Biography: Carolyn L. Gordon

Carolyn L. Gordon, B.J., University of Missouri Columbia School of Journalism; M.Div., M.A.Comm., and M.A.R.E., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, Texas); Ph.D. in human communication studies, Howard  University (Washington, D.C.)

Gordon is an associate professor of communication and chair of the Ministry Division at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is former chair of the preaching department at Fuller. She was an associate professor of church and community at Central Baptist Theological Seminary before joining FTS. She has served as the director of ministries in higher education for the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, as a communications professor at Bowie State University (Md.), and as the associate pastor of Craig Memorial Community Church, in Chapel Oaks, Maryland. She has also taught communications in the Junior Statesman Summer Program at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn.

Gordon is the former national vice president for Baptist Women in Ministry. Dually ordained by the Southern and National Baptist Conventions, she was a contributing author for the 2005-07 National American Baptist Women's Resource Manual. She is also the author of the 1999 DCBC National Capital Area Missions Offering Resource Booklet. She is a former columnist for The Beacon newspaper (A Courier-Life publication). She has produced several television shows, including Another Day, for KYFC-TV in Kansas City, Mo., and A Point of View, for BSU-TV in Bowie, Maryland. Gordon was a part of history in 2001, when she traveled with a group to Recife, Brazil, and participated in the ordination ceremony of one of the first Baptist women in that country ever ordained to the pastoral ministry. She made history again in 2010 when she traveled to Tanzania, Africa, to attend the inaugural Global Preaching Summit. She was the only female homiletician in the world to attend.