Rita nakashima brock biography channel
For 18 years, Dr. Brock was a Professor of World Religions, Philosophy of Religion, Spiritual Biography, Psychology of Religion, Theology and.
Rita Nakashima Brock is Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America and the co-author of Soul Repair..
Rita Nakashima Brock
American scholar and Protestant theologian
Rita Nakashima Brock (born April 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American feminist scholar, Protestant theologian, activist, and non-profit organization leader.
She is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and a Commissioned Minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Early life
The daughter of Ayako Nakashima and a U.S.
Army soldier from Dorado, Puerto Rico, Clemente Morales Torres, she was raised by her mother and grandparents until October 1952, when her mother married Roy Grady Brock, a U.S. Army soldier and veteran of World War II. Her legal name was Rita Nakashima until Roy Brock adopted her in 1958, when her name changed to Rita Brock.[1] The period of her life in Japan and her first thirty years in the U.S.
is covered by her theological memoir, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Searc
