Rachel Dodd
Adjunct Affiliate Professor of Youth, Family, & Culture
BA, Church Music and Youth Ministry, Point Loma Nazarene University
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
DMin, Spiritual Formation and Direction, Fuller Theological Seminary
Bio
Rachel Dodd is an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary’s School of Theology and Seattle Pacific Seminary (Seattle Pacific University). Having served in student and family ministry in the UK and US for over 20 years, Rachel now equips those following their own calling in ministry as a spiritual director and writer. She is Book Reviews Editor for the Review of Religious Research and Managing Editor of the Fuller Youth Institute, where she has written, curated, and edited youth ministry resources including Compassion from the Inside Out, Faith in an Anxious World, Can I Ask That?, Sticky Faith Innovation, and Young Adult Ministry Now. She and her husband, Carl, now live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and have two teenage daughters.
Publications
“Compassion as the Soil for Spiritual Formation: Reimagining Spiritual Formation with Young People.” Flourish: A Journal of Progressive Ministry (Volume 1). 2025.
Church & Society (The United Methodist Church). Connecting Faith and Justice: Youth Lectionary Curriculum. 2025–2026.
“The Way of Compassion: Merging Contemporary Insight with Contemplative Practice to Design a New Youth Ministry Curriculum.” Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Mission and Theology, 2024.
Dr. Dodd has also written and edited articles and resources for a variety of organizations, including the Fuller Youth Institute, the Companioning Center, the Yoga Abbey, Illustrated Ministry, YM360, Youth Specialties, Twinkl Educational Publishing, Charisma Magazine, and Focus on the Family.