Biography: The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Ann Parker has been President of Starr King School for the Ministry since 1990 and Professor of Theology since 2001, the first woman to serve as the permanent head of an accredited theological school. An ordained United Methodist minister, Parker has dual fellowship with the United Methodist Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association. She is coauthor, with Rita Nakashima Brock, of Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us and Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love for This World for Crucifixion and Empire. She is also coauthor, with John Buehrens, of A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century and coauthor, with Robert Hardies, of Blessing the World: What Can Save Us Now.

On her work as a theologian, Parker says “Legacies of violence, terror and trauma continue to bring anguish into the world. Now more than ever, people of conscience and love need to do the hard work of theological thinking that deconstructs religion that sanctions violence. We need to re-dedicate ourselves to the creation of life-giving theology and justice-making religious communities. This is the calling to which my life is devoted.”

A frequent keynote speaker for conferences, Parker's work has also been published in the Union Seminary Quarterly Review; the American Academy of Religion series on Religion, Literature and the Arts; the Journal of Religion and Abuse, and Open Hands magazine. She has contributed chapters to numerous books, including Christianity, Patriarchy and Abuse (edited by Joanne Brown and Carolyn Bohn), Soul Work (edited by Marjorie Bowens Wheatley), and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom. Parker lives in the San Francisco area.

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A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century Authors: John A. Buehrens, Rebecca Ann Parker Binding Information: Cloth  Trade Code: 00C Price: $25.95 In stock. Qty:

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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire Authors: Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker Binding Information: Cloth  Trade Code: 00C Price: $34.95  Backorder policy When Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker began traveling the Mediterranean world in search of art depicting the dead, crucified Jesus, they discovered something that traditional histories of Christianity and Christian art had underplayed or sought to explain away: it took Jesus Christ a thousand years to die. Qty:

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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire Authors: Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker Binding Information: Paperback  Trade Code: 00P Price: $26.00 In stock. A book that restores the idea of Paradise to its rightful place at the center of Christian thought "Only rarely is a single book an event. This book is such a rarity." —Professor Daniel C. Maguire, author of A Moral Creed for All Christians Qty:

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