Dr. Andy Chambers <chambers@mobap.edu; 314-392-2211> is vice president for student development and associate professor of Bible. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an M.Div. and a Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He has done additional study at Baylor University and Harvard University. Chambers has over twenty years’ experience in various church staff positions. He pastored for six years before joining the faculty full-time at MBU in 1997. He taught in the religion program before becoming dean of students in 2000.
Chambers is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, and several organizations for administrators in higher education. He also serves on the editorial board for Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal and on the steering committee for Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy, a faculty development retreat which meets each year at Oxford University.
Chambers’s main interests are his wife and kids, music, coffee, preaching, and writing for ministry resource publications like SBC Life, Lifeway Christian Resources, and The Pathway. Most recently he published “Da Vinci Code Fiction in a Post-Truth Society” (in The Pathway), “Sin and Providence in the Lord of the Rings” (in SBC Life), “The Promise and Peril of Postmodernism for Ministry Today” (in Intégrité) and “Myths, Genealogies and Old Wives Tales” (in Biblical Illustrator).
Chambers has been married to his wife Diana for twenty years and has four children. He and Diana live in west St. Louis County.
