Thomas J. Hastings Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

Intercultural pastoral educator Rev. Dr. Thomas John Hastings is executive director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center. Dr. Hastings was senior research fellow at the Japan International Christian University Foundation in New York City and associate director at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ.

While serving with his wife, Carol, as Presbyterian Church (USA) mission co-workers in Japan (1988–2008), he was professor of practical theology at Tokyo Union Theological Seminary.

In addition to many publications in Japanese and English, he is author of Seeing All Things Whole: The Scientific Mysticism and Art of Kagawa Toyohiko 1888–1960 (Pickwick, 2015) and Practical Theology and the One Body of Christ: Toward a Missional-Ecumenical Model (Eerdmans, 2007).

He received a BA from Boston College, an MA from Wheaton College Graduate School, and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Hastings is an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Dr. Hastings is editor of OMSC’s journal, the International Bulletin of Mission Research.