The Rev. Kevin Vandiver (he/him) attended Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, where he earned a B.A. in Music. After he completed his undergraduate studies, he earned his Master of Divinity from the Duke University Divinity School, where he was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar. Pastor Kevin holds a Ph.D. in Practical Theology with a specialty in Homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a Princeton Seminary Doctoral Fellow, and a recipient of the prestigious Doctoral (2020) and Dissertation Fellowships (2022) at the Louisville Presbyterian Institute.
Kevin joined the community of VTS in the Summer of 2024 assisting with teaching D.Ed.Min students and was the Martha Horne Visiting Professor beginning in the Fall of 2024. He currently supports the preaching curriculum as Affiliated Faculty at both VTS and GTS.
He is also the Senior Pastor of Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.
His research interest include:
- Postcolonial Homiletics
- Black Preaching (in White Spaces)
- Performance Theory
- Hermeneutics for Preaching
Linked Publications
Kevin Vandiver. Black Preacher, White Church. (Fortress Press, Forthcoming Spring 2027).
Contributor: Sundays and Seasons: Preaching 2024 (Augsburg Fortress)
Contributor: Sundays and Seasons Worship Planning 2023 (Augsburg Fortress)
Kevin Vandiver. “Everyone is in Debt.” Lutheran Journal of Ethics, Vol. 22, no. 1 (2021).
Kevin Vandiver. “Racial Justice Now: Possibility in the Face of Trauma,” in Word and World, Vol. 41S (2021), 70-78.
Kevin Vandiver. “Talking on the Road to Emmaus: A Paradigm for Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and toward Contextualizing Theology” in Currents: The Theological Journal of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Wartburg Theological Seminary, Vol. 47, no. 3 (2020).
Kevin Vandiver. “Resurrection as Protest.” Living Lutheran ELCA Magazine, (April 2020).