Don Saliers

professor, sacred music & theology, Emory

Rev. Saliers is the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, where he also directs the Masters in Sacred Music Program. He taught at Yale Divinity School before moving to Atlanta in 1974. The author of a dozen books and over a hundred articles, he has lectured widely across the ecumenical church. Rev. Saliers, who has contributed to the development of worship for the United Methodist Church for nearly 40 years, is President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. An active composer, he has served as organist/choirmaster at Chandler's Cannon Chapel for over 25 years.