Dr. John H. Parker was born in 1946 to Howard and Mamie Parker, a minister
and his wife. After attending Freed-Hardeman and David Lipscomb universities in Tennessee, he did his graduate work at the
University of Tennessee and Harding Graduate School of Religion. He has been a professor of English and Bible at Freed-Hardeman
and Lipscomb and has published religious materials. He is currently writing for the Gospel Advocate company. He has preached for
several congregations in Tennessee, and served as interim pulpit speaker for the Bellevue congregation in Nashville and most
recently (1999) for the Mt. Juliet, Tennessee congregation.
He is married to Dr. Jill
Roberson Parker, who teaches chemistry at Lipscomb, and they have two children, Robert and Sharon. Hobbies
include shooting and fly-fishing.
Dr. John H. Parker, 48, teaches Shakespeare, writing, and Bible at David Lipscomb University, and writes religious materials and
feature articles. He spends his spare time target shooting with European airguns, riding bicycles, fly fishing, and hiking with
his wife Jill. A graduate of Lipscomb and Freed-Hardeman University, he received his doctorate in English from the University of
Tennessee. Currently he serves as one of the Elders of the Granny White congregation in Nashville. "I hope to spend alot of time in
the future in Wyoming and in England," he says. "The fishing's good, and they're great places to write. But just about any place
Europe would be inspirational, and Jill and I hope to see much of it in the coming years."
