

She currently co-chairs the American Academy of Religion’s Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group. She has been a member of the Pan Methodist Commission for the last two quadrennials. An ordained elder in the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church, Pamela pastored an urban church on the south side of Chicago, has done work for several UM general agencies and has strong connections within several mainline denominations. Pamela Lightsey is a scholar, social justice activist, and military veteran whose academic and research interests include: classical and contemporary just war theory, Womanist theology, Queer theory and theology, and African American religious history and theologies. Hudson holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies and is currently pursuing her Master of Divinity in Neo-Pagan Theology. In 2010 Mary was appointed by the Church to her position as Chaplain at SU making her the second Pagan Chaplain at a secondary educational institution in the United States. She is also a Third-Degree High Priestess, ordained in 2003 as a member of the clergy of the Church of the Greenwood. Hudson is the Pagan Chaplain at Syracuse University and has been working with SU students since 2002 as a Religious Advisor. Repairing the Soul: Spirituality and Moral Injury Format: Panelist discussion, moderated by Rev.
