Barbara Rossing first came to Holden as Waitri in 1973 and also served as Village pastor 1986-88. She is professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where she also directs the seminary’s environmental ministry emphasis. Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Basic Books, 2004); Journeys Through Revelation: Apocalyptic Hope for Today (Presbyterian Church USA, 2010); “Revelation” in The Fortress Commentary on the Bible (2014), and articles and book chapters on the Bible and ecology, including the Lutheran World Federation's publication "Creation-- Not For Sale." She chairs the Society of Biblical Literature's Ecological Hermeneutics section, and is active in public theology in both the scholarly academy and the church, working on climate change and the Bible. She loves working on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, including ecumenical responses to Pope Francis’s encyclical letter on climate change. She received the MDiv degree from Yale University Divinity School, and the ThD from Harvard University.To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org
