M. Susan Harlow
Susan is interested in ways the congregation is an educating community - a place for religious formation as well as social transformation - religious community engaged in the continuous realization of inclusivity and justice. She has authored articles on Sophia Lyon Fahs, creator of the American Unitarian Association's "New Beacon Series" of religious education resources and who, in 1927, became one of the first female faculty members at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Currently, Susan is conducting research on contemporary adult education approaches in local congregations and working on a book-length manuscript exploring the need for theological thinking as congregational practice. She teaches courses in social justice ministry and advocacy, history and philosophy of religious education, congregational studies, curriculum theory, and family ministry in the 21st century. She is on study leave for the 2007/08 academic year.

She is active at the Peoples Church of Chicago and is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She lives with her partner Bonnie Perry, an Episcopal priest.