Northcutt named recipient of Fred B. Craddock Chair in Preaching
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Dr. William Tabbernee (left), president of PTS, and the Rev. Dr. Fred B. Craddock (center) congratulate the Rev. Dr. Kay Northcutt (right) who has recently been named the first incumbent of the Fred B. Craddock Chair in Preaching at PTS.
Northcutt Named Craddock Chair
The Rev. Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt has been named the first incumbent of the newly established Fred B Craddock Chair in Preaching at Phillips Theological Seminary, where on July 1, 2008 she was promoted to be associate professor of preaching and worship. Seminary president William Tabbernee made the announcement in May on the eve of the seminary’s 101st graduation, at which Dr. Craddock spoke.
“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 drawing the connections 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. 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.
The Rev. Dr. Fred Craddock is the director of the Craddock Center in Cherry Log, Georgia. Craddock, who is both an alumnus of Phillips as well as a former faculty member, is one of the best-known preachers in the English-speaking world, as well as one of the most influential teachers of preachers in the last fifty years.