The Bishop E.T. Dixon Lecture

Dr. Bridgeman is an interdisciplinary scholar who works in the fields of bible, practical theology (preaching and worship), hermeneutics, cultural criticism, and the arts. She is an accomplished and published poet, as well as a performance artist. She received her Ph.D. in biblical studies (OT concentration) and minor in ethics from Baylor University. She currently serves as associate professor of Hebrew Bible, Homiletics and Worship, and Scholar in Theology and the Arts at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. She got her start as a professor at Huston-Tillotson University in the 1990's

The 2010 Lecture topic was, "Hip Hop and the Preacher: A Cultural Reading of the book of Ecclesiastes."