Dale P. Andrews, the distinguished professor of homiletics, social justice, and practical theology at Vanderbilt University, will serve as the 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Program keynote speaker during the Jan. 16 program starting at noon in Whitley Auditorium.
This campus-wide event will focus on the theme of “His Past. Your Future. One Dream.”
Andrews joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion in 2010. Previously he served on the faculty of Boston University School of Theology as the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology.
Andrews earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford and has conducted two international study tours in Guatemala and Brazil. An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Andrews has served AME Zion churches in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Andrews has received numerous fellowships and awards for his studies. In addition to multiple chapters in diverse edited volumes and journal articles, he is the author of Practical Theology for Black Churches: Bridging Black Theology and African American Folk Religion (Westminster John Knox-WJK Press, 2002). He also co-authored Listening to Listeners: Homiletical Case Studies (Chalice Press, 2004) and New Proclamation: Advent through Holy Week, Year A, 2004-2005 (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2004), and is coeditor of a multivolume lectionary commentary series, Preaching God’s Transforming Justice (WJK Press, 2011, 2012, 2013).
He formerly served as co-editor to the journal Family Ministry and now serves as co-editor of the journal Homiletic.
The program will also recognize the winners of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Essay Contest.
This event is sponsored by the Multicultural Center.