The Author
Trackless Wastes
and Stars to Steer By


Michael A. King, Telford, Pennsylvania, is pastor, Spring Mount (PA) Mennonite Church (1997-). He is owner of Pandora Press U.S., which publishes Anabaptist-Mennonite books in coordination with Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ontario as well as with Herald Press, Scottdale, PA, where he was book editor 1989-1997. He also owns InterLink Communication Services.

King was part-time associate pastor (1989-1993), Salford Mennonite Church, Harleysville, PA; part-time interim pastor (1994), Zion Mennonite Church, Souderton, PA; and pastor (1982-1989), Germantown Mennonite Church, Philadelphia. During much of that time he also worked in home repairs. He was pastoral intern at Diamond Street Mennonite Church, Philadelphia (1980-1982).

He is author of Trackless Wastes and Stars to Steer By: Christian Identity in a Homeless Age (Herald Press, 1990), of Fractured Dance: Gadamer and Mennonite Conversations On Homosexuality (a forthcoming volume in the C. Henry Smith series to be published by Pandora Press U.S.), and of numerous published articles in a wide variety of magazines and journals, including Christian Century and Christian Ministry, and monthly columns in Christian Living (1989-1997). He is co-author, with Ronald J. Sider, of Preaching about Life in a Threatening World (Westminster, 1997).

King holds a Ph.D. (1998) in rhetoric and communication from Temple University, Philadelphia; an M.Div. (1982) from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; and a B.A. (1976) in Bible and philosophy (plus social work track) from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, VA.

He served the Franconia Conference (Mennonite Church) Leadership Commission 1985-1991 and is now a member of the Franconia Conference Faith and Life Advisory Council (2000-). He is chair of Haverim, an EMU alumni group supporting the EMU Bible and Religion Department, and has been a committee member since 1996. He is also a member of the Eastern Mennonite Seminary Preaching Institute steering committee (1999-).

The oldest of nine children, King was born in 1954 in Sellersville, PA, but soon taken to Cuba by his missionary parents, Aaron and Betty King. He lived in Cuba until age five, then in Mexico (where he attended high school by correspondence) until age seventeen.

Michael is married to Joan Kenerson King, of Olean, NY, who is on staff as ministry associate at Salford Mennonite Church; a family therapist with offices in Paoli and Telford, PA; and a registered nurse who serves as consultant in various areas of public health policy. Michael and Joan have individually and jointly served as speakers and resource persons in many settings. They are parents of Kristy (b. 1981), Katie (1984), Rachael (1988) and share homemaking.


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