Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Homiletics
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1991

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973
M. Div., Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 1988
M.A., Harvard University, 1970
A.B., Carleton College, 1968

Phone: 510/204-0730
E-mail: Lclader@cdsp.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Imagination and Preaching
• Prophetic Preaching
• Liturgical Preaching

Selected Publications

• "The Formation of a Eucharistic Preacher," in Michael Monshau, O.P., Preaching at the Double Feast. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2006).
• Voicing the Vision: Imagination and Prophetic Preaching. Harrisburg: Morehouse, 2003.
• "The Feast of the Visitation," in Jana Childers, ed., Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process, Chalice, 2001.
• "Preaching the Liturgical Narrative: The Easter Vigil and the Language of Myth," Worship, 72:2 (Mar. 1998), 147-162.
• Helen: The Evolution from Divine to Heroic in Greek Epic Tradition. Brill, 1976.