Instructors
James “Mickey” Efird is professor emeritus of Biblical interpretation at the Duke Divinity School where he was a member of the faculty for forty-four years. Throughout his career, Dr. Efird has concentrated on making the Bible accessible for laity. His teaching, research, and writing covers both the Old and New Testaments and is reflected in fourteen books and over sixty articles in many journals and Bible dictionaries. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Edgardo Cólon-Emeric is Assistant Research Professor of Theology and Hispanic Studies at Duke University and director of the Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School. He is an ordained elder in the North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church where he serves as associate pastor of Reconciliation UMC, a bilingual, multicultural congregation. His research interests are to explore the intersections of classical theology with Hispanic questions.
Laceye Warner currently serves as the Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies and the Royce and Jane Reynolds Teaching Fellow, as well as the Associate Dean for Academic Formation and Programs at The Divinity School. Dr. Warner previously served as E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. An ordained elder in the Texas Annual Conference, Warner’s areas of interest include Theological Foundations of Evangelism, Women and Evangelism, 20th Century Methodism, Evangelism and Leadership in the Wesleyan Tradition.