Beverly Wildung Harrison

Career After serving as an assistant campus chaplain at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, she returned to Union Theological Seminary in 1966 to join the faculty as an instructor. She received tenure in 1980 and became the Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics in 1986.

Her first published book Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983), was a significant contribution to the discussion of moral issues surrounding the abortion debate. She was also a co-author and editor of God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (1985), a collection of articles by Christian feminists of diverse backgrounds, published by the Mudflower Collective. By highlighting the perspectives of women of color and lesbians, God's Fierce Whimsy helped challenge the traditional canon and methodologies of Christian theological education.

In the 1970s, Harrison co-founded the Feminist Ethics Consultation of the Northeast, a mentoring organization for women in ethics. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected president of the Society of Christian Ethics. She retired in 1999.

Works Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983) Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (1985) God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (co-author, editor) (1985) The Public Vocation of Christian Ethics (co-editor) (1986) Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics (2004)