Sam Wright

Born in Seymour, Indiana, Dr. Sam Wright served as a pastor in American Baptist churches in Indiana before becoming United Methodist Church pastor in 1994. He graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic College with a B.A. in religion and earned an M.Div. and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which included study at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem, Israel. He has taught in seminaries, colleges, and universities in the USA and in Brazil where he lectured in Portuguese. He and his wife Yvonne have a daughter who teaches special needs children. When their son died in 2013 Dr. Wright wrote Heartbreak to Hope: Overcoming the Anguish of Grief to help others struggling with grief. Part of his recovery process has involved regaining his sense of humor