Craig Alan Satterlee is a preacher, teacher, scholar, and minister of Word and Sacrament who has served Christ’s Church as pastor, professor, dean, and bishop. Craig served as bishop of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and taught preaching at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Craig is known for regularly leading continuing education events throughout the church.
Craig received the B.A. (political science and rhetoric) from the University of Michigan, M.Div. and S.T.M. (pastoral care) from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, and M.A. and Ph.D. in homiletics and liturgical history from the University of Notre Dame.
Craig is the author or coauthor of ten books and numerous articles in both scholarly and ecclesiastical journals. Craig’s scholarly interests include the relationship of preaching and areas of congregational life and mission, including liturgy, spirituality, evangelism stewardship, mission, and leadership. He also studies patristic preaching, most notably that of Ambrose of Milan, and the worship of the early church.
As a scholar, Craig is described as belonging “to the relatively small group of working homileticians whose work can justifiably be said to have changed the agenda of the discipline.” His books are “superb examples of practical theology, remaining fully theological while engaging on-the-ground realities in the life of the church.”
Craig is past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, and a member of Societas Liturgica, Societas Homiletica, and the Academy of Homiletics.
As a person who is legally blind, Craig has a passion for ministry with persons with disabilities and a unique perspective on the Christian faith, church, and world.
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