In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. privately recruited Lawrence Edward Carter as a 10th grader to come to Morehouse College. Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter became the first Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel in 1979. He is now in his 45th year as the Founding Dean. Today, he is a tenured Professor of Religion, archivist, and College Curator at Morehouse College. For sixty-five years, Dr. Carter has studied and worked in fourteen American universities, colleges, and professional schools, spoken at over one-hundred different colleges, universities, and seminaries, and received over one thousand speaking engagements from eighteen Christian denominations, including Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist communions, and traveled to thirty-eight foreign countries. He has made over eighty radio and television appearances. He holds a BA degree from Virginia University of Lynchburg in Social Science and Psychology, a MDiv degree in Theology, a STM degree in Pastoral Care, and a PhD degree in Pastoral Psychology and Counseling from Boston University. He holds certifications in multi-disciplinary clinical training, clinical pastoral education, the editing of historical documents, and community nonviolent training. Dr.Carter was a 1994 Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in Brazil, and twice a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, in 1993 and 1996. His fourth book titled The Baptist Preacher’s Buddhist Teacher: How My Interfaith Journey with Daisaku Ikeda Made me a Better Christian has been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. His biography on Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, titled Walking Integrity, Mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. is the best-selling book, currently being published by Mercer University Press. Dean Carter is married to Dr. Marva Griffin Carter, an associate tenured professor at Georgia State University. They have been married 55 years. The Carters are the parents of one son, Lawrence Edward Carter, Jr.