Richard Lischer

Richard Alan Lischer (born November 12, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American author, memoirist, preacher, practical theologian, and professor at Duke Divinity School.[1]

Duke Divinity School

After serving as a Lutheran pastor for nine years, Lischer joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School. He has been interviewed on topics ranging from church liturgy[2] to death,[3] commenting frequently in the New York Times. He has participated in multiple NPR interviews,[4] and in 2010 was a part of the PBS documentary "God in America," where he provides background for the episode on the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement.[5] He has also explored the interactions of preaching, politics, and literature, notably at Yale Divinity School in his Lyman Beecher Lectures on preaching and reconciliation, as well as in a prize-winning study of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America,[6] for which he was interviewed by Duke News in 2011.[7] He was one of two keynote speakers at the first international symposium on homiletics held at Heidelberg University.[8] In the classroom, he draws both on the church’s long tradition as well as the experience of contemporary preachers as resources for parish ministry.[9] In 2000, he inaugurated Duke Divinity School’s first chair in preaching. Lischer has preached all over the world, most notably at the Washington National Cathedral,[10] and regularly at Duke University Chapel.[11] He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and the recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award.[12]

Memoir

Although both a pastor and an academic, it is Lischer's recent memoir work that has received the most public attention. His first memoir is the story of his early ministry, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery,[13] and is set in middle-America in the early 1970s. It evokes the hidden dramas in a small country church and traces the painful learning curve of its inexperienced minister. Following the book’s publication in 2001, Lischer began a program of research and teaching in spiritual autobiography that has increasingly occupied the latter phases of his career. A second memoir, Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, commemorates his son, Adam, who died of cancer in 2005,[14] for which Lischer received attention in national and regional press.[3][15][16]

Personal life

Lischer is married to Tracy Kenyon Lischer, a lawyer in Durham, North Carolina. They have a daughter, Sarah, who teaches political science at Wake Forest University, and three grandchildren.

Publications

Lischer has published more than a dozen books, including The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching from Augustine to the Present, which was awarded "Best Book in Ministry/Leadership" by Christianity Today. He is also regularly published in The Christian Century.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty: Richard Lischer". Duke Divinity School.
  2. ↑ Articles by Richard Lischer (March 16, 2012). "Stripped bare: Holy Week and the art of losing". The Christian Century. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Good Friday, Easter Provide Everyday Lessons For Living, Say Christians Working With Death". Huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ The Tavis Smiley Show (January 20, 2003). "Sermons". NPR. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ ""God in America" Features Faculty | Duke Divinity School". Divinity.duke.edu. October 8, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ "King's statue a national challenge". www.ajc.com. August 25, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Office Hours with Richard Lischer on the Preaching of Martin Luther King Jr.". YouTube. January 18, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Societas Homiletica » History". 37.46.193.194. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Richard Lischer | August 18, 2006 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly". PBS. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Washington National Cathedral : Event Calendar". Nationalcathedral.org. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Holy Week Noon Service | Duke University Chapel". Chapel.duke.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  12. ↑ "About". Homiletics.org. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Review: Open Secrets: A Spiritual Journey Through a Country Church". Publishers Weekly. March 26, 2001.
  14. ↑ Neff, LaVonne (April 3, 2013). "Cross-shaped story". ReadPeriodicals.com.
  15. ↑ Shimron, Yonat (April 18, 2013). "Theologian Richard Lischer tries to make sense of his son's death". Religion News Service.
  16. ↑ "Theologian Tries to Make Sense of Son's Death". Charismanews.com. April 19, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  17. ↑ Books. "Articles by Richard Lischer". The Christian Century. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
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