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Fred Plumer
President
After an extensive background in building management, real estate development and restaurant ownership and management, Fred Plumer made a career shift in 1981. He earned his M.Div. degree at the Pacific School of Religion while doing work in an inner...
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Janice Gregory
Vice President
A charter member of The Center for Progressive Christianity, Janice Gregory is a strong proponent of encouraging those who have not sought formal ordination to speak their spiritual truths and of providing sound tools that help individuals and gro...
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Daniel J. Donoghue
Treasurer
Mr. Donoghue is a Managing Partner of the Discovery Group, a merchant banking firm based in Chicago. Previously, he was the Head of the Private Capital division and co-head of the Middle Market Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Piper Jaffray &...
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Dan Senter
Secretary
Dan was recently voted in as Secretary on the TCPC Board. Dan is pastor of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Lafayette, CA. Attempting to manage Christianities slow mutation into post modernity. In a world with too much individualism &...
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Madison Shockley
Madison T. Shockley has been a TCPC Executive Council member since its founding and is currently the senior minister of Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad, California, where he was called to ministry in May, 2004. Pilgrim is known for its co...
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Honorary Advisor
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James Rowe Adams
TCPC Founder
In 1994, James R. Adams founded The Center for Progressive Christianity, a non-profit corporation that encourages churches to focus their attention on those for whom organized religion has proved to be ineffectual, irrelevant, or repressive. Wh...
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Hugh Dawes
Vicar, St. Faith's Church, London, U.K. Chair of the Steering Committee, Progressive Christianity Network – Britain.
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Karen Armstrong
A former Roman Catholic nun who teaches at Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism in London.
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Marcus J. Borg
Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University, and president of the Association of Anglican Biblical Scholars.
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Jim Burklo
Jim Burklo is an ordained United Church of Christ pastor who serves as the Associate Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. He is the author of BIRDLIKE AND BARNLESS: Meditations, Prayers, and Songs for Progressive Christia...
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John Shelby Spong
Retired Bishop of the Episcopal Church’s Diocese of Newark. He now devotes his time to writing and lecturing. Tapes of his lectures are available from Christianity for the Thi...
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Barbara Lundblad
Associate Professor of Preaching, Union Theological Seminary, New York. An ordained Lutheran pastor, she served a church in New York City for 17 years before joining the faculty at ...
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John Cobb
Professor Emeritus at Claremont School of Theology, founder of the Center for Process Studies, and cofounder of Progressive Christians Uniting.
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Staff
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Carolyn Clow
Administrative Assistant
Carolyn Clow started working for TCPC in the fall of 2010. Carolyn lives in Portland, Oregon. She is a full time mother of 2 very busy boys and has recently started a nursing program in the Portland area. She is actively involved in her c...
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Pedro Lopez
Web Management, Customer Service
I have been fascinated by the academic study of religion for the past 5-6 years. I am a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago in Computer Engineering and formerly worked for an engineering company called Elettric 80. Currently I wor...
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Sara Million
Communications Director
Sara Million joined the our team in May of 2010. Sara graduated Summa Cum Laude from Multnomah University in 1999. However, a Biblical Studies degree from a conservative, evangelical University did not expose her to progressive theology, nor an...
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Polly Moore
Rev
Dr. Polly Moore has been chosen by TCPC to be the part-time Director of the Liturgy Project. Polly has remarkable credentials for the task. She has a PhD in mathematics, was the vice president of Genentech Inc, a major biotech firm, and is a recent M...
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Deshna Ubeda
Associate Director
Deshna grew up in an amazing Progressive Christian church, IUCC, in Irvine California as a PK (pastor's kid) and so was blessed to be involved in a community that was open, educated, innovative, and inclusive. She was involved in the church at many d...
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