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Jo Hudson is a spiritual leader, pastor, mentor, and community builder who serves as Senior Pastor of Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ (UCC), the world's largest liberal Christian church with a primary outreach to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.
Rev. Dr. Hudson joined the Cathedral in August 2004, after seven years as pastor of Friends Congregational Church UCC in College Station, Texas. She was overwhelmingly elected to serve as the Senior Pastor of the Cathedral of Hope in February 2005, making the Cathedral of Hope UCC the largest church in the State of Texas, and one of the largest in the United States, to have a woman Senior Pastor.
A native Texan, Rev. Dr. Hudson received her PhD in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University in 1993 and graduated with honors from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in 1994. She was ordained into the United Church of Christ in 1997. Rev. Dr. Hudson is the former President of the South Central Conference of the UCC, served for ten years on the Board of Directors of the UCC Justice & Witness Ministry, has been elected to the UCC Pension Boards on which she will be seated in 2011, is a member of the Forum on Military Chaplaincy, and currently serves on the Board of Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Sick of politics as usual, Main Street America seeks a new brand To hear some political candidates seeking the nation's highest office, America is a place where fear has replaced opportunity, a nation where the most vulnerable are costly tax burdens to be abandoned and, a place that, if one doesn't believe what they believe, your voice simply doesn't matter. This is a politics of exclusion rooted in fear, blame and demonization of others, and Main Street America is sick of it.
Thursday, November 17, 2011Sick of politics as usual, Main Street America seeks a new brand To hear some political candidates seeking the nation's highest office, America is a place where fear has replaced opportunity, a nation where the most vulnerable are costly tax burdens to be abandoned and, a place that, if one doesn't believe what they believe, your voice simply doesn't matter. This is a politics of exclusion rooted in fear, blame and demonization of others, and Main Street America is sick of it.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
The military may be open to gays, but it is far from offering equality The military may be open to gay people--a cause for celebration to be sure--but the military is not equal by any stretch, as some of the fear-mongers on the far right would have us believe.
Friday, October 14, 2011The military may be open to gays, but it is far from offering equality The military may be open to gay people--a cause for celebration to be sure--but the military is not equal by any stretch, as some of the fear-mongers on the far right would have us believe.
