Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly has spent his adult life in Christ-focused ministry through preaching, teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels, and writing. He is committed to a non-sectarian presentation of the message of Christ. He was educated at Harding University (BA, MA, MTh / Bible) and Vanderbilt University (MA, PhD / Philosophy).
Shelly preached for the Family of God at Woodmont Hills in Nashville (formerly the Ashwood Church of Christ) from 1978 to 2005. He also taught at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Tennessee State University while in Nashville. He served as Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Rochester College in Rochester Hills, Michigan, from 2005 to 2008, and was named its president in 2008.
In 2015, Shelly returned to Nashville as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Lipscomb University and to inaugurate studies in medical ethics at the university. From January 2021 to the present, he has served as Teaching Minister for the Harpeth Hills Church.
Among other books, he is the author of I Just Want to Be a Christian, Divorce & Remarriage: A Redemptive Theology, I Knew Jesus Before He Was a Christian, Male and Female God Created Them, and The Ink Is Dry
He and his late wife, Myra, have three children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.