rodneypetersen

(Rev.) Rodney L. Petersen, Ph.D. is a Visiting Faculty member of the Duke University Divinity School. Most recently he was Executive Director of the Lord's Day Alliance of the U.S. and of Boston's Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries; for a quarter century he was Executive Director of The Boston Theological Institute (BTI), the ecumenical and interfaith consortium of theological schools, seminaries, and university divinity schools in the Greater Boston area. In addition to his work with the BTI, Dr. Petersen teaches in both the member schools and overseas. He is co-director of the Religion and Conflict Transformation program at Boston University School of Theology. He is a Church Historian, currently focusing on issues of religion and conflict. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (1980), he has served on several of their committees. From 1995 - 2002 he was interim pastor of the Allston Congregational Church (U.C.C.); and he has served on the Boards of several non-profit organizations. His numerous publications include The Antioch Agenda: The Restorative Church at the Margins, co-edited with Daniel Jeyaraj and Robert Pazmiño (New Delhi: ISPCK, 2007); Formation for Life: Just Peacemaking and 21st Century Discipleship, co-edited with Glen Stassen and Tim Norton (Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2012); ed. Divinings: The History of Religion at Harvard, 3 vols. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014); and Religion and Public Policy: Human Rights, Conflict, and Ethics, ed. by Sumner Twiss, Marion Simion, and Rodney Petersen. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he is married to Rebecca Sommer Petersen, has three sons, Eliot (28), Caleb (17), and Maximilian (15), and a daughter, Bethany (9). He has served on the Board of Directors of the Camp Wilmot Camping Association (New Hampshire) and with the Boy Scouts Troop Committee.