As of fall 2025, Pedrito Maynard-Reid, professor of biblical studies and missiology, has returned to the classroom, full time.
For the last 27 years, Maynard-Reid has been serving at Walla Walla University in a part-time administrative and professorial role. Throughout his career, he has taken on many other similarly divided positions, never fully leaving teaching. He said, “I've never left the classroom because my first love is being with students.”
The first eight years of Maynard-Reid’s career at WWU was spent as a full-time professor, “and it was glorious!” He has been teaching for nearly 60 years now, and with the prospect of retirement coming into view, he wishes to end his career—whenever that may arise—as a full-time professor.
In this position, Maynard-Reid is happy to have the time to take on more classes and other student-focused responsibilities, including sponsoring three university clubs. He is looking forward to teaching all of his courses and having the capacity to really delve into each of them.
In his lower-division classes, like Ministry of Jesus, Maynard-Reid looks forward to engaging with students who are just stepping into adulthood and helping them take on a new era of life. He is especially excited for his upper-division courses, like Christian Ethics, where he gets to show familiar concepts through untraditional lenses: “I love to see the sparkling eyes of my students when they learn something unexpected or see a whole new perspective, that really makes them go, ‘Wow!’”
As the new year has officially begun, Maynard-Reid is enjoying the fruits of his decision. He said he is happy to have the opportunity because, “I’m a pastor at heart. My students are my flock and my friends. They keep me going, and they keep me young.”
To learn more about the School of Theology, visit wallawalla.edu/theology.
Posted Oct. 15, 2025.
