Moore Multicultural Center
Claremont School of Theology has established the Allen J. Moore Multicultural Resource and Research Center to support ministries that are meaningful and prophetic in an increasingly pluralistic, interconnected world. To that end, the Center provides a broad range of resources for use by students and local church leaders, and resources that represent intercultural and culturally diverse approaches to worship, teaching, aesthetic communication, pastoral care, and urban ministry. In addition, the Center sponsors research, seminars and resource development to enhance the Church's understanding of diversity and creative action.
The Allen J. Moore Multicultural Resource and Research Center is the prime place in Southern California where students and local church leaders can find and create resources that: foster cross-cultural understanding and communication, support under-resourced language and cultural ministries, support ministries of and with marginalized peoples of all races and ethnic groups, and enhance ministries for eco-justice and peace. For more information, please call the Center at 909-447-2549.
Ministry Collection
Print and media resources for the teaching, preaching, pastoral care, worship and urban ministries of the church, focusing especially on resources that are multicultural and intercultural, ethnically diverse, ecological and ecumenical, gender-inclusive, and interfaith.
Research Collection
An extensive research collection of resources for liturgy, homiletics, religious education, religion and the arts, pastoral care and counseling, and urban ministry. Provides students and visiting scholars with an historical collection, including oral histories, and a breadth of resources representing diversity in culture, gender, race, religious tradition, and regions of the world.
Program
Offers periodic workshops, seminars and research for students, scholars and church leaders.
Workshops: Exploring resources and learning to select, adapt and translate resources for particular contexts.
Seminars: Exploring critical issues regarding diversity, social justice, and the well-being of creation.
Research: Studying critical issues and creating responses to support churches in their ministries of justice and reconciliation.
Children's Story Time
A monthly Children's Story Time, with storytellers from diverse cultures, is held the first and third Thursday of every month from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Center.
Resource Development
Classes are held in which students engage in writing and testing resources for various cultures and contexts.
Bibliographic Services
A comprehensive bibliography of these ministry resources, with more than 5,000 titles, is easily accessible by computer through the BLAIS system of the Claremont School of Theology library. The library can be accessed by clicking here.
The resources located in the Center are available for use on site or for check-out (if you are registered with the Center). Materials in the Library circulate to library cardholders only, but may be used within the building.
The Center is located in the Library on the Claremont School of Theology campus. Call 909-447-2549 for hours.
Allen J. Moore
The Multicultural Resource Center is named for Allen J. Moore, Dean and professor at Claremont School of Theology from 1963 to 1993. He began at the school as Assistant Professor of Christian Education and became Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1987.
During his tenure, he initiated urban issues classes, which engaged in firsthand interactions with community leaders and the homeless in the city. He believed that the experience would help students better understand the people with whom they were going to serve. He also initiated classes in communications, human sexuality, religious education, and social transformation-among the first in the country. Further, he collaborated in sponsoring travel seminars and experimental workshops exploring the church's relationship to critical contemporary issues.
Allen's educational legacy continues to grow through the teaching ministries of more than 60 students whose dissertations he supervised during his three-decade career at the Claremont School of Theology.
He is author of several hundred articles and special publications on educational ministry, practical theology and the social mission of the church. His books include "The Young Adult Generation" and "Religious Education as Social Transformation."
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