T Vail PalmerT. Vail Palmer, Jr. grew up as a member of Concord (Pennsylvania) Meeting, received his BA in philosophy and mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in ethics and society from University of Chicago's Divinity School. Palmer spent ime at Oberlin College's Graduate School of Theology and held a postdoctoral T. Wistar Brown Fellowship in Quaker studies at Haverford College. He is a former editor of Quaker Religious Thought. Palmer has been recorded as a minister by yearly meetings in Friends United Meeting, Friends General Conference, and Evangelical Friends Church International. He is a member of Freedom Friends Church (unaffiliated), Salem, Oregon. Palmer is married to Izzy Covalt. Between them they share eight children and thirty-some grandchildren and great grandchildren. He and Izzy live in Albany, Oregon. Read More Read Less