Most recently, Dr. Hunt is the founder and project director for Hope for the City: Transforming Urban Leaders, a Baltimore-based Transformational Leadership Development collaborative with the Ministry in the City HUB at City Seminary of New York and the Lilly Endowment. He oversees this national project’s planning, design, and implementation, helping develop transformational leaders to serve in urban ministry and nonprofit contexts. Founded in 2022, Transforming Urban Leaders (TUL) has trained over 1000 urban leaders in at least twelve American cities and Jamaica. He is also the convener of the Beloved Community Affinity Working Group (2024) and the Leading Wholeness Affinity Working Group (2025), in collaboration with City Seminary of New York and the Lilly Endowment. 

From 2004-2012, he served as the District Superintendent of the Baltimore-Harford and Baltimore Metropolitan Districts in the Baltimore-Washington Conference, where he supervised 88 churches and pastors in the greater Baltimore area. In 2008, he was the founding District Superintendent of the Baltimore Metropolitan District. That year, he was also appointed as the Executive Director of Hope for the City, an urban strategic initiative to strengthen churches and their communities in Baltimore. During his tenure, he led the Baltimore Metropolitan District and Hope for the City in implementing an aggressive and ambitious ten-point strategic plan, which included developing nine Communities of Shalom, sending over 600 inner city youth to camp for free, developing the Black Church Associate Pastor’s Program, and developing the Hope Academy and Urban Convocation to train/develop urban leaders.

From 1998 to 2004, Dr. Hunt served as the Executive Director of the Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry of the Northeastern Jurisdiction, headquartered in Columbia, MD. As the Center’s CEO, he provided national leadership in multicultural leadership development, congregational/organizational revitalization, and racial justice. His tenure involved working closely with the Multi-Ethnic Center’s Board of Directors as they engaged in a highly successful re-visioning and reorganization process, which resulted in implementing a comprehensive strategic plan, renewed vitality, fiscal growth, and expanded program development. 

While serving at the Multi-Ethnic Center, he also collaborated with Wesley Theological Seminary to co-develop/co-direct Doctor of Ministry programs in “Race, Ethnicity, and Ministry in Wesleyan Perspective” (2000-2004), and “Leadership in Multi-ethnic Ministry” (2005-2009). At the time of their development, these were believed to have been among the first Doctor of Ministry programs in America focusing on race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. During that time, he also developed and since 2006 has served as lead faculty for “Retracing the Steps of Freedom,” a doctoral immersion course on the Civil Rights movement and the principles of nonviolence in Alabama and Atlanta, GA in which—to date—over 350 doctoral students have studied. While serving at the Mult-Ethnic Center, he also served in 1999 as one of the founding faculty of the United Methodist Pastor’s School at Africa University in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. During that time, he also helped establish several United Methodist Communities of Shalom in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique.

Dr. Hunt has served as senior pastor of three other congregations in Virginia and Maryland – Asbury-Willisville Chapel UMC (Middleburg, VA), Ames UMC (Bel Air, MD), and Sharp Street Memorial UMC (Baltimore, MD). Each of these congregations experienced significant numerical, financial and programmatic growth, and engaged in building programs during Dr. Hunt’s pastoral tenure.

Among areas of church and community servant-leadership, Dr. Hunt serves as an appointed member of the Maryland Comptroller’s Faith Advisory Council, a member of the Baltimore County Executive’s Clergy Roundtable on Public Safety, the Wesley Theological Seminary Board of Governors, the St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute’s Executive Board, the Patterson Memorial Association’s (Baltimore) Board of Trustees, the Commission of Finance and Administration of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, UMC and the Vision Table (Board of Directors) of the Northeastern Jurisdiction, UMC.

From 2016-21 he served as the chair of the Baltimore-Washington Conference Board of Ordained Ministry (UMC)—which has responsibility for the administrative care and preparation of over 1300 ministers and ministerial candidates. He has been elected as a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s Jurisdictional and General Conferences three times (these are the United Methodist Church’s highest legislative bodies). 

Dr. Hunt has also previously served as an appointed member of the Maryland Governor’s Commission on Judicial Nominations (1997-2001), the Harford County (MD) Commission on Mental Health and Addictions, the Board of Directors of Harford County Court Appointed Special Advocates, the Strategic Planning Committee for Harford County Public Schools, the Board of Directors of Chesapeake (MD) Habitat for Humanities, the Board of Directors of the Harford County (MD) YMCA, the Board of Directors of the United Methodist Board of Childcare (Maryland), the Board of Directors of the UMC General Commission on Religion and Race, and the Board of Governors of Wesley Theological Seminary (he was elected as a Governor Emeritus in 2012, after having actively served from 2000-12, and was re-elected in May 2022 to serve as an active member of the Wesley Seminary Board of Governors).

A philosophical theologian, Dr. Hunt is also a Professor of Systematic, Moral, and Practical Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, where he is a Permanent Dunning Distinguished Lecturer in recognition of ongoing excellence in teaching and scholarship. He was the recipient of St. Mary’s Seminary’s annual Dunning Lectureship in the 2003-04 and 2007-08 academic years in recognition of his excellence in teaching and scholarship. He is Professor of Practice, Black Church Studies, and Wesleyan Studies at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA, and teaches on the core adjunct faculties at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, and Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. He is a Faculty Fellow and the E. Franklin Frazier Professor of African American Studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation in Sarasota, Florida. At United Theological Seminary, Dr. Hunt is the founder and senior faculty mentor for the Enacting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Beloved Community Focus Group (founded in 2016).

Previous faculty and administrative appointments have included serving as Dean of Haebler Memorial Chapel and Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD, as Director of the Center for Community Action and Social Justice at the Kay Spiritual Life Center, American University in Washington, DC, and as Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD. 

A graduate of the University of Maryland (BA in Economics, with Honors), he holds advanced degrees from Troy State University (MBA with a concentration in Management), Wesley Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity, with Honors, and Wesley Merit Fellow, with a concentration in Systematic Theology), St. Mary’s Seminary and University (Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Theology and W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow), Bethel University (Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership, with Distinction), and the Graduate Theological Foundation, in affiliation with the University of Oxford, UK (Doctor of Ministry in Applied Ministry and Pastoral Care, and Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology, with Distinction). His Ph.D. dissertation, defended in 2001, was titled, “In Search of Peaceful Community: A Theological Analysis of the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 2001, Dr. Hunt was selected and completed a 3-year Henry Luce Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral Fellowship at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ, where he focused on the study of Howard Thurman and the Black Church. He has also completed post-graduate studies at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK (Oxford Executive Leadership Programme), the University of Oxford, UK (Philosophy), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Professional & Executive Development Certificate of Leadership Excellence in Executive Development), and the Institute of Certified Professional Managers, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (he holds the credential of Certified Manager). He has completed training in Executive Leadership Coaching Strategies at the Harvard Extension School. He has completed training in CoActive leadership coaching with the CoActive (Coach) Training Institute, San Rafael, California, and the Life Coaching Certification Program with the Life Coaching Institute, Costa Mesa, CA (currently the Certified Life Coach Institute). Both of these programs are accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). He has also completed training in Discipleship Coaching with Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church and Excellence in Ministry Coaching. He holds the credentials of Certified Professional Life Coach and Certified Discipleship Coach. 

Additionally, Dr. Hunt is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the U.S. Army Officer’s Candidate School, Fort Benning, GA, served for 15 years as a commissioned Signal Corps officer and Military Chaplain, and completed clinical residencies in pastoral counseling at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC (1990) and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD (1995). 

In recognition of his leadership and contributions to the church and academy, Dr. Hunt holds the rare distinction of being twice inducted into the College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, with induction into the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers in 2019 and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars in 2024. Among other honors and recognitions, in 2008, he was installed as a Permanent Dunning Distinguished Lecturer at the Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary’s Seminary and University. This is the highest distinction bestowed on an Ecumenical Institute faculty member. In 2015, He was inducted as a Faculty Fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation. This is the highest distinction bestowed on a member of the Foundation’s international faculty. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Society of John Wesley Award of Merit and inducted into Wesley Theological Seminary’s Society of John Wesley, which is the highest honor bestowed on an alumnus of Wesley Seminary. In 2017, he received the Baltimore Faith Leaders Award from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Delta Lambda Chapter, and in 2019, he was inducted into the Pastor’s Hall of Fame at historic Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church in Baltimore. He is the 2023 recipient of By Faith Magazine’s Drum Major Award for national leadership and advocacy in social justice, and in 2023 he was also the recipient of the Dr. James M. Shopshire Community Engagement Award from Wesley Theological Seminary’s Community Engagement Institute. 

Dr. Hunt has lectured and preached internationally and has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine, the United Methodist News Service, Leading Ideas (at the Lewis Center for Church Leadership, Wesley Theological Seminary), and on National Public Radio, among other national media outlets. He is the author of 21 books, including—Soul Songs: Sermons in the Key of Life (2025); Meet Me at the River: Sermons and Meditations from the Margins (2025); Out of Mountains of Despair: A Black Theology of Hope (2024), The Catalyst: Leadership that Transforms Lives and Organizations (2024); Redeeming the Dream: Essays and Other Writings on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Social Justice (2023); Hope for the City: Transformational Leadership Development for Urban Ministries (2022); Things that Matter: Messages for Transformed Living (2022); Hope Sings: Sermons on the Psalms, Volume 3 (2021); Holding Onto Hope: Essays, Sermons and Prayers on Religion and Race, Volume 4 (2020); Songs for the Seasons: Sermons on the Psalms, Volume 2 (2020); I’ve seen the Promised Land: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 21st Century Quest for the Beloved Community (2020); Come Go with Me: Howard Thurman and a Gospel of Radical Inclusivity (2019); and Blessed are the Peacemakers: A Theological Analysis of the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. (2005); in addition to over 250 published articles and chapters on issues related to the church and society. 

 He and his wife, Lisa Elaine Hunt, are the blessed and proud parents of Marcus (deceased), Kristen, and Brian, and have one granddaughter. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family, traveling, reading, writing, exercising, sports, visiting museums, and listening to jazz music. His life’s purpose is to preach, teach, and live the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and his life’s theme is “In light of how good God has been to me, I have committed my life to serving God’s people.”