Profiles

Jared E. Alcántara is the Paul W. Powell Associate Professor of Preaching at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and teaching pastor in Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Jersey. His recent books are How to Preach Proverbs (Fontes, 2022), Let the Legends Preach (Wipf & Stock, 2021), The Practices of Christian Preaching (Baker, 2019), Learning from a Legend: What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us About Preaching (Wipf & Stock, 2016), and Crossover Preaching: Intercultural-Improvisational Homiletics in Conversation with Gardner C. Taylor (IVP, 2015).