Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate Faculty are those persons with annual part-time contractual responsibilities at Trinity in either teaching or administration; however, they also have major commitments to another employer that prohibit them from full participation in daily campus life. They are appointments of the Dean.

Matthew Eppinette
Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD)​
Affiliate Professor of Bioethics
MBA, Louisiana Tech University
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena
PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena

Dr. Eppinette has a decade and a half of experience in the field of bioethics, including serving CBHD previously, from 2002-2007. He holds a PhD in Theology with concentrations in Christian Ethics and Theology & Culture from the Center for Advanced Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where he also earned an MA in Theology. He is a 2004 graduate of the MA Bioethics program and he has an MBA with concentrations in Quantitative Analysis and Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University. His undergraduate degree is in Business Management and Administration from Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Greg Forster
Affiliate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology
BA, University of Virginia
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, PhD, Yale University
PhD, Free University Amsterdam

Dr. Forster teaches theology and is a senior fellow at the Center for Transformational Churches at TEDS. In addition to his work at TEDS, Dr. Forster is the president of Karam Fellowship, a learning community of theological educators dedicated to theology for the life of the world, and senior editor of the peer-reviewed journal Faith & Flourishing. He serves as the chair of the Public Theology section of the Evangelical Theological Society and is an emeritus member of the board of Kenosha Christian Academy. He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus (Cambridge, 2005), The Contested Public Square (IVP, 2008), The Joy of Calvinism (Crossway, 2012), Joy for the World (Crossway, 2014) and The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy (Palgrave, 2019), as well as numerous scholarly and popular articles. He is the editor or co-editor of six books, including Faithfully Rendering God's Word (Credo, 2020).

James E. Gruenewald
Affiliate Professor of Counseling
BS, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
EdD, Northern Illinois University

Dr. Gruenewald is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in private practice at Faithlife Counseling in Arlington Heights, IL, with more than forty-four years of experience in individual, marital, family, and group counseling. He came to Trinity in 1996 as an affiliate adjunct faculty, where he taught in the Psychology Department at Trinity College for twelve years. In 2009, he became a full-time faculty in the Counseling Department at TEDS while still maintaining his practice. In 2018, he became and remains an Affiliate professor at TEDS. He is currently an elder in his church. He has been a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Counseling Association, the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, the American Association of Christian Counselors, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He has been married since 1979 and is the father of two sons, two grandsons, and one granddaughter. When it comes time for rest and rejuvenation, he spends time outdoors, particularly at the lake cabin he built in Wisconsin. Jogging, gardening, construction, and long walks with his wife are among his passions.

Bradley J. Gundlach
Affiliate Professor of Church History
Professor of History, Trinity International University
AB, Princeton University
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, PhD, University of Rochester

Dr. Gundlach specializes in American intellectual, cultural, and religious history and also enjoys teaching broadly in world civilization, the philosophy and methods of history, and church history – having recently taken Trinity College students to Europe for the Western Cultural Heritage class and taught Reformation History and Theology for the Ambex program in Germany. He serves as director of the division of Humanities and as book review editor for Fides et Historia, the journal of the Conference on Faith and History. Dr. Gundlach is the author of Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929, and is currently at work on a biography of Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield. Dr. Gundlach is the Director of the Division of Humanities.

Martin I. Klauber
Affiliate Professor of Church History
BA, State University of New York at Buffalo
MA, MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Dr. Klauber is a commercial banker and author of several scholarly works on post-Reformation theology. In addition to teaching regularly on Trinity’s campus, he frequently teaches at Trinity’s extension sites.

Peter T. Lee
Associate Director, Korea DMin
Affiliate Professor of Intercultural Studies
BS, Georgia Institute of Technology
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr. Lee is a missiologist who considers it his life mission to equip God's people to participate in God’s mission in the world by learning with the global church, influencing global leaders, and strategizing for global missions. He has three decades of professional and ministry experience in multicultural and intercultural settings around the world, including ten years in North Africa. Dr. Lee’s research and teaching interests include transformative intercultural relations, social scientific research methods, international migration, Muslims in the diaspora, immigrant congregations, and Christianity in Korea. 

Alice Ott
Affiliate Professor of the History of Mission and World Christianity
BGS, Ohio University
MDiv, PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr. Ott served as a missionary in Germany for twenty-one years. Her areas of expertise include German Pietism, Pietist missions, and the history of the missionary movement and world Christianity. She has published a religious history of a Pietist communal society, The Sunwoman in the Wilderness (2014), and contributed chapters to various academic volumes on Pietism. Likewise Dr. Ott has published several articles on the missionary movement in the journal Studies in World Christianity and in the volume Sixteenth Century Mission (2021). Her volume Turning Points in the Expansion of Christianity: From Pentecost to the Present appeared in 2021.

Rick Richardson
Affiliate Professor of Mission and Evangelism
BS, Lafayette College
MDiv, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr. Richardson is Associate Professor of Evangelism at Wheaton College and an associate evangelist with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.  He has served in campus ministry for 20 years, regularly speaking and ministering as an evangelist on campuses in many different parts of the country. He is also an ordained Anglican priest and has served as a pastor. 

Eric Rivera, 2022
Affiliate Professor of Pastoral Theology
BA, Moody Bible Institute
MDiv, PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr. Rivera has been a Pastor since 2008 and is currently the Lead Pastor at The Brook, a multiethnic church in Chicago that he and his team planted with the EFCA in 2013. Dr. Rivera is passionate about mobilizing the church to be on a mission in an urban context. He earned his PhD in Historical Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity and is the author of Christ is Yours (Lexham, 2019) and Unexpected Jesus: How the Resurrected Christ Finds Us, Meets Us, Heals Us (Lexham Press, 2022). He contributed the chapter “Planting a New Church” in the One Volume Seminary (Moody Publishers, 2022) and “Building up your Spouse” with his wife Erikah in The Story of Us: A Couples Devotional (FamilyLife, 2019). In addition to these, he has written “The First Mexican Protestant Loved the Bible” for Christianity Today (February 2019), “The Legacy of Scripture in the Latino(a) Protestant Church in America” for Church Leaders (September, 2021) and “Stay in Chicago” for Legacy Disciple (September 2018). He married his best friend Erikah in 2003, and together, they serve the local church and speak for FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember marriage getaways. They are parents to three amazing kids.

Gregory Waybright
Affiliate Professor of Pastoral Theology
President Emeritus
Diploma, Moody Bible Institute
BA, Wheaton College
MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
PhD, Marquette University

Dr. Waybright was President of Trinity International University from 1995-2007. Upon his departure, he re-entered the pastorate as Senior Pastor of Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, CA. Most recently, Dr. Waybright was Interim Chaplain at Wheaton College from 2020-2022.