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All Starr King experts can be reached at 510/845-6232.
Rev. Alma Faith
Crawford is Starr King's Associate Professor of
Preaching and Worship. She specializes in public ministry,
community organizing, parish ministry and hermeneutics,
race theory and ethnic studies.
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Dr. Ibrahim
Adburrahman Farajajé is Starr King’s
Director of the Starr King Luce Project for Multi-religious Theological Education, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Cultural Studies and Islamic Studies.
Farajajé specializes in historical and cultural studies of the world’s religions, especially Christianity, Islam and the faiths of the African Diaspora.
A practicing Sufi, Farajajé is an active member of an Oakland, Calif., mosque. His documentary, “Oceans of Mercy: African American Sufi Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area,” followed six African American Sufi Muslims to learn the personal meaning of their paths to faith.
Farajajé’s work also focuses on gender,
sexuality and religion; bodies and religions; as well
the intersection of popular culture and religion.
Dr. Farajajé will be on leave from his positions as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty during the 2006-2008 academic years. During this time he will be teaching and directing Starr King's Luce Project in Multi-religious Theological Education from the Middle East. Read
Dr. Farajajé’s work.
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Patti Lawrence,
Starr King’s Professor of
Congregational Studies, specializes in congregational
life that includes stewardship, growth, size transition
and dynamics, congregational systems and polity.
She supervises field education in congregations, including parish and community internships, for Starr King School and has a comprehensive knowledge of the Unitarian Universalist Association from years of work in numerous leadership roles.
Lawrence has focused her current research on congregational dynamics in Unitarian Universalist congregations with more than 550 members and is especially interested in how to prepare seminarians for multi-staff church leadership positions.
Read Lawrence’s work.
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The Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini serves Starr King School as Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of Studies in Public Ministry, overseeing the master's program in Religious Leadership for Social Change (M.A.S.C.).
A theologian and ethicist, she specializes in U.S. and global liberation theologies; feminist, womanist, mujerista theologies and liturgies; women’s studies; queer studies; theologies and films. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “The Allergy to the Other,” focused on theological and ethical perspectives on “otherness.”
Her current research also focuses on finding sources to develop and sustain a “liberating ethical imagination.” Dr. Lettini strives to embody a scholar/religious leader/activist model, integrating spirituality, theology and political advocacy.
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The Rev. Dr.
Rebecca Parker, President of Starr King School for
the Ministry, specializes in feminist critiques of Christian
doctrines of the atonement, theological reflection on
sexual abuse of children, religion and violence, and
liberal theology.
She is currently co-writing the book Saving Paradise with
Rita Nakashima Brock, her co-author of Proverbs of
Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search
for What Saves Us, released in November 2001 by Beacon
Press.
Read Dr. Parker’s work. Listen to her podcasts.
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The Rev. Dr. David Sammons, Visiting Professor of Unitarian Universalist Ministry and Heritage, is a long-time Unitarian Universalist parish minister who knows the Unitarian Universalist world inside-out at all its many levels. He is also a scholar of North American Unitarian and Universalist history, with a particular interest in the institutional development of Unitarianism, Universalism and our merged movement.
In his parish life Dr. Sammons was involved in a multitude of social justice issues and in interfaith work. As a demonstration of his eclecticism in parish work, Dave is the author of works as varied as his Beacon Press book, The Marriage Option, and a recent article on “The Tragic” in Collected Essays of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association. Dave has taught such courses as “Unitarian Universalist Polity from a Minister’s Prospective,” “Ministerial Formation in a Unitarian Universalist Context” and “The Controversies That Might Have Divided Us.”
Listen to Dr. Sammon's podcasts.
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