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James Wesley Dennis III

Executive Pastor, Watson Grove Baptist Church

The Rev. Dr. James Wesley Dennis III serves as the executive pastor for Watson Grove Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Previously, he served as an Associate Program Director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School, where he worked with Foundations of Christian Leadership and Reflective Leadership Grants and directed the Innovation Grants program. An ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, James has served congregations in South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as the connectional church. He graduated from Morehouse College, Vanderbilt Divinity School and Candler School of Theology (Emory University). He enjoys good food, fine cigars and dating his wife, Mrs. Joslyn White Dennis.

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Designed for early career theological educators, this postdoctoral fellowship is an opportunity to engage in intentional, focused, professional formation while exploring a call to teach future pastoral leaders. The fellowship, which is part of the Louisville Institute’s Vocation of the Theological Educator Initiative, offers scholars a two-year placement at a graduate theological school, college, university, or education and research organization.

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