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Note 513 by UMNS on Dec. 16, 1997 at 15:21 Eastern (2214 characters).

TITLE:	Interfaith group elects United Methodist

Contact:  Joretta Purdue  	701(10-71B){513}
		Washington, D.C.  (202) 546-8722  	Dec. 16, 1997

Interfaith alliance for political moderation
elects United Methodist clergyman Wogaman

	WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- The Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, senior minister of Foundry
United Methodist Church here, has been unanimously elected president of the
Interfaith Alliance.
	The alliance describes itself as a national grassroots organization promoting
a faith-based alternative voice to that of political religious extremists. It
claims 60,000 members from more than 50 different faith communities and has
100 chapters.
	"The Interfaith Alliance challenges those who, while claiming to speak for
all people of faith, use religion as a weapon to divide," Wogaman said.
"Instead, we grew out of a commitment to the positive role of religion as a
healing and constructive force in public life based on the shared religious
commitments of all people of faith."
	Wogaman, who was elected in early December, has held his current position at
Foundry United Methodist Church since 1992. The church has the distinction of
being attended from time to time by the First Family.
     From 1966 to 1992, Wogaman was professor of Christian ethics at United
Methodist-related Wesley Seminary here.
	He has been a delegate from the Baltimore-Washington Conference to the three
most recent General Conferences -- the United Methodist Church's highest
legislative body -- and was a member of the World Methodist Council from 1986
to 1991. He also served as 1976-77 president of the Society of Christian
Ethics of the United States and Canada.
	Wogaman writes a frequent column distributed by United Methodist News
Service.
     Newly elected vice presidents at large include the moderator of the
Unitarian Universalist Association, a retired bishop of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, an active bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and a Jewish
rabbi.
	Immediate past president is the Rev. Albert M. Pennybacker, a clergy member
of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and associate general secretary
for public policy of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
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