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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 preaches
for the Bellevue 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."
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