A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, and an ordained Baptist minister, Dr. Paris is Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Black Religious Leaders: Unity in Diversity, The Social Teaching of the Black Church, and The Spirituality of African Peoples as well as the editor of The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York. He has lectured widely throughout Canada, the U.S., Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa.