Dr. Will Willimon Visits New Jersey

Dr. Will Willimon will preach the morning message at Community Congregational Church in Short Hills on Sunday, October 26th at 10:30am. Visit www.CommunityChurch.org for directions.

As this year’s recipient of The Donald MacLeod/Short Hills Community Congregational Church Preaching Lectureship, Dr. Willimon will also deliver lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary on October 27th at 7pm, and October 28th at 3pm and 7pm. All lectures will be held in the Daniel J. Theron Assembly Room, in the Princeton Seminary Library.

The Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at the Divinity School, Duke University. He is recently retired after serving eight years as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church. For twenty years prior to the episcopacy, he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Willimon is a graduate of Wofford College (B.A., 1968), Yale Divinity School (M.Div., 1971) and Emory University (S.T.D., 1973). He is the author of sixty books. His “Worship as Pastoral Care” was selected as one of the ten most useful books for pastors in 1979 by the Academy of Parish Clergy. Over a million copies of his books have been sold. In 1996, an international survey conducted by Baylor University named him one of the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English-speaking world.

His articles have appeared in many publications including The Christian Ministry, Quarterly Review, Liturgy, Worship and Christianity Today. He is Editor-at-Large for The Christian Century. He has served as Editor and Expositor (with his wife, Patricia) for Abingdon’s International Lesson Annual. He has written curriculum materials and video for youth, young adults, and adults. His “Pulpit Resource” is used each week by over eight thousand pastors in the USA, Canada, and Australia. A 2005 study by the Pulpit and Pew Research Center found that Bishop Willimon is the second most widely read author by mainline Protestant pastors.