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Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray (click here for a list of previous pastors dating back to 1793) In addition to serving as pastor at Charlton Freehold Presbyterian Church, the Reverend Dr. Stephen Butler Murray is the College Chaplain at Skidmore College, where he also serves as a member of the faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he served previously in campus ministry as University Chaplain, Director of Campus Ministry, and Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Suffolk University in Boston, Mass., and as Magee Fellow and Director of the Public Service Summer Internship Program at the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and as Sameul L. Slie Ministry Intern in the Office of the University Chaplain and the Church of Christ in Yale under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain of Yale University. In parish ministry, he has served as the pastor of UCC, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches. He also has taught in the fields of theology and preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and Auburn Theological Seminary, and in religion and literature at the Advanced Studies in England Program in Bath, England , in affiliation with University College , Oxford University. Dr. Murray earned the B.A. in philosophy and religion from Bucknell University, the M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Currently, he is working toward his habilitation (Dr. theol. habil.) under the direction of Professor Christof Gestrich at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He received his training in hospital chaplaincy in the Clinical Pastoral Education program of the Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., and trained as a rape crisis counselor at Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition in Lewisburg, Penn. Stephen Butler Murray serves on numerous community and professional boards. He is on the Ethics Committee at Saratoga Hospital, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Region Theological Center, which coordinates theological education for laity and clergy in the Albany, N.Y. area in cooperation with Auburn Theological Seminary, Bangor Theological Seminary, the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia , and New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He is a delegate of the United Church of Christ (UCC) to the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches, and he serves on the Board of Directors of both the North American Paul Tillich Society and the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale University. His teaching and research focus on Christian systematic theology and ethics, philosophy of religion, the interplay of preaching and theology, the influence of technology, race, and gender upon theological anthropology, and religious themes in literature. Currently, Dr. Murray is editing a three-volume set of books entitled God and Popular Culture, to be published by Praeger Publications in 2006. He is also preparing to publish his doctoral dissertation in two volumes, one a work in historical theology, and the other in systematic theology and homiletics. In addition, Dr. Murray is writing two other books, the first a theological text called The Social Dimensions of Sin , and the second a work in ethics entitled The Ethics of Forgiveness in the Wake of War. His articles have been published in The Journal of Religion (published by the University of Chicago Press), Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Koinonia, and The North American Paul Tillich Society Bulletin. He has also contributed entries to encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press and Greenwood Press. In 2003, he co-edited a book with David L. Bartlett of Yale Divinity School and Claudia H. Highbaugh of Harvard Divinity School entitled Crossing by Faith: Sermons on the Journey from Youth to Adulthood, published by Chalice Press. This book of sermons honors Henry Baker Adams, who served for forty-eight years on the faculty of Yale Divinity School, and who also was the University Chaplain of Yale University. Stephen, his wife Cynthia, a concert harpist and doctoral student in clinical psychology, and their son Hunter live in Galway , NY .
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