Delman L. Coates (born January 13, 1973) is an American Christian minister. He has been senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, a megachurch located in Clinton, Maryland, since 2004.

Coates is founder of the Our Money Campaign, an economic justice campaign launched in May 2019. He is founder of the Black Church Center for Justice & Equality. Coates is a board member of the National Action Network.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Published articles
• 3 Politics
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life and education

Delman Coates was born on January 13, 1973 in Richmond, VA. He has one sister. Coates obtained his B.A. in Religion in 1995 from Morehouse College and his Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School in 1998. He also attended Columbia University, receiving his Master of Philosophy in Religion in 2002 and his Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity in 2006).

Published articles

• "And the Bible Says: Methodological Tyranny of Biblical Fundamentalism and Historical Criticism" in Blow the Trumpet in Zion (2004)
• "Towards a Progressive Christian Interpretive Praxis" in The African-American Pulpit (2004)
• "Origen of Alexandria" in Union Seminary Quarterly Review (vol. 59:3-4, 2005)

Coates wrote an essay *led “The New Abolitionism: Monetary Reform and the Future of Civil Rights” which appears in the book Mr. President: Interfaith Perspectives on the Historic Presidency of Barack H. Obama (2017).

Politics

Maryland House of Delegates member Heather Mizeur named Coates as her running mate in the 2014 race for governor.

References

External links

• Mt. Ennon Baptist Church

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