{"id":26412,"date":"2026-01-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26412"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:09:30","slug":"tamisha-tyler-resigns-from-bethany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/tamisha-tyler-resigns-from-bethany\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamisha Tyler resigns from Bethany Seminary faculty to co-direct arts organization in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A release from Bethany Theological Seminary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamisha Tyler has resigned from her position as visiting assistant professor and director of the Master of Arts program at Bethany Seminary in Richmond, Ind., effective at the end of the spring semester 2026. She will become the co-director of Level Ground, a nonprofit artist collective, project incubator, and documentary production company in Los Angeles, Calif. She has been involved with the organization for a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Bethany, Tyler served as a Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022-2024 and then as visiting assistant professor and director of the Master of Arts Program in 2024-2026. Her expertise and courses provided a valuable addition to Bethany\u2019s curriculum, particularly in Theopoetics. This new opportunity will allow her to continue to follow her passions, especially in bringing together the arts, theology, and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bvs-unit-339-begins-service\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 339 begins service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-food-initiative-grants-6\/\">Global Food Initiative grants support ministries of congregations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/edf-grants-support-rebuilding-2\/\">EDF grants support rebuilding in North Carolina and Western Maryland, aid Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, the DRC, Nigeria, Venezuela, Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to 10 recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/rachel-johnson-begins-new-role\/\">Rachel Johnson begins new role as assistant for Youth and Young Adult Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamisha Tyler has resigned from her position as visiting assistant professor and director of the Master of Arts program at Bethany Seminary in Richmond, Ind., effective at the end of the spring semester 2026. She will become the co-director of Level Ground, a nonprofit artist collective, project incubator, and documentary production company in Los Angeles, Calif. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[27,3582,1774,1881,3581],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bethany-theological-seminary","tag-faculty","tag-personnel","tag-resignation","tag-tamisha-tyler"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26413,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412\/revisions\/26413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26412"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}