Starr King School for the Ministry
President
Professor of Theology

At GTU since 1990

D.Min., School of Theology at Claremont
B.A., University of Puget Sound

Phone: 510/ 845-6232
E-mail: rparker@sksm.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Religion and Violence
• Unitarian Universalist Theologies
• Process Theology
• Religion and the Arts
• Feminist Theology - Interpreting the Death of Jesus

Selected Publications

• Blessing the  World: What Can Save us Now (Boston: Skinner House Books, 2006).
• Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us, co-authored with Rita Nakashima Brock (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
• “The Struggle for Racial Justice as the Struggle to Inhabit My Country,” in Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue, Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, Editors (Boston: Skinner House Books, forthcoming, 2002).
• “Education as Liberation,” in The Essex Conversations (Boston: Skinner House Books, 2001).
• “Tithing and Sabbath Keeping,” in Every Day Spiritual Practice, edited by Scott Alexander (Boston: Skinner House Books, 1999).
• “Rising to the Challenge of Our Times,” in Redeeming Time, edited by Walter P.Herz (Boston: Skinner House Books, 1999).