Speakers Bureau
Memphis Theological Seminary has faculty and staff that are experts in their respective fields. They are well known and sought-after for their insight and various degrees of depth. This page is dedicated to featuring our faculty and staff. Here you will be able to find your next speaker for your upcoming event, panel, conference or retreat.
Jody Hill, D.Min.
President
Best Selling Author of “38: The Chucky Mullins Effect”, Biblical Leadership, Preaching, Lecturer
Carmichael D. Crutchfield, D.Min., Ph.D.
Clara Scott Chair of Church and Ministry
Dr. Crutchfield is also the Professor of Christian Education, Spiritual Formation, and Youth Ministry.
Research interests include Human Development, the Human Brain, Teaching and Learning issues, the Formation and Nurture of Christians, Contemplative Pedagogy, African American Adolescent Males, Discipleship, and Critical Pedagogy.
Christy S. Woodbury-Moore, D.Min.
Assistant Professor of Spiritual Formation
Dr. Woodbury-Moore is also the Director of Supervised Ministry.
Research interests include formation of the seminary and post-seminary student, womanist theology, womanist ways of being, practical theology, women in ministry, and spiritual formation of the adult learner.
Mitzi L. Minor, Ph.D.
Professor of New Testament
Research interests includes the intersection of the New Testament with our own spiritual journeys.
She teaches courses at MTS in the Gospels, Romans, the Corinthian letters, Revelation, NT Greek, and feminist NT studies. She’s written two books and numerous articles on Mark and has lectured on the Second Gospel twice.
Janel Kragt Bakker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mission and Culture
Research interests include partnership-based approaches to grassroots mission efforts, the religious dimensions of bereavement, and the intersection of globalization and religion, and the restructuring of American Christianity.
Tricia Vesely, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Christian Ethics
Research interests focus on the intersection between biblical studies and ethics with a particular concentration on character-based ethical approaches and the wisdom texts of the Hebrew Bible. Her additional interests lie in gender and religion, narrative ethics, and biblical languages.
Martha Lyle Ford, D.Min.
Director of the Center for Faith and Imagination
Dr. Ford also heads the Green Seminary at MTS.
Research interests include eco-theology and food justice.
Michael Qualls, D.Min.
Director of the Cumberland Presbyterian House of Studies
Dr. Qualls is also the Director of the Program of Alternate Studies and an Adjunct Professor of Evangelism
Research interests include church planting, evangelism, helping congregations thrive, the Rural Church, and the intersection of Evangelical and Progressive Christianity.