Mark Labberton is the Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair at
Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian seminary in Pasadena, California, with regional campuses in the western United States. It is egalitarian in nature.
Fuller consistently has a student body that compr ...
. Before he became Fuller's president, he served for 16 years as senior pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California.
Early life and education
Having grown up in
Yakima, Washington
Yakima ( or ) is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's 11th-largest city by population. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. The unin ...
, Labberton states that he was raised in a home that disdained religion. Labberton embraced Christianity during his undergraduate years at
Whitman College
Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacifi ...
. After earning his bachelor's degree he went to Fuller for his Masters of Divinity. He earned a Ph.D. in theology from the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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. He was ordained in the
Presbyterian Church (USA)
The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PC(USA), is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the US, and known for its liberal stance on doctrine and its ordaining of women and ...
and served in pastoral ministry for three decades.
Works
Books
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As editor
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References
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Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Seminary presidents
Whitman College alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Fuller Theological Seminary faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Presbyterian Church (USA) teaching elders