Rev. Michael Burch

Rev. Michael Burch has decades of ministry, non-profit and university experiences, including university teaching and coaching at the University of California, Davis, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. He completed seminary training in the Graduate Theological Union-UC Berkeley joint MA program and a graduate degree in ancient Mediterranean religions and philosophies at Brown University. He was a faculty member at the Berkeley School of Theology for many years, teaching courses in Christian origins and public theology. He also has significant experience in interfaith collaborations especially among Abrahamic traditions, and 20 years of pastoral ministry at churches on West and East coasts, including The First Baptist Church in America (ca. 1638) in Providence, RI. Michael formerly served at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant coach. He has years of community organizing experience, including two nationally publicized student civil rights cases.