Nelson T Strobert is professor emeritus of Religious Education in the Paulssen/Hale Chair of Church and Society where he was on the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (now United Lutheran Seminary). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Akron. In addition to published articles and presentations, he is the author of Daniel Alexander Payne: /The Venerable Preceptor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (University Press, 2013) and advisor and editor to Luther’s Small Catechism with African Descent Reflections (2019). His most recent publication “Daniel Alexander Payne and Samuel Simon Schmucker: Venerable Preceptors” in Schmucker at 225:What He Thought and What He Wrought (Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 2025). His research interests include Lutheran Parochial Education, African American education, curriculum history, and religious education biography. An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, prior to his election to the seminary faculty, he served as co-pastor of the Lutheran parishes on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and Advent Lutheran Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of the Religious Education Association, History of Education Society, The Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic, and the Conference of International Black Lutherans (USA). He is co-host of “The Seminary Explores” podcast from United Lutheran Seminary.