Anna Carter Florence
Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary
Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with degrees from Yale University (BA) and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv and PhD). Her books include Preaching as Testimony (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007), Rehearsing Scripture (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2018), based on her 2012 Beecher Lectures at Yale, and A is for Alabaster: 52 Reflections on the Stories of Scripture (Westminster John Knox Press, 2023). Anna is a frequent preacher and teacher in the U.S. and abroad. She and her husband, the Rev. David Carter Florence, have two grown sons, Caleb and Jonah. They also have two dogs, two cats, and way too much knitting yarn.
Sessions
Lecture: “She Wasn’t on the Roof: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, the Women of Jesus’ Genealogy”
Workshop: The Difference It Makes to Block a Text
Anthony Bailey
Woodfroffe United Church
Rev. Dr. Anthony Bailey is the Voluntary Associate Minister at Woodfroffe United Church in Ottawa, Canada. His academic degrees are in social work, theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He has experience teaching at a university level and has also served in Kenya, Jamaica, and the USA.
In his public ministry, he has delivered diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-Black systemic racism training to a variety to Churches, Police services, Federal Government departments, schools and community organization. He has enjoyed serving in a variety of roles at the annual Festival of Homiletics. He enjoys family time, cycling, reading and playing hockey.