David Emmanuel Goatley is Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, a premier international Christian missions agency of African American Baptist heritage. A graduate of the University of Louisville and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Goatley is a former pastor and professor, author of Were You There?: Godforesakenness in Slave Religion and editor of Black Religion, Black Theology: The Collected Essays of J. Deotis Roberts.
