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The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams is a retired Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor living in Atlanta, GA. She has served churches in Atlanta and Chicago.
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The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams is a retired pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She formerly served as pastor of Morningside and Trinity Presbyterian churches in Atlanta and Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
Ordained for more than thirty years, she is a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary, Rev. Adams holds an honorary doctorate of divinity from Davidson College and was awarded an Alumni Association Medal of Honor from Emory University.
She serves as a trustee of the Presbyterian Church Foundation and as Co-Chair of the Joining Hearts and Hands Mission Initiative of the PC(USA). Formerly, she was a trustee of Agnes Scott College, chair of the Board of Trustees for Columbia Theological Seminary, and an editor-at-large for Presbyterian Outlook. In 2007, she was named Georgia Woman of the Year and was featured in Atlanta Magazine as one of the forty-five most loved Atlantans. She is known for building bridges both in the community and the church. Over the years, she has been especially involved in initiatives to combat homelessness and to build interfaith relations.
She and her husband of forty years, attorney Alfred B. Adams, have a daughter, a son and two grandchildren.
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The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams (PCUSA)The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams discusses a wide array of issues facing the Church and her own life. The two discuss the future of the Church, women in the priesthood and the changing world of worship in today's world.
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The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams (PCUSA)The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams sits down with Day1 host Peter Wallace and discusses some of the major changes in her life as a retired pastor, being a "loved Atlantan," the things that bring her joy, and the emergent Church.
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