Mark L. Chapman received his B.A. from Morehouse College, and the M. Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Chapman is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Fordham University. For the last 13 years he has also served as adjunct professor
of theology and ethics in the Masters program run by New York Theological Seminary at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. He also serves on the executive board of the Prison Action Network.

An ordained minister, Rev. Chapman served as Associate Pastor of the Grace Congregational Church of Harlem from 1987 to 1991; Assistant Minister at the Mariner’s Temple Baptist Church from 1993 to 1994; Interim Pastor of the Hollis Presbyterian Church from 2001 to 2002. He was called to serve as Pastor of the Hollis Presbyterian Church and was installed on November 23, 2008.

 

Rev. Chapman is the author of numerous articles on black theology and one book, Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power.

He lives in Hollis, Queens with his wife Teri and daughter Quincey.