Edward John Stetzer (born 1966) is an American author, pastor, and Christian missiologist. He is Dean and Professor of Leadership and Christian Ministry at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He also serves as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University. Stetzer is Regional Director for Lausanne North America, the Editor-in-Chief of Outreach (magazine), and regularly writes for USA Today and CNN.
Stetzer was born in Long Island and grew up Catholic in Levittown, New York, outside New York City.
He holds master's degrees from Liberty University School of Divinity and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry from Beeson Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.[1]
He worked as Dean of the Graduate School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership, Professor, Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. And prior to that, as Executive Director of LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, and as LifeWay's Missiologist in Residence. Stetzer has also served as Director of Research and Missiologist-In-Residence for the North American Mission Board.
Stetzer became Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2019.[1]
