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Willis Jenkins
Margaret A. Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia
His research
focuses on environmental ethics, sustainable communities, global ethics, and theological
ethics. He is author of Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology,
published in 2008, editor of The Spirit of Sustainability, and co-editor of the forthcoming Bonhoeffer and King: Receiving Their Legacies for Christian Social Thought. Professor
Jenkins previously taught at the University of Virginia and at a rural campus of Uganda
Christian University. He has significant international experience in community development
initiatives, was co-founder of the Episcopal Young Adult Service Corps, and served
on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on World Mission, 2000–2006.