Marble Collegiate Church is under the leadership of Dr. Michael B. Brown. Marble Collegiate Church provides dynamic, positive spiritual direction to a diverse and embracing congregation. With a ministry beginning in 1628, Marble Church's current structure was built in 1854 and served as the base from which Dr. Arthur Caliandro and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, one of the greatest religious figures of the 20th Century, launched far-reaching innovations in practical Christianity. It was here that "The Power of Positive Thinking" was born.