Pamela R. Lightsey

Multitasking is one thing but operating in several vocations is "a whole 'nuther" thing indeed! I grew up in the 60s - a passionate activist for justice; among the first to be placed on a bus to desegregate an all white jr. high school miles away from my neighborhood. The fight for civil rights gave me skills that I have continued to use as a multi-vocational queer lesbian woman: theologian, ordained United Methodist elder, social justice activist, faculty and associate dean at Boston University School of Theology. When I write about queer theology, just war, homiletics or African American religious history, I do so in conversation with people who have experienced oppression and with those who fight for its eradication. When I have time I enjoy fishing, photography, reading fiction and sci-fi movies. All of these can be done in solitude. That lets you know how much of a true introvert, I really am.