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Donna Schaper

Donna Schaper is currently Senior Minister of the historic Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Dr. Schaper describes the church as "a gathering place for people who seek spiritual nurture to build public capacity for social change." Among her current projects at Judson are developing a bail-out theater and "underground economy" while also building a public ministry training program for future church leaders. The church is also the home of the New Sanctuary Movement of New York City and of Occupy Faith and is initiating a new offensive to retain access to abortion rights. Rev. Schaper has been senior minister at Judson since 2005.

Schaper is the author of numerous books, most recently GRACE AT TABLE: SMALL SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS TO LARGE MATERIAL PROBLEMS. Her best seller is SABBATH KEEPING. Other popular selections among her 31 books include WHEN A PARENT DIES and THE ART OF SPIRITUAL ROCK GARDENING and GRASS ROOTS GARDENING: RITUALS TO SUSAIN ACTIVISTS. Her articles, opinions, blog posts, and essays appear regularly in a diverse mix of media, such as The Huffington Post, the National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners and Tikkun.

from: http://www.amazon.com/Donna-Schaper/e/B001H6WXP6

Donna Schaper is Senior Minister of Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She is the author of 29 books, most recently Grass Roots Gardening: Rituals to Sustain Activists from Nation/Perseus books. A new pamphlet is available from the United Church of Christ called "Twenty Ways to keep Sabbath." She also writes daily devotionals on the United Church of Christ WebSite, UCC.org.

Her current project at Judson Memorial Church is the New Sanctuary Movement, a place where immigrants about to be detained or deported can be sheltered. She also works on "Bailout", giving human beings a hand in a hard time. Bailout Theater meets every Wednesday at Judson with a free meal and great entertainment.

She runs a small consulting service for congregations and non profits called Bricks Without Straw which teaches fund raising, conflict management and how to do a lot with a little.

from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-schaper/

Donna Schaper is senior minister of Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She has written 30 books, usually concerning spiritual responses to material problems, such as Sabbath keeping for the time famine, and rituals to sustain activists.

She is founder of the New York City New Sanctuary Movement and an active community builder. When not pastoring or organizing or writing, she keeps a great garden in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and tends the earth. Check out Judson.org to see Donna's congregation at work or Grace at the Table, her blog about how prayer at table solves EVERYTHING.

from: http://ncronline.org/authors/donna-schaper

Donna Schaper is Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church. Deeply involved in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, she entered the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1969, earning a Master’s Degree in 1971. She was one of the first women ministers in the United Church of Christ in the early 1970s, and was a key figure in the feminist movement within the Church and within campus ministry during the 1970s, when she was first Assistant Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Tucson, AZ, and then Associate Pastor of Tabernacle Church in Philadelphia (also a chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania). She was a key player in Campus Ministry Women, as well as women’s groups within the United Church of Christ.

From 1976-1980 she served as Associate Chaplain of Yale University, as well as Associate Pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale. She was the first woman in each of these posts, as she was the first woman minister of the First Congregational Church of Amherst, MA, from 1980-1983. She then went to Chicago to be the first Executive Director of the Urban Academy in Chicago (now known as the Center for Public ministry). In that position she struggled to change seminary education to include training in urban, public ministry, as well as more private pastoral ministry. She did that from 1983-1987. Then she became the first woman minister of the First Congregational Church of Riverhead, NY on Long Island, where she stayed until 1993. She then became the first woman Area Minister for the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, with responsibility for 107 churches in the four western counties of MA. In 2000, she became the first female Senior Minister of the Coral Gables Congregational Church, possibly the largest church headed by a woman in the denomination. Her correspondents include many of the most important socially involved ministers in her denomination, as well as religious editors and writers across the country.

For 25 years in ministry she has been one of the best known feminist civil rights and peace advocates in the church. She is one of the most sought-after preachers and speakers in the United Church of Christ. She edited the UCC’s newsletter for peace and justice ministries for 4 years in the 1990s.

Donna Schaper is also one of the most widely published women ministers in the country, especially within the mainline church. Since the late 1980s, she has had 29 books published on everything from becoming 40, to understanding Sabbath, to spiritual rock gardening, to the differences between male and female ministerial styles, to devotional guides to different Christian seasons (Advent, Lenten, and the like), and most recently, from Nation Books, GRASSROOTS GARDENING: RITUALS TO SUSTAIN ACTIVISTS. This is without counting the hundreds of sermons she has written in this time. The papers contain many draft manuscripts, as well as the complete manuscript of one (unpublished) novel, “The Broken Bell.” They also contain all of her journals, more than 20 years’ worth of reflections, poetry, ideas for sermons, articles, and books.

from: http://www.shesource.org/experts/profile/reverend-donna-schaper

Klisy9 (talk) 17:46, 24 April 2016 (UTC)