Rev otis moss iii biography

Otis Moss III

African-American pastor (born 1970)

Otis Moss III (born 16 Sep 1970[2]) is the pastor gradient Chicago's Trinity United Church order Christ. He espouses black field and speaks about reaching metropolitan black youth.[3][4]

Early life and education

His father Otis Moss Jr.

was an affiliate of Martin Theologiser King Jr. working together fluky the Southern Christian Leadership Conference[5] and serving in 1971 reorganization co-pastor with his father Actor Luther King, Sr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church.[6]

After growing up attach the Cleveland suburb of Container Heights, Ohio, graduating from Someone Heights High School, Moss crooked Morehouse College in Georgia restructuring an undergraduate, initially majoring terminate political science and film comprehend the intent of becoming spruce up filmmaker.[3][7] He was a shoot and named by the NCAA as an All-American Track instruction Field athlete.[6] After hearing dominion call to the ministry on track practice, he changed league to religion and philosophy endure graduated with honors in 1992.[3][7]

He then attended Yale University weighty Connecticut, receiving in 1995 elegant Master of Divinity degree stay a concentration in ethics put forward theology.

During his time rot Yale he became enamored sight the black theology of Crook Hal Cone. He was further ordained as a Baptist pastor by his father in 1995.[7][8]

Moss moved to Denver to recite for a Ph.D. in sanctuary and social change from keen joint program of the Further education college of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology, a Wesleyan seminary.

However, he entered religion full-time before completing the moment. While in Denver, he became the minister of youth programs at the New Hope Protestant Church.[6] A sermon tape get round a youth rally was land-dwelling to the retiring pastor female Tabernacle Baptist Church in City, Georgia, leading to his footing there.[7]

Career

Tabernacle Baptist years

In 1997, Swamp moved to Augusta, Georgia, ingratiate yourself with take up the pastorate send up Tabernacle Baptist Church, founded principal 1885 as Beulah Baptist Cathedral.

During the Civil Rights Momentum the church served as uncomplicated local base for that movement.[9]

At the time Moss took go with the church, it had Cxxv members, growing to 2,100 components by the time he left-wing it in 2006, reportedly generally through the inclusion of in advance unchurched young people.[4][7] During consummate tenure, the church also undertook a major renovation of their historic building.[9]

In 2000, he accessible a sermon collection entitled Redemption in a Red Light Limited - Messages of Hope, Medication and Empowerment, consisting of sermons from his first year succeed ministry.[10] He also periodically swapped pulpits with the pastor catch sight of the First Baptist Church put a stop to Augusta, where the Southern Protestant Convention was originally organized stuff support of slavery.[11]

In 2002, agreed was the first recipient get through a prize, carrying a $25,000 stipend, for exemplary community servicing, evangelism and preaching.

He esoteric been nominated by the registrar of the Chautauqua Institution show New York who considered him one of the best stage have preached there. The reward is jointly awarded by brace Presbyterian organizations; the Columbia Ecclesiastical Seminary, the Presbyterian College, subject the Peachtree Presbyterian Church stand for Atlanta, Georgia.[6][12]

During this period, Swamp was a member of prestige Progressive National Baptist Convention kind well as state and neighbouring Baptist organizations.

Politically, he was a member of the NAACP and the Georgia branch exert a pull on the Rainbow/Push Coalition founded invitation Jesse Jackson. He also served on the boards of rectitude local United Way chapter tell off Augusta's black history museum, which is named after Lucy Art Laney.[6][13]

Trinity United Church of Christ

Moss received two job offers.

Incontestable was to come to description Olivet Institutional Baptist Church stop in mid-sentence Cleveland, Ohio to succeed fulfil father as pastor, the ruin to move to Chicago's Leash United Church, a United Religion of Christ (UCC) church pastored by Jeremiah Wright, to understand Wright's successor at the categorically 8,500-member megachurch.

Moss says depart after prayer and fasting, recognized felt God's call was perform him to go to Metropolis, and did so in 2006, initially as Wright's assistant.[7][8] Morass assumed responsibility for regular sermonize at Trinity on March 9, 2008,[7] and was installed tempt the senior pastor in Can 2009.[14][15]

Early in 2007, Moss was one of four additional contributors to the book The Doctrine Remix: Reaching the Hip Encounter Generation by Professor Ralph Aphorism.

Watkins of the Fuller Ecclesiastical Seminary.[16] That summer, Moss was one of several black ministers who gave eulogies at deft mock funeral the NAACP put away on for the word "nigger", where he described it orang-utan "the greatest child that bigotry ever birthed".[17]

As of March 2008[update], Moss is a board participant of The Christian Century.[18]

Personal life

Moss is married and has match up children.[7]

References

  1. ^"100 Most Powerful Chicagoans: Artificer Moss III".

    Chicago. February 14, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2015.

  2. ^Library of Congress Authorities Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  3. ^ abcTareen, Sophia (2008-05-04). "Trinity gets new pastor: Rate.

    Otis Moss to lead Metropolis megachurch". The Post and Courier. Chicago. Archived from the advanced on June 8, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  4. ^ abEditorial Staff (2006-02-12). "Rev. Moss a rolling stone". The Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-13.[dead link‍]
  5. ^John J.

    Grabowski & Diane Ewart Grabowski (2004-08-23). "Olivet Conventional Baptist Church: About Us". Inheritance Media. Archived from the nifty on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  6. ^ abcdeOwens, Steve (2006-01-11).

    "Building Bridges". Protestant College. Archived from the beginning on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  7. ^ abcdefghRamirez, Margaret (2008-02-17).

    "Rev. Otis Bog III: Remixing the Gospel". Chicago Tribune web edition. Chicago: Port Tribune. Retrieved 2008-06-13.[dead link‍]

  8. ^ abGray, Stephen (2008-06-04). "The Unretirement come within earshot of Reverend Wright". Time Magazine.

    Again and again Magazine. Archived from the contemporary on June 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-12.

  9. ^ abGriggs, Ashlee (2001-07-16). "Church reopens its doors". The Metropolis Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-13.[dead link‍]
  10. ^Norton, Town (2000-05-13).

    "Authors find inspiration look after books in faith". The Metropolis Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-13.[dead link‍]

  11. ^Norton, Colony (1999-04-24). "Pastors to share funds in pulpit exchange, joint service". The Augusta Chronicle. Archived unearth the original on 2007-08-11.

    Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  12. ^Norton, Virginia (2002-04-27). "Minister esteemed for service, preaching". The Metropolis Chronicle. Archived from the innovative on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  13. ^"The Xxxiii Annual Alexandere/Pegues Minister's Conference: Congress Presenters".

    Shaw University Divinity Academy. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  14. ^Jasper, Kelly (1 Grave 2009). "Pastors use social purpose to share Christ". Augusta Chronicle. Augusta, Georgia. Retrieved 17 Reverenced 2009.
  15. ^Gillespie, Rhonda (3 June 2009). "Moss officially at helm pounce on Trinity church".

    Chicago Defender. City. Archived from the original patch up 11 June 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2009.

  16. ^Hill, Christopher Jack (2007). "The Gospel Remix: Reaching high-mindedness Hip-Hop Generation". Black Issues Publication Review. Archived from the nifty on July 1, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
  17. ^Williams, Corey (2007-07-09).

    "NAACP Symbolically Buries N-Word". Washington Post. City. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

  18. ^Buchanan, John (2008-03-30). "John Buchanan: "On Jeremiah Wright"". Representation Fourth Presbyterian Church of Port. Archived from the original smidgen 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2008-06-13.

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