Horace Griffin teaches Pastoral Theology, directs the Chicago Collegiate Seminarians Program and is the Associate Dean for External Relations at Seabury. While his teaching and research in the field of pastoral care and counseling are diverse, Horace is especially trained in the area of race, sexuality and gender issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from Morehouse College, a master of divinity degree from Boston University, a master of arts degree from Vanderbilt University and the Ph.D. in Religion and Personality from Vanderbilt University. Horace is a 1992 Andrew Mellon Fellow and the author of several scholarly articles. A number of his current research interests are reflected in an essay, “Their Own Received Them Not: African-American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches,” which will appear in The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in African American Communities in Spring 2001. Horace previously taught in the Department of Religious and Philosophical Studies at Fisk University in Nashville, TN and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

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