuyper