Marcia W. Mount Shoop

The Rev.Dr. Marcia Mount Shoop (MDiv, PhD) is an author, theologian, and pastor. Her forthcoming book, Liberating Bodies: Collective Transformation in a 21st Century Whitelash, is forthcoming from North Atlantic Books in 2027. She is also the author of Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports (2014) and Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (2010). She is the co-author of A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed (2015). She also has chapters in multiple anthologies dealing with race, trauma, motherhood, and embodiment.

She is currently the Pastor/Head of Staff at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Asheville, NC.