Chris Hobgood, Disciples leader and anti-racism advocate, dies at age 83
Hobgood was the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) general minister and president from 2003 to 2005, and founded the Disciples Center for Public Witness.
William Christopher “Chris” Hobgood, an author and former top executive of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), died May 31 at age 83 at his home in Maryland. He had Parkinson’s disease.
Hobgood was the Disciples general minister and president from 2003 to 2005. He was also a longtime consultant to the Alban Institute and author of several books, including The Once and Future Pastor and Born Apart, Becoming One: Disciples Defeating Racism.
“I was blessed to be in pro-reconciliation and anti-racism training with him several times,” said current general minister and president Teresa Hord Owens in a Disciples News Service release. “His leadership in a transitional time called us to faithfulness in our witness as a pro-reconciling anti-racist Church.”
