Justice and Peace Studies Faculty

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer.  
JPST 250; JPST 340 (450); THEO 305; 
topics courses.

            Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, M.Div. is a graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota where he majored in Political Science.  He did his theological training at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where he received a Master of Divinity degree.

           Jack is the author of numerous articles and books on faith, hunger, the arms race and U.S. foreign policy.  His books include 

• Hunger for Justice:  the Politics of Food and Faith (Orbis Books, 1980), 

• Water More Precious Than Oil (Augsburg Publishing House, 1982), 

• The Politics of Compassion (Orbis Books, 1986), 

• War Against The Poor:  Low Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith (Orbis Books, 1989), 

• Brave New World Order:  Must We Pledge Allegiance (Orbis Books, 1992), 

• Families Valued:  Parenting and Politics for the Good of All Children (Friendship Press, 1996), 

• School of Assassins (Orbis Books, 1997), 

• his first novel, Harvest of Cain (EPICA, 2001), 

• Jesus Against Christianity:  Reclaiming the Missing Jesus (Trinity Press International, 2001) 

• School of Assassins:  Guns, Greed and Globalization (Orbis Books, 2001).  
  

• His book Is Religion Killing Us:  Violence in the Bible and the Quran will be published by Trinity Press International in Spring, 2003.

              Jack served as National Program Coordinator of the Politics of Food Program with Clergy & Laity Concerned from 1977 to 1981.  He directed the Minnesota-based Hunger and Justice Project for the American Lutheran Church and Lutheran Church in America from 1982 to 1984.  Jack has extensive overseas experience including a two-year period when he co-directed a house of studies in Managua , Nicaragua for the Center for Global Education, a program of Augsburg College .

             Jack is Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota .  He is also a writer and public speaker based out of Minneapolis where he lives with his wife and three daughters.  He is a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and is active in the faith-based Community of St. Martin .  

For more information, contact:
Rev. David W. Smith
University of St. Thomas
Mail 4137
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5325

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