Joan brown campbell biography
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Joan Brown Campbell
The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell' "is an ordained minister and a leader in the ecumenical interfaith movement. She is currently director of the Department of Religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution in New York. The Rev. Dr. Campbell served for a decade as the general secretary to the National Council of Churches, USA. She was the first woman to be named executive director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches. She worked with Martin Luther King and brought him to her own congregation in Cleveland; she served as a key election monitor in the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa; she negotiated with President Clinton and Fidel Castro to arrange the return of Elian Gonzales to his father. She has led peace missions to the Middle East and worked with the Rev. Jesse Jackson to free American servicemen held captive in Serbia. She was previously a member of the U.S. State Department's advisory committee on Religious Freedom Abroad
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Campbell, Joan Brown ()
The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell is the first woman to lead the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA as its general secretary. Her ministry has encompassed a broad range of responsibilities, with a strong focus on church unity, cultural diversity, and women&#;s issues. She fryst vatten a dynamic Christian leader and role model, advocating equality, peace and justice in the world.
She recalls:
&#;When I was much younger, I was privileged to know and work with Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a formative event in my life. His commitment to the beloved community inspired us when he was alive and informs us still. Martin Luther King was far from a saint, but he was a man of faith, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. One of the signs of t was that he often moved against his own self-interest and finally, as we know, he was required to give up his very life for his people. And we are all beneficiaries of that sacrifice. He constantly preached love your enemy.
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Joan Brown Campbell papers, --
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