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Our Pastor
Rev. Jennifer S. Leath, Ph.D.
In 2023, Bishop John Franklin White appointed Rev. Jennifer Susanne Leath, Ph.D. to serve as the pastor of Tanner-Price AME Church; Bishop Frederick Alan Wright Sr. reappointed Dr. Leath in 2024.
Rev. Leath is an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, having accepted her call to preach and being licensed at Mother Bethel AME Church in 1999. Prior to Tanner-Price, she served as the pastor of Campbell AME Church (Media, PA), Allen AME Church (White Plains, NY), and Campbell Chapel AME Church (Denver, CO). Pastor Leath expresses her love for all people through her passion for justice and dismantling all forms of oppression. She especially demonstrates her unequivocal commitments to equity, diversity, inclusion, and indigeneity through her sexual justice work within the AME Church and Black religious traditions more broadly as well as through her research and writing. Also passionate about the ways diverse Christian traditions can pursue and promote justice together through ecumenical engagement, Dr. Leath serves as a Co-Moderator of the Joint Consultative Group between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Pentecostal Churches and a member of the Central Committee of the WCC.
Outside of her pastoral responsibilities at Tanner-Price AME Church (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), Rev. Dr. Leath is also the Queen's National Scholar and Associate Professor in Black Religions at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Prior to Queen's, Dr. Leath served on the faculty of Iliff School of Theology (Denver, CO) as the Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice and Director of the Master of Arts in Social Justice and Ethics degree program after completing her A.B. at Harvard University, her M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and her Ph.D. at Yale University. Dr. Leath also helped establish the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice (CARSS) at Columbia University, serving as its first Director of Research. Dr. Leath was a fellow in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2014-2015).
Beyond her numerous articles, Dr. Leath’s first monograph, Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics, was published in Fall 2023 (Duke University Press). Through this book, Dr. Leath introduces and develops "quare" possibilities for flourishing Black futures.
In 2023, Bishop John Franklin White appointed Rev. Jennifer Susanne Leath, Ph.D. to serve as the pastor of Tanner-Price AME Church; Bishop Frederick Alan Wright Sr. reappointed Dr. Leath in 2024.
Rev. Leath is an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, having accepted her call to preach and being licensed at Mother Bethel AME Church in 1999. Prior to Tanner-Price, she served as the pastor of Campbell AME Church (Media, PA), Allen AME Church (White Plains, NY), and Campbell Chapel AME Church (Denver, CO). Pastor Leath expresses her love for all people through her passion for justice and dismantling all forms of oppression. She especially demonstrates her unequivocal commitments to equity, diversity, inclusion, and indigeneity through her sexual justice work within the AME Church and Black religious traditions more broadly as well as through her research and writing. Also passionate about the ways diverse Christian traditions can pursue and promote justice together through ecumenical engagement, Dr. Leath serves as a Co-Moderator of the Joint Consultative Group between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Pentecostal Churches and a member of the Central Committee of the WCC.
Outside of her pastoral responsibilities at Tanner-Price AME Church (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), Rev. Dr. Leath is also the Queen's National Scholar and Associate Professor in Black Religions at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Prior to Queen's, Dr. Leath served on the faculty of Iliff School of Theology (Denver, CO) as the Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice and Director of the Master of Arts in Social Justice and Ethics degree program after completing her A.B. at Harvard University, her M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and her Ph.D. at Yale University. Dr. Leath also helped establish the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice (CARSS) at Columbia University, serving as its first Director of Research. Dr. Leath was a fellow in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2014-2015).
Beyond her numerous articles, Dr. Leath’s first monograph, Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics, was published in Fall 2023 (Duke University Press). Through this book, Dr. Leath introduces and develops "quare" possibilities for flourishing Black futures.
