Joan Brown Campbell, global and national ecumenical leader, dies at 93

Joan Brown Campbell, global and national ecumenical leader, dies at 93

(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. Campbell, who also was the director of religion at the Chautauqua Institution, was described as “an extraordinary ecumenist and activist” by Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the current NCC general secretary. “Her vision was always forward-thinking, and her energ…