Rev. Dr. Leonard Lovett is a native of Pompano Beach, Florida. He is a distinguished graduate of Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary with the Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Emory University in Ethics and Society. He received a Certificate in Africana Studies from the University of Ghana (Legon) in 1994. He is the pioneer Dean Emeritus of C.H. Mason Seminary, an affiliate of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta Georgia. He is the Church Of God In Christ First Ecumenical Officer of Urban Affairs.

Dr. Lovett has served over two decades of pastoral ministry in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Atlanta. He has taught at server al seminaries including Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley), American Baptist Seminary of the West (Covina), Ecumenical Center for Black Studies (Los Angeles), and more recently Oral Roberts Graduate School of Theology, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Faith Community and Academy unites for over a decade as founding CEO of Seminex Ministries, specializing in Church/Leadership Development seminars and his commitment as Independent Research Scholar. His ecumenical involvement began in 1974 as a reactor at a Vatican-Pentecostal Dialogue held as Schlosse Crahiem, in West Germany. He has served as a member of Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches. For well over two decades he has been the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrant speaker at scores colleges, universities, churches and military bases throughout North America.

He is a former columnist on the Black Perspective for the bi-monthly Ministries Today magazine. Dr. Lovett has contributed innumerable articles spanning a wide spectrum of commentary on political, social ethical and theological issues impacting urbia. Press Release: My latest book "Kingdom Beyond Color"
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His book "Close Your Back Door" is scheduled for re-publication. He is in demand throughout North america and abroad as a lecturer and activist theologian within the Faith Community and the Academy having engaged in ministry on five continents.

Dr. Lovett is father of four sons and resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Phyllis Marie a Clinical Social Worker.