He was educated at Harvard University and Pacific School of Religion. He lives with his wife, Dr. Thyra Endicott, in Palos Verdes Estates. Jonathan can be reached by email at [email protected].

The committee’s co-chairwoman is Rosemary Radford Ruether, a feminist theologian at the Pacific School of Religion. She said the group is circulating an online petition in support of Ellis.

Bridges was president of the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, California, from 1945 until 1950, and served from 1950 until 1954 as director of the Broadcasting and Film Commission of the ...