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Warren S. Benson Distinguished Christian Education
Award Recipients:

First awarded in 1991, the highest professional distinction given by the Society of Professors in Christian
Education is the Warren S. Benson Distinguished Christian Educator Award. The Benson Award
represents the acknowledgment, by the members and trustees of our Society, of an extraordinary
and sustained contribution to the field and ministry of Christian Education. This year we honor the twenty-
sixth recipient of the Benson Award, Dr. Kevin E. Lawson, Professor of Educational Studies at Talbot
School of Theology, and Editor in Chief of the Christian Education Journal from 2003-2021.

Warren Benson
Howard Hendricks
Kenneth Gangel
Lois LeBar
Mary LeBar
Don Joy
Jim Plueddemann
Les Blank
Larry Richards
Gene Getz
Edward Hayes
Marlene LeFever
Roy Zuck
Cathy Stonehouse
Charles Van Ness
Bill Bynum
Campbell Wyckoff
Ted Ward
LeRoy Ford
Julie Gorman
Dennis Williams
Michael Anthony
William Yount
Perry Downs
Jim Wilhoit
Kevin Lawson

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