Dr. Walter R. Strickland II is an educator who hails from a line of teachers. Viewing education as discipleship, Dr. Strickland teaches regularly in a variety of environments as a professor, preacher, consultant, conference speaker, and as a published author.
Walter was born in Chicago and raised in Southern California. His teaching and writing interests include theological studies, the African American theological tradition, and theology of work.
Walter and his wife Stephanie live in Wake Forest, NC and have a daughter named Hope who is waiting to meet them in glory, two daughters named Kendra and Kaiya, and a son Walter III.
Affiliations
- Cultural Engagement — Co-Founder. Helping institutions of higher education and corporations build unified teams and extends their reach cross-cultrually through sustainable professional development.
- UnifiEd: A Center for Hope and Unity — Executive Director. We specialize in equipping K-12 Christian educators to think cross-culturally about their school’s mission.
- Imago Dei Church — Teaching Pastor
- Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary — Assistant Professor of Systematic and Contextual Theology
- Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology at Cambridge –– Associate Fellow
Education
- Ph.D. University of Aberdeen
- Th.M. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- M.Div. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- B. A. Cedarville University
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