Elisabeth Rain Kincaid: Wise & Courageous

Welcome to The Wise & Courageous Podcast, where we host conversations with women leaders about how they are seeking and engaging wisdom and courage in their leadership and work in this unique season.

“The caliber of my leadership depends upon the health and caliber of the rest of my life. I can’t show up for people unless I am in a good place personally to show up. There’s some humility with that. You can’t just run on fumes and coffee.” — Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, Associate Professor of Ethics, Faith and Culture and Director of the Institute of Faith and Learning at Baylor University, joins Nancy Pedulla on The Wise & Courageous Podcast for a conversation about leadership, ethics, and faith.

How might the unexpected career path result in a richness that is unique? Elisabeth starts the story of her journey by sharing that she went to law school because she did not enjoy middle school ministry. She shares the rich gifts of the indirect path to her current role, where she lives out her own leadership while teaching and researching about leadership and ethics, and cultivating leadership with faculty in a unique program. Elisabeth explores the value of integrity and the invitation to be an integrated person. We talk about the work of integrating work and family life. Listen for her invitation to be discerning what God is calling her to engage with during the last 20 years of her career in prayer and with others and for her “aha” moment when a trusted colleague asked her, “Why are you putting out the cookies?”

For the purposes of this podcast, we are defining leadership as the stewardship of people, culture and purpose, guiding and serving others toward a shared vision or outcomes.

Welcome to the conversation!

— Nancy Pedulla

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Dr. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid is associate professor of ethics, faith, and culture at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. She also serves as the Director of the Institute of Faith and Learning, where she works to develop programming that integrates Christian faith and academic excellence. She is also an Affiliate Professor of Management at the Hankamer School of Business. Dr. Kincaid’s research focuses on the intersection of theological ethics, legal ethics and business ethics, virtue ethics, natural law, early modern theology, and theology of work and vocation. Dr. Kincaid recently published Law From Below: How the Thought of Francisco Suárez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal Engagement (Georgetown University Press) which explores different models for Christian engagement with law. She is currently working on a second monograph exploring the relationship between business ethics, theology, and human flourishing (under contract with Georgetown University Press). She has published broadly including in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, The Scottish Journal of Theology, The Journal of Moral Theology, Political Theology, The Journal of Markets and Morality, and Christian Scholar’s Review, as well as contributing chapters to numerous edited volumes. Dr. Kincaid is a frequent invited speaker at academic campuses, churches, and retreats.

She previously held the Legendre-Soulé Chair of Business Ethics and served as the Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her past academic positions include Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the Aquinas Institute of Theology. She is currently a Research Fellow for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics. She has also been a Pedagogy Fellow at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.

Prior to entering the academy, Elisabeth worked as an attorney, in private equity, and as a campus minister for graduate students and faculty in Dallas, Texas with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship GFM. She and her husband Thomas have two children.