[10] After serving as an assistant campus chaplain at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, she returned to Union Theological Seminary in 1966 to join the faculty as an instructor.

She received tenure in 1980 and became the Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics in 1986.

[11] While at Union, she authored and co-authored several influential works on feminist Christian ethics.

Her lectures on "The Power of Anger in the Work of Love" and "The Role of Social Theory in Religious Ethics" were distributed widely among students and faculty, before being added to a published collection of essays, called Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (1985), which has been called "one of the best books ever published in feminist religious thought.

By highlighting the perspectives of women of color and lesbians, God's Fierce Whimsy helped challenge the traditional canon and methodologies of Christian theological education.