Nathaniel Van Yperen

Religion Department Chair

Dr. Nathaniel Van Yperen (M.Div.; Th.M.; Ph.D. Religion and Society, 2013) currently serves as chair of the Religion Department at The Pennington School in Pennington, NJ. After six years of undergraduate and graduate teaching in Minnesota, Dr. Van Yperen moved back to New Jersey and into independent school education. At Pennington, Dr. Van Yperen teaches courses in religion, ethics, and literature in the upper school. He has led backpacking expeditions with Pennington students to the St. Regis Canoe Wilderness in the Adirondacks and the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. He is the author of numerous creative nonfiction essays, academic essays, and a book on ecological ethics, Gratitude for the Wild: Christian Ethics in the Wilderness.