Dr. Joel B. Green, is Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies and Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Joel B. Green has been associate dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies since 2008 and professor of New Testament interpretation at Fuller since 2007; prior to that, he served for ten years at Asbury Theological Seminary as professor of New Testament interpretation, as dean of the School of Theology, and as provost. Green has written or edited 25 books, including four that have won awards: In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem (with Stuart Palmer, 2005), Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology (with Paul J. Achtemeier and Marianne Meye Thompson, 2001), The Gospel of Luke (1997), and Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (with Scot McKnight, 1992). Among his most recent publications are 1 Peter, in the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary (2007), Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture (2007), and Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (2008). He is New Testament editor of the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols., 2006). He has written scores of essays and reviews as well.

Green has 12 years of pastoral ministry and more than 20 years of seminary teaching experience in multiple countries. He is editor of the Journal of Theological Interpretation and serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Testament Studies, Theology and Science, and Science & Christian Belief, as well as such book series as the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary, Studies in Theological Interpretation, and Kingswood Books. Green also chairs the board of the Society of Biblical Literature and convenes its Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Scripture Group.

Bishop William H. Willimon is resident bishop of the Birminham Area of The United Methodist Church.

The Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon was elected in July 2004 as Bishop of The United Methodist Church. He leads the 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors in North Alabama. For twenty years 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 has served as pastor of churches in Georgia and South Carolina. For four years, beginning in 1976, he served as Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Worship at Duke Divinity School, teaching courses in liturgics and homiletics and served as Director of the Ministerial Course of Study School at Duke, and Presiding Minister in the Divinity School Chapel. When he returned to the parish ministry in 1980, he was Visiting Associate Professor of Liturgy and Worship at Duke for three years. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Westminster College (DD, 1990), Wofford College (D. Hum.L., 1994), Lehigh University (DD, 2000), Centre College (DD, 2001), LaFayette College (DD, 2002), Colgate University (DD, 2003), Campbell University (DD, 2003), LaGrange College (DD, 2005), Albright College (DD, 2006), and Birmingham-Southern College (DD, 2006). In 1992, he was named as the first Distinguished Alumnus of Yale Divinity School. He also serves on the faculties of Birmingham-Southern College as Visiting Distinguished Professor and as Visiting Research Professor at Duke Univeristy Divinity School.

He is the author of nearly 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.

Bishop Willimon has given lectures and taught courses at many pastors' schools and at colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. These include the Belden Lectures at Harvard as well as lectureships at Princeton, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine, and Oxford. In 1998, he served on the theological faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany and in 1991, he was Distinguished Guest Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. His books have been translated into eight languages.

He has served as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, Wofford College; chairperson of the University Council Committee for the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale; and on the Board of Overseers for Memorial Church, Harvard University, and the Boards of Emory, Birmingham-Southern, and Huntingdon Colleges. He serves on the editorial boards of The Christian Century, The Christian Ministry, Preaching, The Wittenburg Door, and Leadership. 

Dr. Bill T. Arnold is Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, William Edmond Conger, Jr. Professor of Academic Leadership, Director of Hebrew Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.

Dr. Andy Johnson is Professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Dr. Sarah Heaner Lancaster is Professor, Werner Chair of Theology at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio 

Dr. Robert W. Wall is Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington.

 

Dr. Laceye Warner is Associate Dean for Academic Formation and Programs, Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies, Royce and Jane Reynolds Teaching Fellow at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.

 

Dr. Karen Strand Winslow is Professor of Old Testament in C.P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California.