Rebecca Parker

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/ 549-4724
E-mail: rparker@sksm.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Religion and Violence
• Unitarian Universalist Theologies
• Process/ Relational Theologies
• Religion and the Arts
• Feminist Theologies - Interpreting the Death of Jesus
• Multi-Religious Engagements

Selected Publications

• A House for Hope:  The Promise of Progressive Religion for the 21st Century, Beacon Press, 2010.
• Saving Paradise:  How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, Beacon Press, 2008.
• Blessing the  World: What Can Save us Now, Skinner House Books, 2006.
• Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us, Beacon Press, 2001.
• “The Struggle for Racial Justice as the Struggle to Inhabit My Country,” in Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue,  Skinner House Books, 2002.
• “Education as Liberation,” in The Essex Conversations, Skinner House Books, 2001.