Pacific School of Religion
Senior Director, Academic Research & Resources
PSR’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
Core Doctoral Faculty

At GTU since 2003

PhD. Graduate Theological Union, 1998
M.Div. Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, 1988
B.A. Wheaton College, 1983

Phone: 510/849-8235
E-mail: jjohnson@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• American pragmatism and constructive theology
  
• Queer/critical social theories and theology
• Post-colonial approaches to theological discourse (especially in the Anglican Communion)
• Queer/Christian Theology
• Modern Church History and Theology
• Religious Leadership and Sexual Ethics

Selected Publications

• Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope (Morehouse Publishing, 2005)
• “Sodomy and Gendered Love: Reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican Communion,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible, edited by Emma Mason (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
• "Anglican Bodies: The Gift of Heretical Liminality and the Risk of Relaxed Vigilance,” in The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis: Breaking the Silence of Sodom (Binghamton: Haworth Press, 2005)