William H. Willimon

Bishop in the United Methodist Church
Professor of Christian Ministry
Writer and Preacher

Born in 1946 in South Carolina, William H. Willimon is the author of over fifty books, a retired bishop in the United Methodist Church, a professor of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School, and an editor-at-large of the Christian Century. Willimon received his master’s from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate from Emory University. He served as dean of Duke Chapel at Duke University for twenty years. He has taught in Australia, Germany, Singapore, and New Zealand, and his books have been used in seminaries around the world. One survey of pastors ranked him one of the “twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world,” and another found him one of the two most frequently read writers by pastors in mainline Protestantism, along with Henri Nouwen. Willimon’s books include Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (with Stanley Hauerwas) and, most recently, Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love (2016) and Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Confronting Racism through Preaching (2017).

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Alien Citizens

William H. Willimon

The most revolutionary political statement we can make is that Jesus reigns; that God, not nations, rules the world: “All political, all social, all educational, all human problems are solved in a concrete way by the rulership of Christ.”

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