Presences

Bishop Moore's life demonstrates the ways deep faith and strong social commitments can influence each other. Shortly after returning from military service, Moore entered the Episcopal ministry in New York City and was trained for ordination at the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea. At his first parish, Grace Church van Vorst, in a decaying section of Jersey City, he pioneered a new kind of urban ministry. As Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis, he struggled to reconcile his activism with the traditional social mores of the Midwest. In the 1960s, as Suffragan Bishop of…