Jim Antal ’78 M.Div.

Rev. Jim Antal serves as Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. He also is an Associate Fellow at Vermont Law School’s New Economy Law Center. Antal received the 2019 Steward of Creation award from the National Religious Coalition for Creation Care. From 2006 to 2018, he led the 350 UCC churches in Massachusetts as their Conference Minister and President. In 2017, Yale Divinity School honored Rev. Antal with the William Sloane Coffin Award for Peace and Justice.

Before leading the UCC in Massachusetts, for 20 years Antal was a local UCC pastor in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Newton, Mass. In the mid-80’s he served as Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (USA), an interfaith pacifist organization. Rev. Antal began his ministry as a chaplain and teacher at several schools, including Northfield Mount Hermon and Phillips Academy Andover.