Famous Members
The list includes members of United Church of Christ congregations of Evangelical and Reformed heritage.
- Donald Bloesch
- Walter Brueggemann
- Leon Jaworski
- John Williamson Nevin
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Richard Niebuhr
- Philip Schaff
- Richard Schweiker
- Bud Shuster
- Paul Tillich
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- John Winebrenner
United States President Theodore Roosevelt attended Washington D.C.'s Grace Reformed Church, an Evangelical and Reformed congregation. Roosevelt originally belonged to the Reformed Church in America (RCA), a Dutch-American group. Since there were no RCA congregations in Washington, he chose Grace Reformed as perhaps the church most similar liturgically and theologically to Dutch Calvinism.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or members:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)