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Director of the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
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.
