Valerie Bridgeman
Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible
Education
Ph.D., Baylor University, 2002
M.Div., Austin Theological Seminary, 1990
B.A., Trinity University, 1986
Selected published works
“The Thin Place in the Heart of God,” Journal for Preachers Vol. XLV, no. 1 (Advent 2021): 27-30.
“Song of Solomon Introduction” and “Song of Solomon Commentary,” 816-823, Baylor Annotated Study Bible, W.H. Bellinger, Jr. and Todd D. Still, eds. Waco: Baylor University Press, Annotated Edition, 2014.
“’A Long Ways from Home’: Displacement, Lament, and Singing Protest in Psalm 137,” in Perspectives in Religious Studies 44 (2017): 213–23.
“The Inspiration of Rizpah’s Courageous Helplessness,” 105-106, and “Personal Reflections on the ‘Hybrid’ Identity of the Phoenician Woman,” 251-253, in Global Perspectives on the Bible, Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver, eds. Columbus: Pearson Education, Inc., 2014.
Sites of interest
I am founder and CEO of WomanPreach! Inc., which partners with MTSO to provide practical training and nurturing community spaces that empower preachers across the country. MTSO and WomanPreach! share a five-year, $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to do this work together.