Richard Alan Lischer (born November 12, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American author, memoirist, preacher, practical theologian, and professor emeritus at Duke Divinity School.
He has participated in multiple NPR interviews,[4] and in 2010 was a part of the PBS documentary "God in America," where he provides background for the episode on the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement.
It evokes the hidden dramas in a small country church and traces the painful learning curve of its inexperienced minister.
Following the book’s publication in 2001, Lischer began a program of research and teaching in spiritual autobiography that has increasingly occupied the latter phases of his career.
Lischer graduated from Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, IN in 1965, and then from Washington University in St. Louis in 1967 with an MA in English.