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Rod Spidahl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Religion

712-707-7306
rspidahl@nwciowa.edu

Dr. Spidahl’s experience, scholarship and teaching are in the area of missiology and world religions.  He also has taught courses in philosophy, ethics, anthropology and cross-cultural communication. As a missionary to the Fulbe (a mostly Muslim people group), he and his family lived for five years in Cameroon. He has been a pastor in Lutheran and Presbyterian churches and has worked in leadership training in Cameroon, in HIV-AIDS consultation work for Africa (Kenya), and with first- and second-generation immigrants from a variety of ethnic backgrounds in the U.S.

A member of the Ethnic America Network’s national board, Spidahl also holds memberships in the American Society of Missiology and the Evangelical Theological Society. He has a doctorate from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, and a Master of Divinity degree from Lutheran Brethren Seminary, Minnesota. His bachelor’s degree, in agriculture education, is from the University of Idaho.

Contact
Dr. Michael Andres
Department of religion
Northwestern College
101 7th St. SW
Orange City, IA 51041
712-707-7079
andres@nwciowa.edu

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