Donyelle McCray

Donyelle McCray serves as Associate Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. A teacher, writer, and Episcopal layperson, her scholarship focuses on ways African American women and lay people use the sermon to play, remember, invent, and disrupt.

She is the author of The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher (2019) and Is it a Sermon?: Art, Activism, and Genre Fluidity in African American Preaching (2024). She is currently writing a book on the preaching and spirituality of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Before becoming a homiletics professor, she served as an attorney and hospice chaplain.