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Nancy Lammers Gross, MDiv, PhD, is the Director of the Joe R. Engle Institute for Preaching and the Arthur Sarell Rudd Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry 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.
Abigail Visco Rusert, is the Associate Dean of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary, which houses the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching. She is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has held a variety of roles in higher education and ministry, including serving as the Director of the Institute for Youth Ministry, an associate pastor, youth director, chaplain, and camp counselor. Abigail is passionate about researching and designing programs that cultivate Christian leaders and transform faith-based communities. She collaborates with faculty to lead and operationalize projects that foster changemaking in the academy and the church. A graduate of Valparaiso University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and a current PhD student at Notre Dame of Maryland University, she is the co-author of the book Delighted: What Teenagers are Teaching the Church About Joy. Abigail serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Springtide Research Institute. Abigail and her husband, Thomas, have three kids—Dorothy, Solveig, and Frank—and live in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Abigail serves as a small group leader at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Rev. Casey Thornburgh Sigmon, MDiv, PhD, is the Associate Professor of Preaching & Worship and Director of the Pause/Play Center for Preachers (a Compelling Preaching Initiative of the Lilly Endowment) at Saint Paul School of Theology. She earned her MDiv from McCormick Theological Seminary and her PhD from Vanderbilt. Her latest book, Engaging the Gadfly: Reflective Online, Hybrid, and In-Person Preaching in a Digital Age, offers a practical theological framework for preachers discerning how to faithfully navigate technocultural shifts brought about by social media and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to being a member of the Academy of Homiletics, Sigmon is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy. Her research in this area is on progressive modern and contemporary worship music on the margins of the CCM industry. At Saint Paul, she supervises the specialization in Modern Worship Music. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Sigmon has served churches in Tennessee, Kansas, and Missouri.
The Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D., is an ordained minister whose calling is rooted in the joy-bringing, justice-rooted ministry of Jesus Christ. A native of Atlanta, GA, Dr. Wilkes received his call to a preaching ministry at the age of 15 while serving in the auxiliary ministries of Zion Hill Baptist Church. Dr. Wilkes was licensed to preach the Gospel as a student at Hampton University, where, as a pre-college student, he co-organized a campus wide Bible Study to provide an interactive format for discussing Scripture and everyday life. At the age of 26, Dr. Wilkes was ordained to Christian ministry in the National Baptist Convention at Zion Hill Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Aaron Parker. Dr. Wilkes is a proud graduate of Hampton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, where he received the Elder Garnett Hawkins award for Academic Excellence and The City University of New York Graduate Center where he received his Ph.D. in political science.
Dr. Wilkes is the co-lead pastor of The Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to Double Love, he served on the pastoral staff of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York, under the leadership of Revs. Dr. Floyd and Elaine Flake. In that capacity, he founded and led the Micah 6:8 social justice and advocacy ministry and was appointed co-pastor to Young Adults. In 2022, Dr. Wilkes was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. His work and voice have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Sojourners, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News and in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ 4-part PBS documentary, The Gospel.
Dr. Wilkes served as the Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute, founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of the Institute for Christian Socialism. He is the author of Freedom Notes: Reflections on Faith, Justice, and the Possibility of Democracy; co-author of Psalms for Black Lives; and the author of Plenty Good Room: Co-reating an Economy of Enough for All. He is the proud husband of Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes.
Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes is a public theologian, author, and innovation strategist redefining how faith, media, and culture shape the public square. As Director of the Technology, Innovation & Digital Engagement Lab at Union Theological Seminary and founding co-lead pastor of The Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn, she stands at the forefront of a new era of spiritual leadership. Dr. Gabby is the co-author of the best-selling book, Psalms for Black Lives: Reflections for the Work of Liberation and a national voice on how theology can inform justice, creativity, and community building. Her work has been featured in Essence, Forbes, The New York Times, and PBS’s GOSPEL with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A graduate of Duke, Yale, NYU, and Hampton University, Dr. Gabby embodies transformative, justice-centered leadership rooted in love and imagination. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the Board President of Yale Divinity School Alumni Association, a member of the prestigious Morehouse College MLK Board of Preachers and the Chaplain for the North Atlantic Chapter of the Hampton University Alumni Association.
Michael A. Brothers, MDiv, ThM, PhD, is the Associate Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his MA from Northwestern University, and MDiv, ThM, and PhD from Princeton Seminary. His teaching and research interests include the relationship between performance studies, aesthetics, narrative, and preaching. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he served a congregation for seven years in Danville, Kentucky, where he also was the chaplain of Centre College.
Rev. Dr. Courtney V. Buggs is Director of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric and Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary (CTS), located in Indianapolis, Indiana. She earned a PhD in Religion from Emory University, focused on Homiletics; a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology with a Certificate in Women’s Studies; a Master of Public Administration from University of Oklahoma; and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Louisiana Tech University.
Dr. Buggs’ research interests center on ecumenical practices of sacred proclamation, both inside and outside the pulpit; womanist practices in religion; and liberative teaching practices. She teaches courses on various aspects of preaching, pedagogy, women in ministry, and learning in community. Dr. Buggs has published in several academic journals and writes for the Working Preacher, an online worship resource. Her upcoming book project draws attention to occasional preachers and how they navigate the anxiety associated with preaching infrequently. In addition to teaching and writing, she is an academic advisor to masters and doctoral students, and is committed to preserving the African American preaching tradition.
Dr. Buggs is ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA and has served congregations in the United States and abroad, ministering across denominations. She is an active preacher, teacher, and workshop leader, with a particular interest in developing associate and staff ministers. Prior to entering higher education, she was an active-duty Air Force officer, serving as an Air Battle Manager and Airborne Mission Crew Commander. She retired from active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel, after almost 22 years of service. She has been at Christian Theological Seminary for six years.
Rev. Dr. David G. Latimore serves as Director of the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he leads efforts to connect the Seminary’s academic resources with the prophetic, theological, and social justice traditions of the Black Church—supporting the formation of emerging leaders, cultivating innovative scholarship, and addressing urgent challenges facing Black communities and congregations.
He brings more than two decades of senior pastoral leadership, most recently as the sixth Senior Pastor of Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to entering ministry, Dr. Latimore held a distinguished career in investment management and economic development, including service as President and CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), advancing inclusive economic development in under-resourced urban communities. His public service includes founding membership in the African American Clergy Coalition, chaplaincy at the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center, and leadership as chair of a local Black Chamber of Commerce chapter.
Dr. Latimore holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, a D.Min. in Homiletics from McCormick Theological Seminary (where he received the John Randall Hunt Prize), and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School.
He writes and lectures widely on liberative homiletics and theology, the Black church, and the ways economic ideologies shape ecclesial identity and public witness. His forthcoming monograph, The Liberative Homiletic: Liberating Lazarus, is a constructive work in homiletical theology that reads John 11 alongside African American ecclesial experience to theorize a “liberative homiletic”—a preaching practice that integrates rigorous exegesis, political economy, and communal formation to address the challenges of the present.
He is the husband of Tammie Brown Latimore for over thirty-two years and the father of five young adults.
The Rev. Dr. Jess Winderweedle (she/her) serves as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and the Assistant Teaching Professor of Preaching and at Drew Theological School in Madison, NJ. Winderweedle received her PhD in Practical Theology (Homiletics) as well as her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. In her research, she explores the craft of preaching through the lenses of identity, embodiment, performance studies, and queer theory and theologies. A sought-after guest preacher, Winderweedle is an ordained elder in the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. She also serves as the program coordinator for the Expanding the Pulpit program, a Lilly-funded initiative of the Presbytery of Philadelphia that offers cohort-based enrichment for both clergy and lay preachers.
Sunggu A. Yang, PhD, is Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Ministries at George Fox University, where he also serves as Chair of the University Cornerstone Core and Director of the Margaret Fell Scholars Program. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he holds PhD from Vanderbilt University, STM from Yale Divinity School, MDiv from Emory University, and BA from Yonsei University in Korea. Dr. Yang is the author of several books including Preaching Philosophy: French Thought for Gospel Proclamation (co-author), Digital Homiletics: The Theology and Practice of Online Preaching, Arts and Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the Twenty-First Century, and King’s Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm. He also serves as founder and general editor of The Journal of Asian American Theological Forum.
Martin Tel is the C. F. Seabrook Director of Music at Princeton Theological Seminary where he directs the seminary choirs, facilitates the music ministry for daily worship, and lectures in the area of church music. He served as senior editor of Psalms for All Season: A Complete Psalter for Worship (Faith Alive, 2012). He also served on the editorial committees which produced a new hymnal for the Christian Reformed Church and Reformed Church in America denominations, Lift Up Your Hearts (Faith Alive, 2013) and the Spanish-English bilingual hymnal, Santo, Santo, Santo / Holy, Holy, Holy (GIA, 2019).
