About George Hunsinger

2016. My book The Beatitudes (Paulist Press, 2015) was selected as the First Place Winner in Spirituality by the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada.

2015-2016. Fellow, Center for Christian Thought, Biola University.

2011-2016. Delegate to the Official Reformed/Roman Catholic International Dialogue.

2010. Recipient of the international Prize, Union of Reformed Churches, Germany.

2009-2010. Participant, Templeton Foundation symposium, "Light from Light: An Exploration of Theological and Scientific Relationships Referencing Reality." Meetings in Istanbul & Oxford.

2006. Founder, National Religious Campaign Against Torture. nrcat.org

2003-present. President, Karl Barth Society of North America.

1997-2001. Founding Director of the Karl Barth Center, Princeton Theological Seminary.

1996-present. I lead a weekly verse-by-verse adult Bible study at Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ.

1995-1998. Member. PCUSA Commission to write new catechisms. Approved for use by 1998 General Assembly.

1993-1994. Sabbatical year in Switzerland. International Baptist Seminary in Rüschlikon near Zurich.

1989. Delegate to a meeting of "Liberation Theologians from the North & the South." Sponsored by NCCC. San Jose, Costa Rica.

1983, 1984. Good Friday Nonviolent Direct Actions against nuclear weapons. Arrested in Manhattan with .

1982. Ordination. Minister of Word and Sacrament. Presbyterian Church (USA).

1978-1979. Theologian-in-Residence, Riverside Church Disarmament Program. Assistant to Wm. Sloane Coffin, Jr.

1971-1972. DAAD Fellowship. Studied with Jürgen Moltmann at the University of Tübingen.

1967-1968. Taught in the NY Urban League Street Academy Program for high school dropouts. Watched the riots from my apt. window in Bedford-Stuyvesant after MLK was assassinated.

1967. My senior thesis: "Kierkegaard, Heidegger and the Concept of Death." Selected by the Stanford Humanities Program for publication.

1966. Summer Intern, California Farm Worker Ministry. Supported the NFWA Delano grape strike. Walked the picket lines with Cesar Chavez.