Ray A. Owens

Ray is the senior pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to his parish work, Ray serves as the affiliate assistant professor of Ethics and Black Church Studies at the Phillips Theological Seminary and has taught religious studies courses at Oklahoma State University and Texas Christian University. Ray serves as a board member for Tulsa Educare and The George Kaiser Family Foundation and is a trustee for Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the founder and board member of the Met Cares Foundation, a nonprofit facilitating the development of high performing schools in the north Tulsa community.

Ray earned his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He later received the cum laude distinction for his doctoral dissertation and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Religion and Society from Princeton Theological Seminary.