About the Author
Thomas H. Troeger, J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professorof Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, Yale University
Professor Troeger has written twenty books in the fieldsof preaching, poetry, hymnody and worship, is a frequent contributor to journalsdedicated to these topics, and is a monthly columnist for LectionaryHomiletics and The American Organist. His most recent books include Wonder Reborn: preaching onhymns, music and poetry;
God, You Made All Things for Singing: Hymn texts, anthems,and poems for a new millennium; So that All Might Know: Preaching thatEngages the Whole Congregation (with Edward Everding); Preaching Whilethe Church Is Under Reconstruction; Above the Moon Earth Rises: HymnTexts, Anthems and Poems for a New Creation,
He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in thehymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems.For three years Professor Troeger hosted the Season of Worship broadcast forCokesbury, and he has led conferences and lectureships in worship and preachingthroughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, andAfrica. Ordained in thePresbyterian Church in 1970 and in the Episcopal Church in 1999, he is duallyaligned with both traditions. He servesas national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists and is a formerpresident of the Academy of Homiletics (the North American guild of scholars inhomiletics) and the immediate past President of Societas Homiletica (theinternational guild of scholars in homiletics).
B.A. Yale University;B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T.D. Dickinson College; D.D. Virginia Theological Seminary. Ordained as a priest in the EpiscopalChurch and as a minister in the Presbyterian Church.