Dr. Harry L. Parker is a retired pastor in the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A. He served churches in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
For twenty-seven years Dr. Parker was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oak Park, Illinois where he was named Pastor Emeritus. For twenty years he was an Adjunct Professor at Northern Theological Seminary, primarily in the area of preaching. He is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He also studied at Brandeis’s Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem, Marquette University and Jerusalem University College on Mt. Zion.
Dr. Parker and his wife, Linda, have three grown children.