Rev. Dr. Angela Parker
Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology
Angela N. Parker, Ph.D. (Chicago Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received a B.A. from Shaw University and an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School. In 2018, Parker’s article, “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians,” earned second place in the Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion’s Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award, and in 2021 she published If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority (Eerdmans). Parker also co-edited with Mitzi Smith and Ericka Dunbar Hill Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation After Stony the Road we Trod in the Age of BLM, SAYHERNAME, and METOO in 2022. Parker is ordained with the Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina, and can be found on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok @BoozyBibleScholar.