Cross-Appointed Senior Faculty for the Doctoral Program in Homiletics

Seconded to Toronto School of Theology (Knox and Trinity Colleges) 
from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary

B.A. Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), 1983
M.Div. The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, 1986
M.A. The Graduate School, Vanderbilt University 1993
Ph.D. The Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, 1997 (Homiletics and the Christian Scriptures)

Ordained 1988

Areas of teaching:  
Homiletics, Homiletic Theory, Theology of Preaching, Biblical Exegesis for Preaching, Hermeneutics, Homiletic Analysis

Course Syllabi: 
"Theologies of Preaching" (Knox:  Fall, 2010) and "Preaching Apocalyptic Texts" (Trinity:  Winter, 2011)

Special Interests:
Empowering students to preach the gospel of God's mercy and justice.
Preparing future homileticians to reflect theologically on contemporary homiletic theory and practice for the sake of the church and the world.
Encouraging students to study the Bible more deeply for the sake of contemporary proclamation of the gospel.

Recent Publications:

Books

• Kairos Preaching:  Speaking Gospel to the Situation with Robert Kelly (Minneapolis:  Augsburg Fortress, 2009).
• New Proclamation: Year C, 2007, Easter through Pentecost, co-author, (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006).
• Preaching Luke-Acts, co-authored with Dr. Günter Wasserberg, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001).
• Preaching in the New Creation: The Promise of New Testament Apocalyptic Texts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999).

Chapters, Articles, and Presentations

• "Schola Prophetarum: Prophetic Preaching Toward a Public, Prophetic Church," Homiletic 34:1 (2009), 12-21.

• “Barack Obama’s Message of Hope in the ‘Future Tense’:  Rhetorical Reflections toward a North American Homiletical Public Theology,” Papers of the Annual Meeting, Academy of Homiletics, 2009, 154-60.  

• “Preaching the Bible and the News,” panel presentation at the Hermeneutics and Bible Study work group, the Academy of Homiletics , Washington , DC , December 4, 2009.

• "Apocalyptic," in The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008), 67-69.
• with Robert Kelly, "Preaching the Wedding Sermon: Toward a Theology of Marriage for the Pulpit," The Clergy Journal LXXXIV:5 (March, 2008), 43-44.
• "Homiletical Exegesis and Theologies of Revelation: Biblical Preaching from Text to Sermon in an Age of Methodological Pluralism," in Systematisch Praktisch: Festschrift für Reiner Preul (Eds. W. Härle, B-M Haese, K. Hansen, and E. Herms; Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag, 2005), 449-461.

Church Involvement:
David is a clergy member of the Dakotas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He is an active participant at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Kitchener, ON, preaches at churches throughout North America, and has offered workshops for pastors and theological students in Canada, the U.S., Germany, and Peru.