Rev. Frederick “Jerry” Streets is about to assume a new pulpit from which to preach in favor of changes New Haven hasn’t seen since the Civil Right era.
After a week of special prayer services, concerts and other events, he is to be installed this Sunday as the new pastor of Dixwell Congregational Church, the historic 194-year-old “Amistad” congregation.
Streets, a recent Fulbright scholar, has had many pulpits, religious and secular, in New Haven over the past four decades. He has served as a New Haven alderman, Yale University chaplain, police commissioner, and a clinical social worker with a PhD and an expertise in trauma.
Looking over those past 40 years, Streets said he would give New Haven at best a C+ for “turning compassion into public policy.”
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