Nancy Lammers Gross, MDiv, PhD, is the Arthur Sarell Rudd Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry and the Director of the Joe R. Engle Institute for Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned both her MDiv and PhD from Princeton Seminary. A member of the Academy of Homiletics, her areas of teaching interest include speech communication with special interest in assisting women to claim their voices, preaching, especially preaching from the Apostle Paul, and worship.

An ordained Presbyterian minister, she has served churches in California and New Jersey, holding membership in the Presbytery of the Coastlands. She is the author of If You Cannot Preach Like Paul (Eerdmans, 2002), and Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching (Eerdmans, 2017). Nancy is the mother of two amazing daughters, grandmother to Aurora and Konrad, and joyfully lives with the consequences of her current canine choice.

Her canine, Buttercup