Princeton, NJ, January 31, 2008–Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, professor of pastoral theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will give the annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Thursday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Stuart Hall, Room 6 on the Seminary campus.

Cooper-White is the recipient of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors’ 2005 national “Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing” award and the Samaritan Counseling Center of Philadelphia’s 2007 “Spirit Award” for community service.

She holds two Ph.D.s—from Harvard University and from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago—and is the author of four books, including Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (Fortress, 2006), Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (Fortress, 2004), and The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church’s Response (Fortress, 1995), which won the 1995 Top Ten Books award from the Academy of Parish Clergy. She also has authored a small group resource book titled Women Healing and Empowering commissioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2000, and numerous chapters and articles on pastoral theology, women’s development, and pastoral care of post-traumatic stress.

Cooper-White previously served as director of the Center of Women and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. An Episcopal priest and pastoral psychotherapist, she is certified as a clinical Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and serves as cochair of the Person, Culture, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion.

The Women in Church and Ministry Lecture is sponsored annually by Princeton Theological Seminary’s Women in Church and Ministry Committee.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Its first woman graduate to receive a professional degree for ministry was Muriel von Orden Jennings, who graduated in 1932. There are currently 304 women students enrolled. Princeton is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with 660 students in seven graduate degree programs. For more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.