{"id":32526,"date":"2026-01-14T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/?post_type=team-member&#038;p=32526"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:38:04","slug":"dr-ed-smither","status":"publish","type":"team-member","link":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/team-member\/dr-ed-smither\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ed Smither"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ed Smither (PhD, University of Wales; PhD, University of Pretoria) serves as Professor of History of Global Christianity and Dean of the School of Missions and Intercultural Ministry at Columbia International University. Previously, he taught church history and intercultural studies at Liberty University Theological Seminary. Prior to serving in higher education, Ed spent 14 years in intercultural ministry in North Africa, France, and the USA. Ed has written or edited twenty books in church and mission history and missiology. He serves as Vice President of the Evangelical Missiological Society and was founding editor of the Journal of EMS. Since 1999, Ed has been married to Shawn, and they have three young adult children\u2014Brennan, in the US Army; Emma, a junior at the University of South Carolina; and Eve, a high school senior. In his free time, Ed enjoys road biking, traveling, and cheering for the Washington Commanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean of the School of Missions and Intercultural Ministry at CIU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32527,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"teamtype":[29],"class_list":["post-32526","team-member","type-team-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","teamtype-board"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member\/32526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team-member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"teamtype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shepherdsglobal.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teamtype?post=32526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}