Emerson Stephen Colaw (November 13, 1921 – October 11, 2016) was an American bishop in the United Methodist Church and theologian specializing in homiletics.
Colaw became a member in full connection of the New York state annual conference of the Methodist Church in 1947.
It was from this appointment that he was elected to the episcopacy by the North Central jurisdictional conference of the United Methodist Church]in July 1980.
He retired in 1988 and then became a professor of homiletics and Christian ministry at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio from 1988 to 1999.
In Cincinnati, Colaw spent many years as moderator of a weekly television program titled Dialogue which had an ecumenical panel of local Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy.
Their daughter Prudence Klinger (Larry) has three children, Jeffrey, Robert (died October 11, 2010) and Kristin.