David Emmanuel Goatley is Associate Dean for Academic and Vocational Formation, Director of the Office of Black Church Studies, and Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Research Pro...view moreDavid Emmanuel Goatley is Associate Dean for Academic and Vocational Formation, Director of the Office of Black Church Studies, and Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Research Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School. With previous appointments in university and seminary settings, he also served as an urban missionary, denominational executive, congregational pastor, and global missions executive. He is editor of Black Religion, Black Theology: Selected Writings of J. Deotis Roberts and author of A Divine Assignment: The Missiology of Wendell Clay Somerville.view less