The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell presently serves as the Director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution, a 134-year old center for art, education, religion and recreation. As the Director of Religion, she serves as spiritual leader and chaplain for the Institution. Dr. Campbell, formerly General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA, and Director of the US Office of the World Council of Churches, is an ordained minister with standing in the American Baptist Church and the Christian Church Disciples of Christ.
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
Tue, 02/22/2011 - 20:19
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Black History MonthExtending a naive invitation to Martin Luther King, Jr., to speak at her Cleveland church in the 1960s transformed her understanding of Christianity, shook the stability of her family and changed the path of the rest of her life, says the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell. Dr. Campbell is Director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution, an ordained minister with standing in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church, and a past General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Learn More about Joan Brown Campbell.
With a history of more than 40 years of working in the interfaith community for social justice in the United States, Rev. Joan Brown Campbell worked closely with people such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and former President Clinton.
She has served as the Executive Director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches and was the first woman Secretary General of the National Council of Churches in the United States reaching more than 45 million Christians. She was also one of the founders of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.
Her work has been published widely. She holds numerous national and local offices, including: Member, Ethics Committee, United States Department of Defense, past member of the U.S. State Department advisory committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, Trustee for the Council for a Parliament of the World Religions, the Fund for Education in South Africa, the advisory committee for Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, life member of the NAACP, Chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women and many others.
She received the The 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award along with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in October 2010.
Listen to some of her lectures at TheGreatLectureLibrary.com.
