Taylor Walters Denyer
Fully Affiliated Faculty
United Methodist Studies
Curriculum vitae
Education
D.Th. Missiology, University of South Africa, 2019
M.Div., Wesley Theological Seminary, 2009
MA in International Development, American University, 2002
BA in International Studies, American University, 2001
Areas of expertise
Taylor W. Denyer is a missiologist, United Methodist elder (North Katanga Conference), Metho-nerd and global nomad who is passionate about naming and addressing the toxic beliefs and unhealed traumas that undermine the development of healthy communities and missional partnerships. She currently lives in Cairo, Egypt, with her husband (a foreign-service officer) and daughter. She has lived and served in India, Slovenia, Algeria, Djibouti, Zambia, DR Congo, Chile and the United States. She serves as the Rev. Dr. Bishop Mande Muyombo's executive assistant for strategic partnership and engagement for the UMC’s North Katanga-Tanganyika-Tanzania Episcopal Area and the president of Friendly Planet Missiology. Recently, she has begun speaking on the topic of monotropism and the neuroqueer community.
Selected published works
“Ecclesiastic Empires: American Conflict and the UMC in Africa” in Methodism & American Empire edited by David W. Scott and Filipe Maia, Abington, 2024.
Foreword writer and co-editor of Pastors, Chiefs, and Warlords: The Ministry of Being With. Wipf and Stock, 2022.
“Isolation, Connection, and the Worldwide Web” in Acta Missiologiae. Central and Eastern European Association of Mission Studies, Vol 10, 2022.
“Decolonizing Methodist Mission Partnerships” in The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism: Emerging Trends from Everywhere to Everywhere, edited by David W. Scott and Darryl W. Stephens, Routledge Methodist Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2021.
Decolonizing Mission Partnerships: Evolving Collaboration between United Methodists in North Katanga and the United States of America. American Society of Missiology Monograph Series. Pickwick Publications, 2020.
Foreword writer and consulting editor of Bob Walter’s The Last Missionary. Wipf and Stock, 2020.