Rebind Scholar

Frances Taylor Gench

Herbert Worth and Annie H. Jackson Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Union Presbyterian Seminary

Frances Taylor Gench is the Herbert Worth and Annie H. Jackson Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, where she taught until her retirement in 2026. A Presbyterian minister and New Testament scholar, she writes on the Gospels, women in the biblical world, and how congregations engage difficult texts, in books such as Back to the Well and Faithful Disagreement.