Protestant icons post job vacancy signs: Riverside Church, Union Seminary and the NCC
When Bob Edgar announced that he was stepping down as head of the National Council of Churches, someone suggested that he might apply for the soon-to-be-vacant pulpit across the street at the historic Riverside Church. Or perhaps a better fit might be yet another nearby position on Manhattan’s Upper West Side—the soon-to-be-vacant presidency at Union Theological Seminary, where Joseph C. Hough Jr. is retiring.
As it turned out, Edgar, a former Democratic member of Congress, returned to Washington to head the public advocacy group Common Cause.