Kyle Stevenson

A headshot photo of Kyle Stevenson, a doctoral student in the theological and social ethics track in the Theology Department at Fordham University. Kyle is wearing a clerical collar with a black dress shirt and black suit jacket

 

Education

B.A. History - Morehouse College, 2015
M.Div. - Candler School of Theology, 2018
Th.M. - Columbia  Theological Seminary, 2019

Biography

The Rev. Kyle Austin Stevenson is a 2015 Cum Laude graduate of Morehouse College with a BA in History. On December 29, 2013, Rev. Stevenson was licensed to the gospel ministry at his home church, Alfred Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, VA, where the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley is the Pastor.

Rev. Stevenson earned his Master of Divinity from the Emory University, Candler School of Theology, in May 2018. While a seminarian at Candler, he also served as an intern at The Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he was ordained in 2019 by The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock. Rev. Stevenson earned his Master of Theology from the Columbia Theological Seminary in May 2019 and received the Frederick Buchner Excellence in Writing Award.

He is a PhD student at Fordham University in the Theological and Social Ethics field. His research interests are in the intersection of theological ethics, liturgical theology, theologies of baptism, theologies of the resurrection, disability theology, Black and queer theologies, and theological anthropology. He was a panelist at the 2023 Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference and a co-presenter at the Institute of Theology and Disability. Also, in 2023, he gave a plenary lecture for the Choir Directors' & Organists' Guild Workshop at the Hampton Ministers Conference. He has published articles on disability theology in The Other Journal - "Rich Wounds Yet Visible:
Anti-Ableist Leadership, Black Worship, and the Disabled God" (37, Spring 2024) - and Yale Reflections Journal - "Finding Healing in My Disability." His Yale Reflections Journal article earned the Award of Merit in the Personal Experience (long format) category.