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The Rev. J. C. Austin is director of the Center for Christian Leadership at Austin Theological Seminary in New York, NY.

Member of:

Presbyterian Church (USA)

Representative of:

Auburn Theological Seminary

The Reverend J.C. Austin has served as the Director of the Center for Christian Leadership at Auburn Theological Seminary since 2009. His work focuses on helping Christian church leaders develop continual and creative excellence in ministry both in their congregations and in public life.

Rev. Austin is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and spent ten years as a pastor in New York City before coming to Auburn. He earned his Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Theology and Public Life at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Rev. Austin preaches, teaches, and speaks regularly around the country, particularly on the subjects of church leadership development, giving/money in the church, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Christian social ethics. His public writings have appeared in The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post's On Faith blog, and he has had many sermons featured on GoodPreacher.org, the website of the Festival of Homiletics.

Latest Content by The Rev. J. C. Austin

The Rev. J. C. Austin: Is the Good Samaritan a Criminal in Alabama?

The Rev. J. C. Austin (PCUSA)

One of my earliest memories is of a tornado roaring through my neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I was less than four years old, but I vividly remember sitting in the linen closet cradling my infant brother, as I heard the enormous roar of wind and listened to the trees in our yard be torn from the ground like giant toothpicks and tossed on top of our house. The house was damaged, but remained intact, and we were uninjured. But only our neighbors at the end of the street had a working phone after the storm. So they went out into the devastation and invited other neighbors, including my mom, to come in and use the phone to let people know we were okay.

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