Wallis C. Baxter III

Reverend Wallis C. Baxter III, PhD serves as the Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church (formerly of Southwest DC) in District Heights, MD. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of District of Columbia Community College. He received the Bachelor of Arts Degree from Morehouse College in 2006, majoring in English. He received the Master of Divinity Degree from Duke Divinity School in 2009 and a PhD in African American Literature from Howard University in 2017. He is author of Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again (May 2022) and co-editor of Preaching During a Pandemic: Sermons from the Black Preaching Tradition (March 2023).