Charles E. Cotherman

Charles E. Cotherman (PhD, University of Virginia) serves as executive director of the Center for Rural Ministry and as sistant professor of biblical and theological studies at Grove City College. He is lead pastor of Oil City Vineyard Church, a con gregation he and his wife planted in 2016 in a corner of rural western Pennsylvania they have always called home. He writes on rural ministry, small-town America, church planting, the Christian Study Center movement, and American religious history. He has taught church history at Fuller Theological Seminary and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He also serves as a member of the Brookings-AEI Commission on US Rural Prosperity.