Melissa Florer-Bixler

Writer and doctoral student

Melissa Florer-Bixler is a writer and a doctoral student in homeletics at Duke Divinity School. Previously she served as pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and as minister of nurture at Duke Memorial United Methodist Church in Durham, North Carolina. She has an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and an M.A. in religion from Duke University and is licensed for ministry in the Virginia Mennonite Conference. Her writing has appeared in Sojourners, Geez, Anabaptist Witness, Image Journal and Anabaptist Vision. Florer-Bixler is the author of  “How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace” and “Fire By Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament.”