Nicole McDonald

Rev. Dr. Nicole McDonald is a Pediatric ICU Chaplain at Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of pastoral care, preaching, and rhetoric. Currently, she’s interested in the epistemological aspects of the call to preach in the African American preaching tradition. For her dissertation, Nicole focuses on the call narrative and preaching of queer womanist preacher Bishop Yvette Flunder to understand the form and significance of the call, and the nature of Flunder’s apocalyptic message. Through rhetorical critical methods, she researches how call narratives inform sermons and biblical interpretation.

Dissertation:

Yvette A. Flunder: The Apocalyptic Prophet