George Kuria Kiarii

Self motivated adept academic scholar and theologian with multifaceted skills in integrating academia and praxis. With over ten years experience teaching theology, and religious studies, supervision and research at university level. Demonstrated high level of communication skills, poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance institutions objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.

• Stellenbosch Theological Journal, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
• Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Journal, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOSHS), Kenyatta University, Kenya

• Ordained Priest/Rector, Emmanuel All Nations Anglican Church, Federal Way, WA, USA, 08/01/20, Present
• Anglican Church of Kenya, 09/01/03, 06/12/19

Research Fellow, University of South Africa, Religion/Religious Studies, 08/01/21, Present

• The Eucharistic Meal: Factors that Hinder Women’s Participation in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Journal for Religion and Gender, 20, 1, 07/01/14, 121-140
• The Roles of Women in Spiritual Development and Formation of Children in the Anglican Church in Kenya, Pharos Journal of Theology, 97, 2016
• The changing understanding of the Eucharist among the Kikuyu communicants of the Thika Diocese in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2, 2, 2016, 295-320
• Factors Inhibiting Inculturation of the Holy Communion Symbols in the Anglican Church in Kenya: A Case Study of the Diocese of Thika, Southern African Journal of Missiology (Missionalia), 44, 3, 2016, 301-320
• Eucharistic symbols: Other emerging meanings in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 3, 2, 2017, 439-456
• Indigenous Symbols of Nourishment: What is their Place in the Sacramental Rite of Holy Communion in the Anglican Church of Kenya?, Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOSHS), 1, 1, 2018
• Theological Impediments to inculturation of the Eucharistic Symbols in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 45, 1, 2019, https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/4182
• Environmental Degradation: What is the Role of the Church in Environmental Conservation in Kenya from 1963–2019?, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46, 2, 2020
• Equipping Lay Leaders for Christian Ministry in the Anglican Church of Kenya through Theological Education by Extension Prospects and Challenges, Southern African Journal of Missiology (Missionalia), 48, 3, 2021, 257-273
• Holy Communion in the Kenya-Anglican Context: A Review of Symbols and their Inculturative Processes, Kairos Publishers, 2023
• The Quest for Kikuyu Anglican Churches in the United State of America (USA) 2016 - 2022: Their Establishments, Achievements and Challenges, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46, 2, 2024
• An African Ecclesiology of the Church as Extended Family of God that Hurt the Wounded in Africa, Reviewed and revised ready for publication by Stellenbosch Journal of Theology

• American Academy of Religion (AAR), Member
• American Academy of Religion (AAR), North West Regional member
• Christian and Scientific Association of Kenya (CSAK), Member, Kenyan Chapter