Gathering Together

About the Contributor(s): Rodney Wallace Kennedy (PhD, Louisiana State University) is lead pastor of First Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio, as well as director of the Baptist House of Studies at United Theological Seminary, also in Dayton. He is the author of several books on homiletics, including Sermons from Mind and Heart (2011). Derek C. Hatch (PhD, University of Dayton) teaches theology and ethics at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.