Mona West

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Mona West (born October 2, 1955 ) is an American theologian and pastor. She was ordained a pastor in a Southern Baptist Convention congregation in 1987 .

Academic career

In 1987 she received her Ph. D. in the subject area of ​​Old Testament from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville , Kentucky, and taught from 1987 to 1992 at faculties of various colleges and universities.

West joined the Metropolitan Community Church in 1992 . From 2001 to 2004 she was a member of the National Advisory Board for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. In 2002 West successfully completed a spiritual formation certification program at Columbia Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.

Fonts

  • Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible, Pilgrim Press, 2000. Edited with Robert Goss .
  • “The Raising of Lazarus: A Lesbian Coming Out Story,” A Feminist Companion to John, Vol. 2, Amy Jill Levine, ed., Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
  • “The Gift of Voice, The Gift of Tears: A Queer Reading of Lamentations in the Context of AIDS,” Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, Ken Stone, ed., JSOT Supplement Series 334, Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
  • “Outsiders, Aliens and Boundary Crossers: A Queer Reading of the Book of Exodus,” Take Back the Word, Bob Goss and Mona West, eds., Pilgrim Press, 2000.
  • “Reading the Bible as Queer Americans: Social Location and the Hebrew Scriptures,” Theology and Sexuality 10, March 1999, pp. 28-42.
  • “The Book of Ruth: An Example of Procreative Strategies for Queers,” Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship, Robert E. Goss and Amy Adams Squire Strongheart, eds., The Harrington Park Press, Binghamton, NY, 1997.

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SURNAME West, Mona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1955