Visiting Scholars

St. Peter's has been privileged to have a variety of Scholars visit St. Peter's.  Among the Visiting Scholars who have been to St. Peter's are:

  • The Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Green
  • Marcia Lehbar
  • Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi
  • Dr. Richard Hays
  • The Rev. Dr. Justyn terry
  • The Rev. Dr. Warren Smith
  • Friends of the Groom
  • Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright
  • The Rev. Dr. John Guest
  • American Boy Choir
  • Joe Harding

St. Peter's shield - small Upcoming Visiting Scholars

Efird, JamesDr. James M. (Mickey) Efird - November 16, 2008
Emeritus professor of biblical studies at Duke University
James Efird, a native of North Carolina, is emeritus professor of biblical studies at Duke University. Dr. Efird is a Presbyterian minister and received his Ph.D. from Duke where he taught from 1962 until his retirement in 2007. Dr. Efird has written 13 books among which is Revelation for Today. He will preach at 9:00 and 11:15. He will give two lectures, one in the morning and one in the evening on the theme “Interpreting the Revelation to John”.

St. Peter's shield - small Past Visiting Scholars

Past visiting scholars are listed in Alphabetical Order:

Edie, FrederickThe Rev. Dr. Fred Edie
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Christian Education;
Director, Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation
Dr. Fred Edie grew up on a small island near Savannah, GA. He is an ordained United Methodist pastor and has worked in youth ministry for more than 20 years. He serves as Faculty Director of the Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Christian Education at Duke Divinity School. Dr. Edie received his bachelors degree at Furman University in SC; his masters at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA ; and his PhD at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. His interests include youth ministry and youth culture, the role of liturgical practices in the formation of Christian Character, and the biology of embodiment in the equation of persons and communities. He is an avid cyclist and soccer enthusiast. He has two teenage children, Stewart and Rebekah, and is married to Alison.

Listen 03/04/07 - Sermon: God's Covenants (22:42, 6.6 MB)

Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Green
Canon Missioner of Holy Trinity Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
Keynote Speaker, Parish Retreat, April 27 & 28
Guest Homilist at Sunday Services, April 29
The Rev. Canon Dr. Green has served as Rector of St. Aldates’s Anglican Church in Oxford (England), taught evangelism and apologetics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Regent College, Vancouver and as an advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Canon Green is the author of over 30 books, the most recent of which is Sharing Your Faith With Friends and Family (2005).

Listen to his sermons given at St. Peters:

Listen 04/29/07, 9:00 am - 1 + God = Majority, 28:40, 8.3 MB
Listen 04/29/07, 11:15 am - Ambassadors for Jesus Christ, 32:32, 9.4 MB

Bishop John Guernsey
Bishop of the American Convocation of the Church of Uganda
Bishop John Guernsey was with us on Sunday, December 2, 2007 where he represented Bishop Jackson Nzerebende, our diocesan bishop. 

Listen 12/02/07, Sermon: The Purpose of the Law, 19:33
Listen 12/02/07, Teaching: Pray in the Promises of God, 46:16

The Rev. Dr. John Guest
Rector of Christ Church at Grove Farm, Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Born and raised in Oxford, England, The Rev. Dr. Guest responded to God’s call after hearing the American evangelist, Billy Graham, in London, in 1954. Author of ten books, he co-founded Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry and was a participant in the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelism and a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals. He founded the Coalition of Christian Outreach, an evangelistic organization employing approximately 150 staff on college campuses.Dr. Guest also co-founded the South American Missionary Society (1976), hosted a daily radio broadcast, "New Life in Christ", on WPIT-FM, Pittsburgh (1983-1990). He is presently heard on WORD radio (101.5 FM) weekdays at 10:30 am.

Listen 02/25/07 - Sermon: Kairos Time (22:36, 6.6 MB)
Listen 02/24/07 - Teaching: Missions for the Average Joe (48:41, 14.1 MB)

Richard B. Hays
George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School
Degrees: B.A., M.Div., Yale University; Ph.D., Emory University
Internationally acclaimed New Testament scholar and theologian Richard Hays was the Duke Visiting Scholar at St. Peter's on Sunday, March 26, 2006. He preached at both services and taught that evening on "The Art of Reading Scripture Faithfully." Dr. Hays was one of Father Eric Dudley’s most memorable professors at Yale, and is now a campus favorite at Duke’s School of Theology.

Listen to his teaching and sermon given at St. Peters:

Listen 03/26/06, 7:00 pm - Teaching: The Art of Reading Scripture Faithfully, 1:07:40, 19.4 MB
Listen 03/26/06, 9:00 am - Sermon: Saved by Grace, 22:04, 5.3 MB

Ian McCarthy
St. Peter's Seminarian Intern, Summer 2006
Ian McCarthy is a Trinity School for Ministry Seminary student who finished his second year of studies in May 2006. He was an active part of the St. Peter’s community during the summer of 2006, while doing his Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) requirement at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

Listen to his sermon:

Listen 7/02/06 - Be Generous, 11:51, 3.5 MB

Clockwise from top left: Fr. Eric Dudley, Bp. John Guernsey, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi
Clockwise from top left: Fr. Eric Dudley, Bp. John Guernsey, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi
Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi
Archbishop of the Church of Uganda
The Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Uganda, the Most Reverend Henry Luke Orombi, and the Right Reverend John Guernsey, offered a presentation on the current state of the Anglican Communion and took questions at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Tallahassee on Monday, September 17, 2007.

Listen 09/17/07, - A Conversation with Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, 1:10:45, 8.2 MB

Andrew Rowell
St. Peter's Duke Fellow, Summer 2006
Undergraduate degree from Duke University, Political Science and Creative Writing
Andrew worked in Washington D.C. as a speechwriter for the Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. He completed law school at The University of Virginia and was employed as a tax attorney in a large D.C. law firm. Andrew attended The Falls Church in the Washington area, where he headed up the college and young adult ministries. He returned to his alma mater,Duke, to enter their Divinity School and currently in his second year. He was the Duke Fellow for St. Peter’s in the Teaching Parishes Program, summer 2006.

Listen to his sermons given at St. Peters:

Listen 04/01/07 - The Story That Shapes Our Lives, 20:22, 6.0 MB
Listen 10/29/06 - Maturing in Christ, 19:17, 5.6 MB
Listen 07/30/06 - Prisoners of Christ, 25:18, 7.2 MB
Listen 07/09/06 - Prophetic Living, 19:37, 5.6MB

Smith, J. WarrenJ. Warren Smith
Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Duke Divinity School
J. Warren Smith, Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. Dr. Smith is also a United Methodist minister from the North Georgia Annual Conference. He lives in Durham with his wife, Kimberly Doughty who is a school social worker, and their children, Katherine and Thomas. His interests outside of Duke Divinity School include hiking, studying the American Civil War and 19th century British history, and ACC basketball (men’s and women’s).

Professor Smith whose area of specialization is the early church, spoke on the topic “Dashing Babies Against Rocks?: How the Early Church Read the Old Testament”.

Listen to his sermons and teachings:

Listen 10/21/07, Sermon: The Power of True Religion, 20:27
Listen 10/21/07, Teaching: “Dashing Babies Against Rock”? How the Early Church Read the Old Testament, 1:37:29

Justyn Terry
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Seminary
Degrees: BA, Keble College, Oxford, UK; BA, St. John’s, Durham, UK; PhD, King’s College, London, UK
Justyn Terry a native of England, is associate professor of systematic theology at the Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Dr. Terry is a graduate of Oxford University and received his Ph.D. fromKings College, University of London. He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England. Dr. Terry’s most recent book is The Justifying Judgment of God.

Listen to his teaching and sermon given at St. Peters:

Listen 04/19/08: Sermon: Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life, 16:22
Listen 04/19/08: Teaching: Forgiveness: Where Justice and Mercy Meet, 1:03:55 
Listen 09/24/06: Sermon: Who is the Greatest?, 12:48, 3.8 MB
Listen 09/22/06: Teaching: Theologies of the Gospel, 43:19, 12.5 MB  

Geoffrey Wainwright
Robert Earl Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School
Degrees: B.A., M.A., B.D.,D.D.,University of Cambridge Dr.Theol.,University of Geneva
Born in Yorkshire, England, and a cricket player in his youth, Geoffrey Wainwright studied in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome. He is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, and after serving a circuit ministry in Liverpool during the heyday of the Beatles, he was a missionary pastor and teacher in Cameroon,West Africa. In the mid ’70s he taught Scripture and doctrine at The Queen's College, Birmingham. In 1979 he moved to the United States, first to Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he held the Roosevelt chair of systematic theology, and then (in 1983) to Duke. He has devoted much of his energy to the cause of ecumenism, understood as unity in the truth of a gospel that is to be preached to the world. As a member of WCC Faith and Order, he played a leading part in the production of the Lima text on “Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry” (1982); and since 1986 he has co-chaired the dialogue between the World Methodist Council and the Roman Catholic Church.

Listen to his teaching and sermon given at St. Peters:

Listen 10/22/06, 9:00 am: Sermon: Our Needs and God's Provision, 15:13, 4.4 MB
Listen 10/22/06, 10:30 am: Teaching: What is Heresy?, 31:09, 9 MB