Welcome to the Rev. Dr. Julie Faith Parker!

We are delighted to welcome The Rev. Dr. Julie Faith Parker to join us at the Cathedral on Sunday, October 6th. Join us first for an exciting Cathedral Forum where the Rev. Dr. Julie Faith Parker will discuss her latest book Eve Isn’t Evil (more information below). We are excited to then have Dr. Parker join us as the preacher for our Blessing of the Animals service at 11:00 a.m.

The Rev. Dr. Julie Faith Parker the Biblical Scholar in Residence at Marble Collegiate Church and a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, both in New York City. She was awarded the Ph.D. with distinction in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from Yale University.

She has taught as a professor of biblical studies at General Theological Seminary (NYC) and Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), in addition to teaching at Yale Divinity School, Colby College, and New York Theological Seminary, where her students were incarcerated in Sing Sing Prison.  An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Parker worked full-time in both congregational and campus ministry prior to doctoral studies. She lived in Paris for one year studying art history and loves speaking French.

Dr. Parker is the author or editor of many articles and eight books, including most recently, Eve Isn’t Evil: Feminist Readings of the Bible to Upend Our Assumptions (Baker, 2023), now in its second printing.

She is married to the Rev. Dr. Bill Crawford and they are the proud parents of two grown children, Graham and Mari.