Conference Speaker
The Rev. Dr. Don E. Saliers is the Wm. R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship, Emeritus, at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Educated at Ohio Wesleyan, Yale Divinity School and Cambridge Universities, he received his doctoral degree from Yale University. Don taught at Yale Divinity School before joining the faculty at Emory in 1974, retiring in 2007 after 42 years of teaching. He has been an oblate of St. John's Abbey for over 25 years.
Don has served local churches in rural Ohio and the inner city of New Haven. For the past 34 years he has been organist/choirmaster at Emory University's Cannon Chapel, and has contributed to the United Methodist Hymnal, The Book of Worship, and the recent UpperRoom Worshipbook. He lectures, preaches and leads retreats widely across North America, and has taught regularly at Notre Dame, St. John's, Vancouver School of Theology and Boston College. He has served as president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.
He is the author and co-author of 15 books and over 140 essays and book chapters. Among his recent publications are Music and Theology, Filled With Light, Worship as a Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine, Worship and Spirituality, Worship Come To Its Senses, and Music and Theology. Don serves on the editorial board of Weavings, Spiritus, and Worship journals, and was part of the founding of the Academy for Spiritual Formation. He is editor of the hymn collection, Sounding Glory, published by Oregon Catholic Press in 2007.
He is married to Jane Firmin Saliers, a retired public librarian. They have raised four musical daughters and live in Atlanta, Georgia.