Elizabeth was formerl
y a research scientist. She answered a call to ministry at a young age but did not obtain her Master’s of Divinity from the Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York until her three young children were in school. During Seminary Elizabeth worked as a chaplain in varous settings and was on staff at Norton Presbyterian Church in Darien, CT as the Director of Adult Spiritual Formation.
When God called her to Teach the Word as the Teaching Director of the Greenwich Connecticut Evening Community Bible Study Class, the door was opened for her to begin preparing the Thoughtful Proclaimer Ministy. She began to study preaching in the doctoral program at Gordon-Conwell. She took what she learned about preaching for pastors and worked to adapt it into a method that would suit not only pastors but would be accessible to lay Bible study leaders.
As a Teaching Director for CBS, Elizabeth not only had the training, but the time to formulate a new method of Bible study for preachers and teachers. Her willing class and associates commented and critiqued the messages as she tried new styles of preaching and built on her Thoughtful Proclaimer contemplative inductive theological exegesis method.
Elizabeth noticed that contemplative inductive Bible study methods could yield accurate Biblical teaching and preaching for those willing to work hard. But even more, inductive Bible study was spiritually fulfilling. Rather than getting burned out preparing weekly messages and running a Bible study, Elizabeth found herself growing closer to God week by week as she studied the Word to prepare her messages. She wrote the Thoughtful Proclaimer book and runs Thoughtful Proclaimer seminars to equip others and also to give them a way to minister and teach over the long haul.
The Thoughtful Proclaimer method of message preparation builds you up rather than burning you out. In the Thoughtful Proclaimer method, Elizabeth stresses contemplative inductive personal Bible study, canonical contextual interpretation, and redemptive transformative messages.
Elizabeth’s doctorate is in “Preaching the Literary Forms of the Bible,” from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts.
