Dr. Glory E. Dharmaraj
Leader for "Food and Faith"
Glory Dharmaraj is director of spiritual formation and mission theology for the Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. She is the staff contact for Spiritual Growth mission coordinators. She is also the administrator of the United Methodist Seminar Program on National and International Affairs at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York.
Glory spent her childhood on a tea estate in Sri Lanka. Completing her undergraduate and master’s studies in India, Glory taught at Sarah Tucker College in Tamil Nadu and Queen Mary’s in Mumbai (Bombay), India. She received her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago, and did special studies at Harvard University. She is currently completing her Doctor of Ministry, a joint program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, California, and Ecumenical Theological Education at the World Council of Churches, Geneva.
Her books include Concepts of Mission, Mutuality in Mission, Christianity, Judaism and Islam: A Missiological Encounter, and Many Faces and One Church, as well as the denominational geographical study on India and Pakistan. She has taught in several Regional and Conference Schools of Mission. She is married to a United Methodist clergy person.