Clayton Schmit joined Fuller’s faculty in 2000 as the Arthur DeKruyter/Christ Church Oak Brook Associate Professor of Preaching and was appointed academic director of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts in 2001.  He teaches Homiletics and a variety of courses in liturgical arts.  Along with the experience he brings in the field of preaching and worship, he is an accomplished choral music director and published composer. He has been commissioned to compose hymns or anthems for several churches and has been asked to compose songs honoring the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers U.S.S. Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln.

Schmit has published numerous articles and several books including Too Deep for Words: A Theology of Liturgical Expression (2002) and Public Reading of Scripture (2002). He also received a Calvin Institute for Christian Worship grant to co-edit a research book called Performing the Word: Bringing the Sermon to Life (with Jana Childers) due November 2008.  In addition, he is completing a book for Baker Academic on worship and is editing a Brehm Center/Cascade Press publication entitled A Teaching Hymnal: Ecumenical and Evangelical.  Recently he has been awarded a Luce grant in support of a Global Preaching Initiative that will create online and print resources for preachers around the world that have no access to seminary educations. He is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and served as an associate pastor for 13 years. He was awarded the Luce Post-doctoral Fellowship at Duke Divinity School in 1998-2000. Schmit belongs to the Academy of Homiletics, Societas Homiletica, the North American Academy of Liturgy, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada.

Preaching and worship, aesthetics of preaching and liturgy, composing, conducting and performing liturgical music