The MH Program
TheMeetingHouse is a media launched in 1998 by Dr Dwight A Moody to promote conversation on religion and American life. It had consisted, over the years, of a weekly newsletter, a radio broadcast, a live video broadcast, and (in 2023), a series of live shows (in a four-state, seven-venue tour), plus this newsletter. Beginning in January of 2025, The Meetinghouse includes a weekly email newsletter, and a live broadcast on Sunday morning. All are distributed by email and social media. You can subscribe to one or both below.
The content of The Meetinghouse, beginning in 2025, will articulate a vision for the United States at odds with the Christian Nationalism now in the ascendancy in political circles. Dr. Moody hopes to fashion this material into a book on the subject, ranging broadly into both the personal and the public: from organized religion to spirituality, books and movies, politics and public life, business and enterprise, media and entertainment, and private morality and social justice. N
The newest feature of The Meetinghouse will be the Sunday morning broadcast, a live event distributed through YouTube, Facebook, and this website. It will continue the mission of engaging religion and American life with a particular focus on the de-churched population in the United States–those who have quit attending public worship (for one reason or another).
Your feedback is valued! write to dw**********@***il.com with recommendations of radio guests, topics, events, questions, and books to review.
The MH Host
Dwight A Moody has fulfilled his ministerial calling as a pastor, preacher, author, administrator, professor, social entrepreneur, and broadcast host.
Born, raised and educated in Kentucky, he graduated from Georgetown College (1972) and studied also at Jerusalem University College and Notre Dame University. He holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in systematic theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1982).
Dr Moody has served as pastor of churches in Holton, Indiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Owensboro, Kentucky, and Hendersonville, North Carolina. From 1997 to 2008, he was dean of the chapel and professor of religion at Georgetown College in Kentucky. In 2009, he founded the Academy of Preachers and served as its first president until 2017.
Dr. Moody is the author of seven books (including three memoirs, Heaven for a Dime: Memoir of a Small Town Preacher, It’s About Time: A Memoir of Ministry at Georgetown College, and Getting Things Done: Opportunity and Opposition at BSK) and many scholarly and popular articles (a collection of which was published as On the Other Side of Oddville). He is the editor of the festival of young preachers sermon book series published from 2010-2018 by the Academy of Preachers, now totaling nine volumes all published by Chalice Press. His latest book (2023) is a collection of the sermons he preached on The Epistle to the Philippians and published with the title Living With Hope. His weekly column on religion and American life is distributed each week. Interested persons may join the weekly readers by using the subscription feature at the bottom of this page.
To invite Dr. Moody to preach at your church or event, to write an article or column, to speak at your church or civic event, to coach you as a preacher, leader, or parent, or to serve as interim pastor, president, or executive, please call him at 859-229-8642 or write him at dwightamoody@gmail.
Board of Advisors
Katherine Stewart
Investigative journalist, author, and public speaker
Valerie Bridgeman
Dean & Vice President of Academic Affairs, Methodist School Theology of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
Lori Carrell
Chancellor, University of Minnesota at Rochester, Rochester, MN
Lawrence Carter
Dean, Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Bill Crouch
Founder and CEO, BrightDot National Fundraising Consultants, Raleigh, North Carolina
Charles Kimball
Recently retired from the Chair, Religion Department, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Everett McCorvey
Director of Opera, University of Kentucky, National Chorale, and American Spiritual Ensemble, Lexington KY
Bob Mong
President, University of North Texas at Dallas, Texas
Jay Akkerman
Dean, Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho
Tom Krattenmaker
Columnist, Only Sky, Communications Director, Yale Divinity School, New Haven CT
Molly Marshall
Author, Theologian, Columnist (Baptist Global News), President, United Seminary of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota
Jennifer Cronin
Teaching Professor of Business Communication, University of Notre Dame
Brian McLaren
Minister, author, public speaker
