The Rev. Marvin McMickle leaving Cleveland to head New York divinity school

[Anthony]

The Rev. Dr. Marvin McMickle retires as pastor he's been named president of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in New York.

McMickle, 63, a board member and also pastor of Cleveland's Antioch Baptist Church.

McMickle has been senior pastor at Antioch Baptist since 1987.

His biography shows he was born in Chicago and is a 1970 graduate of Aurora University in Illinois with a B.A. in Philosophy. His alma mater also awarded him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1990.

He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1973 and did two additional years of graduate study at Columbia University in New York.

He earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey in 1983. He was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1998.

He was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1973 at Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City where he served on the pastoral staff from 1972-1976.

He served as the pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church of Montclair, New Jersey from 1976-1986. During that time he served as President of the New Jersey Council of Churches (1984-1986) and as a member of the Montclair Board of Education (1982-1986).

He also served two terms as president of the Montclair Branch of the NAACP. During those years Dr. McMickle served on the adjunct faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Brunswick Theological Seminary and New York Theological Seminary.

At Antioch established a ministry for people infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. This ministry was the first of its kind in the entire country.

The church also offers ministries in the areas of job training, a hunger center, three AA units, a credit union with over $2 million in assets and a tithing program in which the congregation tithes out to the community 10 percent of its annual income every year.

The church also sponsors one of eight marriage enrichment programs sponsored by the state of Ohio. He has also served as president of both the NAACP and the Urban League in Cleveland, as well as serving as president of the Shaker Heights Board of Education and as president of the Karamu House Performing Arts Center.

He is the Professor of Homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland where he has served on the full-time faculty since 1996. He is the author of 12 books.

He has also authored dozens of articles that regularly appear in professional journals and magazines. He is a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

In the winter semester of 2009, he served as a Visiting Professor of Preaching at Yale University Divinity School.

Yours truly,

Anthony Smith

[Anthony]

Old news was in the Plain dealer paper today, read it in the gym. They had the dinner over the weekend.

I don't know the brother personally, but I know he loves Cleveland & from what I understand Cleveland loves the man back, but New York will take very good care of him. I personally don't see the love affair with Cleveland, the mentality is completely different in New York. I know Rev. Dr. Marvin McMickle will disagree with me, but in this blue collar city of Cleveland, Ohio black folks, below middle class, middle class & upper middle class, mirror white supremacist psychological way of thinking.