Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence set to preach at Distinguished Preacher series on the Florida Dunnam campus

Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence will preach during the Distinguished Preacher series on the Florida Dunnam campus on March 25, 2010.

The Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence has become a leading voice on the subject of homiletics as a speaker and author. A frequent guest preacher at festivals and conferences, Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., where she teaches courses on preaching and youth.

Florence’s research interests are in the areas of hermeneutics and pastoral formation. She is interested in helping preachers succeed in their efforts to encourage ways that bring youth into the ministry of proclamation. Her work has also focused on the areas of testimony and feminist homiletics.

Her sermons have been published in many books and journals. Florence’s book Preaching as Testimony (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) examines biblical and theological perspectives on testimony and seeks to establish the historical and contemporary validity of women’s preaching and to introduce testimony to a new generation of preachers and teachers. Florence also is the editor of Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers by Walter Brueggemann (Fortress Press, 2004).

She earned her Ph.D. and M.Div. degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and her B.A. from Yale University. Florence began her career as Associate Pastor for Youth and Young Adults at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, Minn. In the mid-1990s she taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, and she has been a faculty member of Columbia Theological Seminary since 1998.

Florence her and husband, the Rev. David Carter Florence, have two sons.

Other scheduled preachers include:

Bishop Mike Watson, North Georgia conference - March 23

Bishop David Kendall, Free Methodist Church - April 22