Baptist minister, ecumenical leader, chief executive and director
Years active
1970s-2010s
Known for
First ordained woman to be National Council of Churches president
Joan Brown Campbell (born 1931) is an American Christian minister and ecumenical leader. She has standing as an ordained minister in both the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church. In 1991, she became the first ordained woman to serve as the general secretary for the National Council of Churches of Christ USA. During her career, she also served as the head of the US office for the World Council of Churches, and later, as director of the Religion Department for the Chataqua Institution.[1] In both cases, she was the first woman to hold these roles.
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JoanBrownCampbell (born 1931) is an American Christian minister and ecumenical leader. She has standing as an ordained minister in both the Christian...
the money required to purchase the franchise), after New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson. She was banned from managing the team by MLB in 1993 due...
on January 26, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2022. "Rachel Maddow and JoanBrownCampbell to Receive The 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award". Interfaith...
where she collaborated with Nicholson yet again. In 1975, Kane was cast in Joan Micklin Silver's feature-length debut Hester Street, in which she played...
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650...
ISBN 978-0-8050-0060-3 Revolution from Within (1992), Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-81240-5 Moving beyond Words (1993), New York: Simon & Schuster...
together a children's book called Remember to mark the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 that declared racially...
Studies Journal. 7 (1): 15–23. doi:10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/46892. Hedrick, Joan D. (August 1997). "Harriet Beecher Stowe". In Richard Kopley (ed.). Prospects...
2011. Retrieved April 8, 2009. From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan...
Cherryh, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Joan D. Vinge, David Weber, K. D. Wentworth, and Catherine Asaro. On February...
has ever been announced. Ruby Wallace married blues singer Frankie Dee Brown in 1941, and began using his middle name as her stage name. The couple divorced...
original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2011. "Rev. Dr. JoanBrownCampbell". Huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2011....
comics to become a household name in the U.S., credited as an influence by Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others. She had a large...
Guisewite followed her father's vocation and began working in advertising at Campbell-Ewald, then Norman Prady, and settled at W.B. Doner & Co. near Detroit...
would eventually have six younger siblings: Samuel (married Antoinette Brown), Henry (married Lucy Stone), Emily (second woman in the U.S. to get a medical...
from members of the Council. Board members (2016) are: Rev. Dr. JoanBrownCampbell, president; Dr. James Doty, M.D., vice-president; Toni Murden McClure...
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