January 25-27, 2027 - Dr. Samantha Gilmore

Samantha is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Wartburg Theological Seminary. She previously taught homiletics at the General Theological Seminary (New York, NY) and speech communication in ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ). She holds a Ph.D. in Practical Theology focusing on Homiletics, an M.Div., and an M.A. in Christian Education focusing on Spirituality and Missional Formation from Princeton Theological Seminary.

As a Designated Linklater Teacher (a certification in an internationally recognized embodied voice method), Samantha taught voice and speech at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and the Tom Todoroff Studio (New York, NY). She is integrating this expertise as a practical theologian to develop practices for preachers to become fully present, connected, and receptive to God and people, and to help them foster their embodied voices for proclamation that corresponds to the freedom and abundance of the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified.

2026 - Bishop Shelley Bryan Wee and Rick Steves

2025 - Rev. Dr. Luke Powery

2024 - Rev. Dr. Shauna Hannan

2023 - Rev. Traci Blackmon

2022 - Pandemic

2021 - Pandemic

2020 - Rev. Dr. Karoline Lewis

2019 - Rev. Barbara Lundblad

2018 - Rev. Dr. Shauna Hannan and Amanda Zenz—Alo

2017 - Rev. Dr. David Lose and Rev. Dave Brauer Rieke

2016 - Rev. Dr. Eric Barreto

2015 - Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik and Rev. Fred Quivik

2014 - Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence and Rev. Barry Rosse

2013 - Rev. Dr. Terry Fretheim and Rick Jaech

2012 - Rev. Dr. Craig Satterlee

2011 - Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing

2010 - Richard Rohrbaugh

2009 - Kadi Billman and Ralph Klein

2008 - Douglas John Hall

2007 - Eric Law

2006 - Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez and Justo Gonzalez

2005 - Craig Satterlee and Melinda Wagner

2004 - Hal Dragseth and David Lose

2003 - Patricia Datchuck Sanchez

2002 - Jerome Berryman and Herb Anderson

2001 - Krister Stendahl and Bradley Hansen

2000 - Musimbi Kanyoro and Paul Wee

1999 - Dale Soden and William Willimon

1998 - Roy Harrisville and Gail Ramshaw

1997 - Walter Brueggemann and Paul Manz

1996 - Robert Goeser and Mary Knutson

1995 - Elizabeth Achtemeier and Barbara Lundblad

1994 - Robert Farrar Capon and Eugene Lowery

1993 - Gordon Lathrop and William Lazareth

1992 - Michael Rogness and Jim Nestigen