Anna Mercedes

Rev. Dr. Anna Mercedes is Professor of Theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in central Minnesota, USA. She is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She is co-director of the Becoming Community Initiative for transformative inclusion funded by the Mellon Foundation, and director of a project grant on the distortions of white privilege on theological pedagogy funded by the Wabash Center. She is a member of the Christ Seminar with Westar Institute and the author of Power For: Feminism and Christ’s Self-Giving and Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church. She is a quarterly blog contributor at https://www.counterpointknowledge.org/