{"id":60558,"date":"2026-02-06T17:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=60558"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:35:27","slug":"in-memoriam-wendy-miller-ma-91-professor-emerita-established-spiritual-formation-program-at-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2026\/in-memoriam-wendy-miller-ma-91-professor-emerita-established-spiritual-formation-program-at-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Wendy Miller MA \u201991, professor emerita, established spiritual formation program at seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Rev. Wendy J. Miller MA \u201991 (church leadership)&nbsp;<\/strong>may have been short in stature and soft in voice, but her influence loomed large, say those close to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe had a presence and an authority that made her quiet words deeply significant wherever she spoke them,\u201d said Professor Emerita&nbsp;<strong>Dorothy Jean Weaver<\/strong>, who taught Miller at Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) and worked alongside her on faculty for 19 years. \u201cIn her own way, she was a giant. She had a huge impact wherever she was, and certainly here at EMS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller served the seminary from 1991 to 2010 in roles including campus pastor and assistant professor of spiritual formation. She was committed to helping people discover their story within \u201cGod\u2019s great story,\u201d establishing EMS\u2019 spiritual formation program, and founding training programs for spiritual directors within Mennonite Church USA and The United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At EMS, she led the Summer Institute for Spiritual Formation and developed \u201cSoul Space,\u201d an online guide for scripture reading and prayer. Many of her lasting contributions, through the gifts she shared and the lives she touched, endure today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her two decades on seminary faculty, she was an ordained minister in Mennonite Church USA\u2019s Virginia Conference and was a leading author. Among her writings,&nbsp;<em>Invitation to Presence: A Guide to Spiritual Disciplines<\/em>&nbsp;(Upper Room Books, 1995) was translated into several languages. She maintained a private spiritual direction practice until entering hospice care last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formerly of Broadway, Virginia, Miller was living in West Chicago, Illinois, when she passed away on Oct. 8, 2025. She was 87. A memorial service celebrating her life, held on Dec. 6, can be viewed on YouTube&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cPgABsjpD_Q\">here<\/a><\/strong>. A full obituary is available at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.com\/legacy\/wendy-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legacy.com\/legacy\/wendy-miller<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her husband and partner in ministry of 65 years, the&nbsp;<strong>Rev. Edmond F. Miller<\/strong>, died in October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183504\/IMG_9465-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60565\" style=\"width:650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183504\/IMG_9465-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183504\/IMG_9465-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183504\/IMG_9465-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183504\/IMG_9465.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>The\u00a0Rev. Wendy J. Miller, assistant professor emerita of spiritual formation at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, pictured in her office in January 2006.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Her imprint remains\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of Miller\u2019s \u201cgentle and steady efforts\u201d beginning when she joined the seminary faculty in 1991, said the&nbsp;<strong>Rev. Dr. Sarah Ann Bixler<\/strong>, dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, EMS centered spiritual formation in its curriculum \u201clong before theological schools in general and Anabaptist schools in particular caught on to the importance of tending the inner life of ministerial leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, hundreds of EMS graduates have been sustained in their ministerial vocations because of the \u2018invitation to presence\u2019 Rev. Miller modeled and extended to them,\u201d wrote Bixler. \u201cHer imprint remains on the EMS curriculum, and students today cite the contemplative attentiveness cultivated by EMS as a distinctive and transformative aspect of their theological education. They are more compassionate, discerning, and resilient because of Rev. Miller\u2019s influence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her influence also lives on in the touches and traditions that have become part of the fabric of the seminary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/news\/religion\/prayer-labyrinth-at-eastern-mennonite-university-offers-unique-way-to-connect-with-god\/article_644ff601-286e-5fee-b9a8-109bafb54fc6.html\">2025 article<\/a><\/strong> in the&nbsp;<em>Daily News-Record<\/em>, Miller was \u201cthe driving force behind getting the (prayer) labyrinth installed\u201d on the EMU Hill above the Seminary Building. Dedicated in 2007, the labyrinth offers a unique way to connect with God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors to the Seminary Building might be familiar with the rectangular wooden \u201cfree table\u201d just outside the second floor kitchen. It displays food and other items that people can leave or take. \u201cThat was Wendy\u2019s idea,\u201d said Weaver. \u201cThat\u2019s how tangible and simple her ideas could be. She had a deep heart for the collective community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another contribution she made to the seminary was the awareness that its faculty retreats should be held away from campus, Weaver said. For several decades, those retreats were held at Camp Overlook, a nearby United Methodist camp and retreat center. \u201cShe was someone who looked around and dreamed of things that could be,\u201d Weaver said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183518\/WendyMiller2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60566\" style=\"width:650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183518\/WendyMiller2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183518\/WendyMiller2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183518\/WendyMiller2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06183518\/WendyMiller2.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>\u201cShe was a truly delightful person, and she shared grace with the people she met,\u201d said Dorothy Jean Weaver, professor emerita at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. \u201cI have no idea how many thousands of people beyond this institution have been impacted by Wendy Miller.\u201d<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;She saw potential in (us)&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Miller\u2019s first students in the spiritual formation program, the<strong>&nbsp;Rev. Dr. Kevin Clark MA \u201996 (church leadership)<\/strong>&nbsp;was trained and trusted to lead the program when she retired in 2010. \u201cShe was my teacher, my professor, my mentor, my friend, my spiritual director, and my colleague, all wrapped up in one relationship,\u201d said Clark, a former campus pastor and retired assistant professor of spiritual formation at EMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWendy had this wisdom and insight into others that was unique,\u201d he said. \u201cPart of it was just rooted in who she was, as someone who paid attention to how God\u2019s spirit was at work within others, and offering and evoking that in her quiet, questioning way. I was always amazed at how she would be in a classroom, we\u2019d be in conversation, and she would have these wonderful little pauses, then come back with a question that was profound for a student to begin to think about. It opened up the whole classroom to a deeper understanding and awareness of their own spirituality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Les Horning \u201986, MDiv \u201998<\/strong>, director of admissions for EMS from 2012-18, also had Miller as a professor. He described her as \u201cone of the most formative presences\u201d of his MDiv experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe saw potential in folks and would find ways to let them know,\u201d he said. \u201cSuddenly, you realized,&nbsp;<em>Oh, she\u2019s seeing my heart<\/em>. I think that was one of her gifts, helping people dig beneath the surface and find out who they were.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horning graduated from EMU with bachelor\u2019s degrees in biology and chemistry and worked as a research chemist for five years before feeling a call for ministry and enrolling at EMS. \u201cFor me to come to seminary was a huge change and Wendy was a key part of helping me see that it was a good and right thing,\u201d said Horning, pastor at Stephens City Mennonite Church. \u201cShe was very good at pulling out folks\u2019 unique contributions to the community and making people feel valued and accepted and wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Clark and Horning, Weaver traveled on an overnight train to Chicago last month to attend the memorial service. She remembers Miller for her love of Winnie the Pooh, her delightful laugh, and whimsical sense of humor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was a blessed woman who shared blessing with everyone she came in contact with,\u201d Weaver said. \u201cI consider it a major gift of my life to have been a friend of hers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06154625\/EMU-93-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60560\" style=\"width:650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06154625\/EMU-93-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06154625\/EMU-93-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06154625\/EMU-93-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/06154625\/EMU-93.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Rev. Wendy Miller met her husband, Edmond, then a young U.S. Air Force airman, while attending the European Bible Institute in Paris. The couple had five children; their daughter Heidi Miller MDiv &#8217;97 taught at Eastern Mennonite Seminary as assistant professor of spiritual formation and ministry.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She grew up in England<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is from an obituary printed in the&nbsp;<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/obituaries\/the-rev-wendy-j-hill-miller\/article_b13120bc-234c-5fb8-81e4-2d325b9b5d1a.html\">Daily News-Record<\/a><\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1938 in Westham, England, Miller was a child in London during World War II and later lived in Eastbourne, East Sussex. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1959, settling in Chicago with her husband. They served as missionaries in Frankfurt, Germany, and pastored churches including Woodland (Basye) Mennonite, as well as across the Midwest and eastern U.S. Following retirement, they lived in Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina before returning to Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Miller earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Iowa Wesleyan University, a master\u2019s degree in church leadership with a concentration in pastoral care and counseling from EMS, and a master of sacred theology in spiritual theology and spiritual direction from General Theological Seminary in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She leaves five children, Paul (David Selmer) of Maine, David (Julie) of Georgia, Mark (Wendy) of Kansas, Scott (Laura) of Illinois, and Heidi (Gary MacDonald) of Georgia; 14 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, three brothers, and four sisters-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Rev. Wendy J. 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