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Donald Macleod was a minister born and raised in the now-abandoned coal mining town of Broughton, Nova Scotia.

Education
He received A.B. and M.A. degrees from Dalhousie University and a B.D. degree from Pine Hill Divinity Hall. He received a Th.D. at Emmanuel College of the University of Toronto while a senior tutor at Victoria College. He was awarded honorary degrees from Pine Hill (D.D.) and Dalhousie (LL.D.). He was ordained and served pastorates in Louisburg, N.S. and Toronto. Eventually he became Francis L. Patton Professor of Preaching and Worship, Emeritus, at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Influence
Dr. Macleod preached in influential pulpits throughout the world, including the university chapels of Duke, Princeton, Muhlenberg, Rutgers, Lehigh, and New College, London; and in pulpits of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, American Preacher Series at Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto, Chautauqua Evangelist, Wellington Church in Glasgow, Scotland, and Fifth Avenue and Riverside Churches in New York City. He preached on “Church of the Air” of the CBC and was a guest lecturer at many summer conferences in the U.S. and Canada. He also mentored chaplains in the armed services.

He delivered several lecture series, and is the namesake of two yearly series in New Jersey. He was a member of the Advisory Council of Princeton University Chapel, editor of the Princeton Seminary Bulletin, the New Jersey correspondent to the Christian Century, and editor of Here Is My Method, a Pulpit Book Club selection in 1952. He was a fellow of the American Association of Theological Schools, conducting research in London. He was one of the founders and first president of the American Academy of Homiletics.

Late Life and Death
The Reverend Dr. Donald Macleod died on January 20, 2008 at his retirement community in Baltimore, where he had served as a head minister and had a weekly televised sermon.