Wife Sheryl Palmer
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10130 Manning Ave N, Stillwater, MN 55082
416 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Nadean Bishop (born March 6, 1932) felt called to go to Nigeria as a missionary when she was five years old.
Later she realized that only women missionaries were allowed to preach by Southern Baptists. Forty-five years later she matriculated at Pacific School of Religion, and received the M.Div. degree in 1985 and became pastor of the Northside Community Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a closeted lesbian. When she was called to pastor the University Baptist Church in Minneapolis in 1992, she became the first "out" ordained American Baptist LGBT person to be called to a pastorate.
During the intervening years, Nadean had married, had four children, completed a Ph.D. in Victorian Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, divorced, taught at Eastern Michigan University for 25 years, and recognized that she was a lesbian. As the American Baptist campus minister at the University of Michigan, she began to counsel with LGBT persons, and this became a major ministry while she was pastor at UBC in Minneapolis.
In June of 1996, she and her partner,
Sheryl Palmer, expressed their commitment to one another in a service at University Baptist Church, complete with communion and anointing with oil. They shared a home on a ten-acre horse farm in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Palmer passed away in 2015.
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