Zan Wesley Holmes Jr

Zan Wesley Holmes Jr

Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr., is Pastor Emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, where he served for 28 years.

He was Adjunct Professor of Preaching at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University for 24 years. Known as much for his community activism as his preaching and teaching, Holmes was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from 1968 – 1972, while he also served as a United Methodist District Superintendent.

He is widely known from his role as narrator and host of the Disciple Bible Study video series produced by Abingdon Press.

Dr. Holmes graduated from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas and has two graduate degrees from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. In 2001, he was recognized as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “Invisible Giants” in the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama.

Publications

He is the author of:
*"Reaching for Revival" (1991),
*"Encountering Jesus" (1992), and
*"When Trouble Comes" (1996).

Holmes has also written chapters in "Our Time under God is Now" (1993) and in "Power in the Pulpit: How America’s Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare their Sermons" (2002).

External links

* [http://www.wfn.org/2002/06/msg00156.html Zan Holmes looks back on career that influenced many]
* [http://www.abingdonpress.com Abingdon Press] .


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