Marcia W. Mount Shoop

The Rev.Dr. Marcia Mount Shoop (MDiv, PhD) is an author, theologian, and pastor. Her forthcoming book, Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Trauma, Transformation, and Transformation in the Church (North Atlantic Books), is available for preorder now and will be released in May of 2027. She is also the author of Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports (2014) and Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (2010). She is the co-author of A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed (2015). She also has chapters in multiple anthologies dealing with race, trauma, motherhood, and embodiment.

She is currently the Pastor/Head of Staff at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Asheville, NC.