Stephen Butler Murray

The Reverend Dr. Stephen Butler Murray is President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Preaching at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. An ordained minister in the American Baptist Church, he served previously as Senior Pastor of The First Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts and as American Baptist Chaplain to Harvard University and Denominational Counselor and Lecturer in Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. In higher education, he previously served on the faculty and as the chaplain to Skidmore College, Suffolk University, and Endicott College, and as an administrator at Yale University's Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice. In parish ministry, he has served as the pastor of American Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ congregations in urban, suburban, and rural settings of Massachusetts and New York. Dr. Murray is a graduate of Bucknell University, received the M.B.A. from Endicott College, the M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.