Tom Thurston

Tom Thurston grew up in a small town in east Tennessee and spent 15 years in a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church called the Christian Brothers. His degrees are in theology. He taught high school religion for six years in the Midwest, and then went to Manila, the Philippines, to teach theology at a university run by the Brothers there. He came to the Bay Area in 1982 to do doctoral studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where he completed a Ph.D. and wrote his disser...