Lucinda Mosher, Th. D.

Dr. Lucinda Mosher is the current Interim Executive Director of Religions for Peace – USA, the US chapter of the largest global coalition of religious representatives dedicated to peace. She is well known for her work as a consultant, author, and educator on inter-religious matters. Recent clients have included Trinity Institute, Auburn Theological Seminary's Center for Multifaith Education, Columbia University's Middle East Institute, the Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding, the Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations Office of The Episcopal Church, and the Interfaith Relations Offices of the National Council of Churches of Christ USA. No stranger to RFP-USA, she was a facilitator for its 2007 Interfaith Academies, held in Kansas City, MO.

Dr. Mosher is the author of Belonging (2005), Praying: Rituals of Faith (2006), and Loss (2007)--the first three volumes of Faith in the Neighborhood, a Seabury Books series on inter-religious understanding. In addition, she has contributed chapters to several books and has published a number of articles on multifaith issues and Christian-Muslim concerns. She is also well known for her analyses of the spiritual legacy of Turkish mystic Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.

A frequent lecturer in the US and abroad, Dr. Mosher works extensively with Christian clergy, seminarians and congregations on concerns raised by America's increasingly multi-religious context, particularly regarding Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. Recently she has offered courses at Fordham University, The General Theological Seminary (NYC), College of St. Elizabeth (NJ), Ecumenical Theological Seminary (Detroit), and The University of Michigan-Dearborn--where she teaches the annual Worldviews Seminary (an innovative post-9/11 multi-religious project). As well, she is an instructor for the Multi-Faith Track of New York Theological Seminary's Doctor of Ministry Program.

A Christian ethicist in the Anglican tradition, Dr. Mosher holds the degree of Doctor of Theology from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and Master of Arts degree from Hartford Seminary, as well as other advanced training.

Dr. Mosher resides in Harlem and in Doctors Inlet (FL). She and her husband, educator and musician Barrie Mosher, have four adult children--each with families of their own