Janet Parker

REV. JANET PARKER

NYC PRESBYTERY

Rev. Dr. Janet Parker is Associate Pastor for Parish Life at Rock Spring United Church of Christ in Arlington, VA.  She is an ordained Presbyterian minister who is seeking privilege of call within the United Church of Christ. She graduated with her M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1989 to serve a Taiwanese/Chinese UCC congregation in Staten Island, NY. She pastored Jan Hus Presbyterian Church part-time while pursuing a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, which she completed in 2001. Following the September 11th attacks, Janet served the Presbytery of New York City as Coordinator for Disaster Relief.

From 2002-2004, Janet taught Christian ethics at Chicago Theological Seminary.  During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in public theology at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion, and accepted a call to Rock Spring UCC later in 2005. For the past several years, Janet has served on a theological advisory team accompanying the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence initiative.

Janet's stole is one of ten stoles given to the Shower of Stoles collection in early 1996 by Jan Hus Presbyterian Church.

Martha Juillerat
Founder, Shower of Stoles Project
2006