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D. ALEXANDER BULLOCK

Rev. D. Alexander Bullock has preached throughout the Midwest, Northeast and Southern United States. As a teacher, he has lectured throughout the Midwest and continues to impact the lives of undergraduate college students in both Detroit and Chicago.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts; Bullock was reared in Detroit, MI, in the home of Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Bullock. After graduating from high school (at the age of 16), Bullock entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1994. In 1998 Bullock graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in History. Bullock then entered the Doctoral program in Philosophy at Wayne State University, where he is currently in the final stages of dissertation preparation. In addition to being a PhD candidate at Wayne State University, Bullock is also currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where he is receiving advanced training in Theology.

As a college adjunct professor, Bullock has taught Philosophy at the following institutions: William Tyndale College (Farmington Hills), Wayne State University (Detroit) and Saint Xavier University (Chicago, IL). In all this, he has remained committed to parish ministry, having served as the Assistant Pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church of Detroit (for five years) and having worked in the following other ministries: Morehouse College Chapel (Atlanta, Ga.), Beulah Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), The American Baptist Churches of Southeastern Michigan office and Brotherly Love Missionary Baptist Church (Chicago, IL).

He is the current President of the Highland Park Branch of the NAACP, the President of the Detroit Chapter of Rainbow-Push and the Chairman of the Issues Committee of the Council of Baptist Pastor’s. Bullock recently held an AIDS/HIV Awareness Conference where the keynote speaker was the noted actress and aids activist Sheryl Lee Ralph.

As a preacher of the gospel, Bullock remains committed to the cause of Christ and as an educator, he stands firm in the conviction that no student is unteachable and no goal is unreachable. Bullock was called to Pastor Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park on December 18, 2005.