Profiles

Esau McCaulley, PhD, is the founding pastor of All Saints Anglican Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is also an author and the Jonathan Blanchard Associate Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College. His writing and speaking focus on New Testament exegesis, African American biblical interpretation, and public theology. Among the numerous books he has written is Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, which won Christianity Today’s Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year in 2021. McCaulley also served as general editor of The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary.

His recent memoir, How Far to the Promised Land, was selected as one of Amazon’s best nonfiction books of 2023. McCaulley has also penned works for children, including Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit, Andy Johnson and the March for Justice, and God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible. He is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, senior editor for Holy Post Media, and host of a Holy Post podcast. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Christianity Today.