Sally Brown
Sally Brown is the Elizabeth M. Engle Professor of Preaching and Worship Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She is the author of Sunday’s Sermon for Monday’s World: Preaching to Shape Daring Witness and Crosstalk: Preaching Redemption Here and Now and the co-author of Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place.
Jana Childers
Jana Childers, PhD, is Professor Emerita at San Francisco Theological Seminary, where she also served as Dean. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on preaching, including Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre and the award-winning Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process.
Lincoln Galloway
Lincoln Galloway is the K. Morgan Edwards Associate Professor of Homiletics and Coordinator of the Mentoring DMin Program at Claremont School of Theology. Raised on the Caribbean island of Montserrat within the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas, Dr. Galloway is an elder in The United Methodist Cal-Pac Annual Conference. He is the author of Freedom in the Gospel: Paul’s Exemplum in 1 Cor. 9 in Conversation with the Discourses of Epictetus and Philo.
Donna Giver-Johnston
Donna Giver-Johnston is the Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, where she has also taught several homiletics classes. She has a PhD from Vanderbilt University and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church and has more than 20 years of experience in pastoral ministry. She is the author of Claiming the Call to Preach: Four Female Pioneers of Preaching in Nineteenth-Century America; Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart; and co-author of For Such a Time as This.
Lucy Lind Hogan
Lucy Lind Hogan is Hugh LatimerElderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship Emerita at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D. C. Ordained in the Episcopal Church, Lucy has taught at Wesley since 1987. She received her M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Maryland. Her books include Graceful Speech: An Invitation to Preaching, The Six Deadly Sins of Preaching: Becoming Responsible for the Faith We Proclaim, and Just in Time! Lenten Services.
J. Dwayne Howell
Dwayne Howell is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Hebrew at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1985 and has over 30 years of preaching experience in the local church. He has had the opportunity to teach Preaching and has edited three books on preaching. His most recent book is As You Go, Remember: Selected Sermons of John R. Claypool (2025).
Mary Lin Hudson
Mary Lin Hudson is the Professor Emeritus of Homiletics and Liturgics at Memphis Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister with the Missouri Mid-South Conference of the United Church of Christ. She received an MDiv from Memphis Theological Seminary and earned a PhD from Vanderbilt University. She is the co-author of Saved from Silence: Finding Women’s Voice in Preaching and has authored many book chapters and journal articles.
David Jacobsen
David Schnasa Jacobsen is Bishops Scholar Emeritus in Homiletics and Preaching at Boston University School of Theology. He earned an M.A., MDiv, and PhD from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Jacobsen was a visiting professor at the University of Kiel in Germany and was the Professor of Homiletics at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary and the Toronto School of Theology in Canada. He, along with Alyce McKenzie, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Homiletics in 2025. Dr. Jacobsen is a frequent lecturer, workshop presenter, and preacher. He has authored and edited 10 books, as well as numerous book chapters and scholarly articles.
Alyce McKenzie
Alyce McKenzie is the founder and former director of the Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence. She is the LeVan Professor Emerita of Preaching and Worship at Perkins School of Theology. Ordained as an elder, she is a frequently featured preacher, Bible study leader and teacher at workshops, conferences, and worship services both in Texas and throughout the country. Dr. McKenzie received her BA in the History of Religions from Bryn Mawr College, her Master of Divinity degree from the Divinity School of Duke University, and her Ph.D. in Homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary. Over the course of her career, McKenzie has authored 11 books, along with numerous articles and scholarly chapters.
Hank Langknecht
Hank Langknecht is a recently retired ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He served congregations in Ohio, Ontario, and Virginia, and for seventeen years was the Haman-Pfahler Professor of Preaching at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.
Marvin A. McMickle
Dr. Marvin A. McMickle graduated from Aurora University with a B.A. in Philosophy and a Doctor of Divinity. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Case Western Reserve University, and the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Payne Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1973 at Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City. Dr. McMickle was the Professor of Homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary from 1996 to 2011. He served as the 12th President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School from July 2011 to June 2019. He is the author of 18 books and dozens of articles.
Craig Satterlee
Craig Satterlee is a preacher, teacher, scholar, and minister of Word and Sacrament who has served as pastor, professor, dean, and bishop. Dr. Satterlee served as bishop of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and taught preaching at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of ten books and numerous articles in both scholarly and ecclesiastical journals.
David Stark
Dr. David Stark is the Director of the Kerygma Initiative and Instructor in Homiletics at Palmer Theological Seminary. Dr. Stark served as assistant professor of homiletics and co-director of the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center at the University of the South, the Styberg Teaching Fellow at Garrett-Evagelical Theological Seminary, and visiting instructor at Universität Leipzig, Germany. He serves as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Homiletics and is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church. He is the author of Singing and Suffering with the Servant: Second Isaiah as Guide for Preaching the Old Testament and Preaching that Confronts Confederate Monuments: Religion, Anti-Racism, and United States Politics.
Paul Wilson
The Rev. Dr. Paul Scott Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto, and author of many books on preaching, including The Four Pages of the Sermon, and Setting Words on Fire: Putting God at the Center of the Sermon. He has edited fifteen volumes; he lectures, teaches, and preaches widely throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada; and is married to Deanna, who is also ordained.