Rev. Dr. Kirkpatick Cohall

Associate Dean
Assistant Professor of Christian Education

Office phone: 212-870-
E-mail: kcohall@nyts.edu

Kirkpatrick Cohall is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Christian Education at New York Theological Seminary.  He currently serves as Senior Pastor for the Lenox Road Baptist Church in Brooklyn New York, an American Baptist congregation for most of its one hundred and thirty seven year history. Prior to his pastoral and academic service, he worked as a Medical Technologist at the Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Research Hospital in New York City, for more than eleven years before making the bold and courageous change in his career path to fulfill a call to pastoral ministry and to pursue graduate studies in education.

Rev. Cohall is a graduate of New York Theological Seminary (MDiv., 1993, DMin., 2000) and Fordham University Graduate School of Education (PhD., 2006). He has taught and conducted research in Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University. His most recent publication is in the Journal of Research on Christian Education entitled Educating American Baptist Pastors: A National Survey of Church Leaders. His current projects include research on pastoral leadership which will culminate in the publication of a book titled Leadership Redefined: A Survival Guide for 21st Century Clergy.

Rev. Cohall’s areas of research and teaching are in the field of Educational Leadership, Policy and Reform, Leading a Learning Organization, Ethics and Social Justice for Educational Administrators and Religious Education.  As a pastor he continues to explore emerging methodologies in addressing the many social pathologies in urban America and the role of the church in addressing these issues.

Rev. Cohall served on several boards of institutions that continue to have a positive impact in the community and the nation.  Those boards include Anchor House, a drug and alcohol treatment and rehabilitation center, and the general board of the American Baptist Churches USA. He is a past president of the board of International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches overseeing missionaries serving in all six continents. He is married and the proud father of two teenage children.