An often-cited muse for a generation of clergy, activists, organizers, scholars, nonprofit administrators, and government leaders around the United States, Rev. Lynice Pinkard comes to UCCEG after decades of pastoral leadership, strategic accompaniment of other faith leaders, and her own risky faith leadership in the public sphere.

Pastor Lynice came of age personally and professionally in the badlands of the HIV/AIDS and crack cocaine epidemics of the 1980s. Later she envisioned and implemented a program that would help the families of victims of community gun violence grieve in ways that would deepen resilience, restore community, and begin to build the public will to address the underlying causes of violence. With masters degrees in divinity, sociology of religion, and counseling psychology and a fervent desire to see people healed and transformed by the Holy Spirit, she has a passion for gospel-rooted liberation that is unmatched.

Through powerful movements and organizations including the Movement for Black Lives (BLM), Human Rights Campaign (HRC), The National LGBTQ Task Force, Christians for a Free Palestine (CFP), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Highlander Center, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Lynice has worked locally, regionally and nationally to inspire and nurture a new generation of what she calls “resurrectionaries,” Spirit-filled servant-leaders dedicated to the remediation of day-to-day suffering, the building of collective resilience for transformative change, and the pursuit of structural and systemic justice in the world. 

In 2014, Lynice was interviewed by The Sun magazine for a piece she entitled "Dangerous Love: On the Revolutionary Act of Living the Gospels". Her writings include "Jane in the Blackboard Jungle,” "The Downward Mobility of God," "The Master’s Mehserle Can Never Dismantle the Master’s House, "Revolutionary Suicide: Risking Everything to Transform Society and Live Fully," "Wake Work," "We Never Told Them To Go and Sin No More," and the two pieces, "We Need the Funk" and "You Will Not Remain Intact" which she co-wrote with Nichola Torbett for Geez Magazine. 

Lynice has moved to West Chester with her wife Erica and their Old English Bulldogge, Magnum Grey (Puppa) from Efland, North Carolina.

Marty Meyer