May 28, 2008

The Rev. Dr. Fred B. Craddock preaches
at the 2008 PTS Commence exercise.

Craddock Chair Established at PTS

One of the highlights of the 2008 Centennial Celebration and Commencement Exercises at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the public announcement of the creation of the Fred B. Craddock Chair in Preaching at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Rev. Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt, who was promoted to Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at PTS, effective July 1, 2008, is the first recipient of the chair.

“Dr. Northcutt is widely recognized as an outstanding preacher and teacher of preachers. I am confident that she will continue to serve the church she loves and bring honor to PTS by illuminating the intrinsic interconnections between prayer, study, and public practice,” said Don A. Pittman, vice president for Academic Affairs, Dean, and the William Tabbernee Professor of the History of Religions.

Northcutt began teaching at PTS as an adjunct in 1995 and in 2000, she joined the full time faculty. Her pastoral experience includes serving as pastor at First Christian Church in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, and as associate minister at Harvard Avenue Christian Church, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Northcutt received her Doctor of Ministry in Homiletics from Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Missouri in December 2005; her Master of Divinity from the University of Chicago in 1988 and a Master of Music in Piano at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma in 1982. In 1979, Northcutt received a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.