Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, former executive director of the United States office of the World Council of Churches and former general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, is director of religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution. She currently serves as chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women and is one of the founding members of the Council of Sages for Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion initiative. Rev. Dr. Campbell is a highly sought-after lecturer. Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is available to speak on the following topics: The Gift of Age Our Interfaith Future The Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Twenty-First Century A Woman of the Movement: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Story of the Global Women's Peace Initiative Karen Armstrong is the bestselling author of The Case for God, among other books. A powerful voice for ecumenical understanding, she was instrumental in creating, launching and propagating the Charter for Compassion, a global, multifaith cooperative effort to restore compassionate thinking and action to the center of religious, moral and political life.