Reverend Peg Chemberlin

Recently Reverend Peg Chemberlin has been appointed as the president of the National Council of Churches and she will hold this position for two years. She was also appointed by President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships to "serve on a council task force focused on economic recovery and fighting poverty" (NY Times).

The Reverend will be the twenty-fifth president of the National Council of Churches and she will be the fourth woman to serve as president. The National Council of the Churches is basically the leading group in creating cooperation among Christina religions in the United States. The religious groups include religions such as the Protestant, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Anglican churches. The group is currently working on building the Christian and Muslim relationship. These churches group together in this council in order to have some kind of communication.

This group sounds very interesting to me and it sounds like a great idea in order to have some sort of cooperation between churches. What makes me find this even more interesting is that they appointed a woman to be the president of this Council, which makes me like the idea of this group even more because it makes me believe that women are perhaps slowly gaining more rights within Christian religions. Other then this I hope to find out more about this group in this future because the work that this group is creating among churches makes me happy that I do not oppose everything that Christians have been doing.