Campbell dreamed of becoming a doctor but her father dissuaded her, so at the University of Michigan, she studied English and speech. It was there that she met her first husband, a law student named ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the first ordained woman to lead the National Council of Churches and the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches, died in late March at the age of 93.

A minister who headed the National Council of Churches, she was active in liberal causes in the 1990s and sought to counter the conservative Christian Coalition. By Trip Gabriel When Joan Campbell ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Joan Brown Campbell is a Director for Religious Studies in the Chautauqua Institution with nine videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1994 News ...

In the end, she is going to talk about faith, hope and healing. That is the theme for Week Nine, the final week of the upcoming summer season at Chautauqua Institution, which opens June 22.