Reginald Blount to lead Center for the Church and the Black Experience
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary professor Reginald Blount has been tapped to lead the school’s Center for the Church and the Black Experience. He succeeds Taurean J. Webb, who has served as CBE director since 2019.
The CBE, which was founded in 1970, provides leadership training for Black seminarians and pastors. Blount is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and currently pastors Arnett Chapel AME in Chicago.
Blount joined the faculty at the United Methodist–affiliated Garrett in 2006, where his research has focused on adolescent and young adult identity in formation. Blount and his daughter Deborah Ayanna contributed to the 2015 student edition of the Common English Bible. Blount coedited the book Let Your Light Shine: Mobilizing for Justice with Children and Youth, which was published in 2019.
