Devor, Richard C.
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Dr. Richard C. Devor is Senior Minister of Central United Methodist
Church, Detroit, Michigan.
A native of Detroit, he received his B.A.
from Cornell University and his B.D. and Ph.D. Degrees from
Dre~.r
Uni-
versity in Madison, Nel-l Jersey.
Prior to coming to his present position in June 1971, he was for three
years University Chaplain and University Lecturer in Religion at Emory
University at Atlanta, Georgia.
Before that, for seven years he
served as Chaplain and Associate Professor of Religion at Allegheny
College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
And, prior to entering Univer-
sity work, as an ordained minister of the Methodist Church, he served
local congregations for ten years in both New York City and Detroit.
Dr. Devor has published articles in scholarly Biblical Journals,
Pastoral Psychology, and various University Publications.
He speaks
frequently to church, college, and civic organieations and frequently
as lecturer for various church and campus conferences.
He is married, and he and his wife, Mary Ann, are parents of three
childr en, Richard, Jr., Susan, and Carolyn.
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He served a stuaent pastorate in Tobyhanna, Pa., and
t h e n was minister of St.
Luke's Church at Bronx, N.Y.,
, fr~m 1954-58. From August,
19t0, to May of this year he
. was on loan to the Institute of
Human Development in the
Texas Medical Center, Hous, ton. There he specialized in
marriage counseling.
He is married and the father
ofthree. ~~- -~
DR. DEVOR: From "runins" at university to liberal Central Methodist.
New astor
At Central
Is Activist
The Rev. Richard Campbell
Devor likes <to trouble the waters on behalf of the faith.
App ropriately he is the new
pasto r of the Central Methodi s t Church,- Woodward and
Ada ms, a traditional center of
controversy.
Dr. Devor has oeen commuting to the ch1,1rch on weekends from Atlanta, Ga., where
he has been university chap! a i n at Emory (Methodist)
University with seven pastors
from different denominations
under him. He'll be here full
time, July 1.
He acknowledged "run-ins,
· constantly more or less " with
the Emory administration. He
led a mqve to get rid of ROTC
as a credi't course on campus
and took part in a student war
m'o ratorium a n d o<ther pro- '
tests.
THE CENTRAL CHURCH,
one of the most liberal Methodist Churches in Michigan,
has been at the forefront of
peace and civil rights battles.
Dr. Devor, 44, son of a Detroit a utomotive engineer, was
pastor of :the East Grand Boulevard Methodist Church, Gratiot and East Gran'd Blvd.,
1958 to 1961, before joining the
faculty of Allegheny College,
Meadville, Pa., as associate
professor 'of religion.
DR. DEVOR once wrote a
626 pag~ document on "judgment" (his Ph. D. thesis at the
Theological School 'of Drew
University).
Devor, Richard C.