Morehouse College President Robert Franklin recently inducted Joel Gregory, professor at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, into the Martin Luther King Jr. International College of Preachers.

The College of Preachers recognizes pulpiteers who embody the principles of peace, justice and reconciliation proclaimed by Martin Luther King Jr. Gregory recently was the keynote speaker at the 142nd Founders Day Celebration at Morehouse School of Religion.

Morehouse College President Robert Franklin inducts Joel Gregory into the Martin Luther King, Jr. International College of Preachers.

“American history does not know a preacher who moves with such ease and grace across what many have considered the unbridgeable chasm of race as does Joel Gregory,” Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Gardner C. Taylor said. “Possessed of a rare integrity in the proclamation of the Savior’s gospel with stellar gifts as a preacher and a heart strangely warmed, Joel Gregory is messenger of Christ to all of America.”

This induction followed other recognitions of Gregory’s cross-cultural preaching. At the National Mighty Men of Valor conference at Valley Forge, Pa., Gregory was recognized with the “Man Behind the Men” award for his influence on both preachers and laity in cross-cultural ministry. Conference director Cliff Ashe presented the award.

Recently, Gregory was the first Anglo preacher to address the Prairie View A&M Pastor’s Conference in the 59-year history of the conference at the historic African-American university.

Commenting on Gregory’s cross-cultural preaching, Robert Smith Jr. of Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School said, “As one of the most effective preachers of the gospel in the English-speaking world, Joel Gregory builds a bridge between the black and white culture without compromising the uniqueness of human personality.”

This summer, for the fifth year, Gregory will lead a group of predominantly African-American preachers in an intensive study of preaching at Regents Park College, Oxford University under the sponsorship of Georgetown College in Kentucky.

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