The Rev. Robert Moore has served since 1981 as full-time Executive Director of the Princeton, NJ-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA), a regional organization dedicated to abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking at home and abroad.  Since 1989, he has also served as part-time Pastor of East Brunswick Congregational Church.

Since 2003, under Rev. Moore’s leadership, CFPA has quadrupled the number of its chapters (from 4 to 17) and doubled its membership (to 2,400 households). It is recognized as one of the fastest growing and most effective grassroots peace groups in the nation.

Prior to his current professional positions, Rev. Moore was for 3½ years the National Secretary of Mobilization for Survival, a nationwide coalition of some 250 organizations working for disarmament and the conversion of resources from military purposes to urgent human needs. Previously, he served as assistant pastor to an inner city Washington, D.C. church for 1½ years.

Rev. Moore is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wittenberg University in 1976, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Purdue University in 1972.

In addition to his other roles, Rev. Moore serves on the Public Policy Working Group of the N.J. Council of Churches; and on the Boards of Ceasefire New Jersey; the National Religious Campaign Against Torture Action Fund; and Princeton Boro Affordable Housing Board. He is on the advisory boards of Justice and Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ (national); the N.J. Office of Church World Service (CROP); and of the League of Women Voters (Princeton Area Chapter).

Rev. Moore contributed the preface and first chapter of the book Breaking Silence: Pastoral Approaches to Creating an Ethos of Peace (August, 2004 from Pilgrim Process). He is also the author of numerous articles, op-eds, letters to the editor, etc. published in newspapers throughout the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region.

Previously he served as Coordinator of Peacemaking Ministries at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary; President and Vice-President of the Princeton Clergy Association; Chairperson of the Outreach Commission of the N.J. Association of the United Church of Christ; Chairperson of the N.J. Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and of the N.J. Disarmament Network; State Coordinator of NJ Peace Action; and Coordinator of the N.J. Coalition Against War in the Middle East.

Rev. Moore has received a number of honors in his personal and organizational capacities: Outstanding Ecumenical Ministry in New Jersey (1982 from N.J. Council of Churches); Visibility Award (1993 and 2002 from National Peace Action); Citizen Hero (1995 from the ACLU); Community Service Award (1998 from Community House, Princeton University); Peace Builder Award (1999 from Princeton Rotary Club); Salutations from NJ State Legislature (2003 and 2006); Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award (2003 from Martin Luther King International Chapel at Morehouse College); Distinguished Leadership Award (2003 from NJ Council of Churches); Outstanding Grassroots Organizer of the Year (2003 from National Peace Action); co-recipient of Humanitarian of the Year (2005 from National Conference for Community and Justice); and Excellence in Membership Development, and in Student Organizing (2006 from National Peace Action). In 2006, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of serving CFPA, he received salutations from Governor Corzine, Senators Menendez and Lautenberg, and Rep. Holt.

Rev. Moore has traveled widely in his various peacemaking ministry roles, including trips to Hiroshima and Nagaski, the former Soviet Union, Germany, Scandanavia, Greece, Holland, Canada, and Mexico. He and his wife, Mary Timberlake, have three children, and reside in Princeton Borough.

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