Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts. She, then continued her studies at Duke Divinity School, earning a Master of Divinity and graduating Summa cum Laude.^[5] She was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1974.^[5] She ministered for several years as an associate minister in North Carolina and Massachusetts,^[6] before earning a PhD from Duke University. During her time in North Carolina, she worked with women who had experienced domestic violence.^[7]

She taught women's studies and theology in various schools from 1975 to 1984. She served on a task force of the National Council of Churches that produced an inclusive language lectionary, while she was teaching theology at Boston University in the early 1980s.^[8][9] In 1984, she joined the faculty at Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS), a seminary affiliated with the United Church of Christ. In 1998, she became the president of the seminary, the first woman to lead the institution since its founding in 1855.^[10] She served two five year terms, stepping down from the post in 2008. Alice Hunt succeeded her as president of CTS.

Thistlethwaite became a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in 2008, while also teaching full-time. She continued to be a public theologian, writing and speaking on matters relating to religion and public life. She wrote a column in The Washington Post for six years. She's contributed to articles for Theology Today,^[11] the Journal for Religious Education,^[12] and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.^[13]

• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. and Victor Gold, Thomas Hoyt, Jr., Sharon Ringe, Burton Throckmorton, eds. The New Testament and Psalms: A New Inclusive Version (1995)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. and Rita Nakashima Brock. Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States (1996)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. and Mary Potter Engel, eds. Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside (1998)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. and Glen Harold Stassen Abrahamic alternatives to war Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives on just peacemaking (2008)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White (reprinted 2009)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B., ed. Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome Project.
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World (2010)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. #Occupy the Bible: What Jesus Really Said (and Did) about Money and Power (2013)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women (2015)
• Thistlethwaite, Susan B. “Feel Awful? How to identify Trump’s Politics of Abuse and Subvert It” from Taking it to the streets : public theologies of activism and resistance (2018)