Bill Hendricks is Cofounder and President of The Global Centre for Giftedness, which seeks to mobilize a movement aimed at unleashing people’s giftedness for human flourishing. Bill also serves as the Executive Director for Christian Leadership at The Hendricks Center, a leadership development initiative at Dallas Theological Seminary. He holds degrees from Harvard University, Boston University, and Dallas Theological Seminary, and is currently a doctoral student at Bakke Graduate University. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-five books. Bill is married to Lynn Turpin Hendricks and is the father of three grown daughters.

 

Howard Hendricks received a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (1946) and a master’s degree in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary (1950). From there he and his Joan moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he became the pastor of Calvary Independent Presbyterian Church (now Calvary Bible Church). In the fall of 1951, he began teaching twice a week in Dallas. After a year, he quit to pursue a doctorate at Yale. But the seminary’s founding president, Lewis Sperry Chafer, died before the start of the 1952 school year, and theology department chairman, John Walvoord, was named president. Walvoord contacted Hendricks and asked him to delay his doctorate in order to teach at the seminary full-time. He would eventually earn a DD from Wheaton College Graduate School in 1967 while continuing to teach in Dallas.

Hendricks’ bestseller, Living by the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible (Moody Press, 1991), has helped hundreds of thousands of lay people learn the inductive method of Bible study.