Talk:Richard F. Ward

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Talk: Richard F. Ward

For the wikipedia admins: this article has been written about an individual known across the country, an accomplished scholar/writer and academic who has published widely. Furthermore I found many bios in wikipedia with less notable individuals than he. His article Mourning at Eastertide at http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=338 was viewed 8,488 times.

Richard F. Ward's book Speaking from the Heart: Preaching with Passion was cited 11 times on Google Scholar. Speaking of the Holy- cited 5 times, Craddock Stories cited 4 times, His dissertation: Pauline Voice and Presence was cited 7 times, and on and on. One of the criteria for a scholar is that he/she hold a chair. Richard F. Ward held the first chair ever in communication arts at Yale. And has just been awarded the Fred B. Craddock chair at Phillips Theological School. I will continue to find more articles and sources to verify his notability however, I feel there is a bit of redundancy in this whole process that seems nonsensical. Also I don't know how you can seriously question Richard F. Ward's scholarship and not question why Donald E. Messer has his own entry, with its lack of citations and his apparent lack of notability except perhaps among a few local people.(Browneyed bandit (talk) 08:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC))

OMG! Richard Ward is like totally awesome. I have read all of his books. Speaking of the Holy changed my life. (216.241.179.2 (talk) 19:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC))