Nathan Pederson, Ph.D.

Welcome to my organizing space!

Let me say a bit about myself. I'm both a practitioner and scholar, pastor and theologian. I try to think at the intersection of theology and life, to make a difference in how the average person thinks about how their identity is constructed and how it matters to those around them. 

I am a licensed minister and ordinand in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, through which my wife and I are in the early stages of building a ministry plant. I am also currently a part-time senior pastor at a small congregation in central Massachusetts. 

In my early training and study, I was both a youth pastor and seminary student at Trinity Divinity School (M.Div.) in the Chicago area. As a theologian, I trained and studied at University of Chicago Divinity School (M.A.) and Loyola University of Chicago (Ph.D.).

I find it most fulfilling when scholarship dances with everyday life, so I try to find ways to engage in and enact my learning in the midst of and for the Church and the world more broadly. My expertise in particular lies at the intersection of religion and mysticism, hermeneutical phenomenology, and the critical study of race and whiteness. My deepest training is in Paul Ricoeur and Nicholas Cusanus, and I use both thinkers to consider what whiteness is and does both in life and religion. 

I often like to put my thinking on the ground in conversation with my wife, Dr. Aderonke Bamgbose Pederson. Beyond building the ministry plant together, we also help facilitate difficult conversations amongst Christians about matters of race and social justice.