Luke A. Powery
Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics
Department of Practical Theology
113 Templeton Hall
Phone: 609.497.7929
Fax: 609.924.2973
Email: luke.powery@ptsem.edu

Luke A. Powery is the Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and his Th.D. through Emmanuel College, University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. His dissertation was titled “The Holy Spirit and African-American Preaching.”  His academic interests are located at the intersection of pneumatology, preaching, worship, speech performance studies, and culture, particularly expressions of the African diaspora. His courses include an exploration of the relationship between the Holy Spirit and preaching, and the connection between corporate worship practices and social witness in the world. A member of the Academy of Homiletics and the American Academy of Religion, he was nurtured in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition, ordained by the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and has served in an ecumenical capacity in churches throughout Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 

“Holy Spirit/Passion,” New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, eds. Paul Wilson, Jana Childers, Cleophus J. LaRue, and John Rottman (Abingdon Press, forthcoming)
“Postcolonial Criticism,” New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, eds. Paul Wilson, Jana Childers, Cleophus J. LaRue, and John Rottman (Abingdon Press, forthcoming)
“Exegetical Essay on Psalm 20,” Psalms for Preaching and Worship: A Lectionary Commentary, eds. Roger Van Harn and Brent A. Strawn (Wm. B. Eerdmans, forthcoming)