Rev. Dr. Zac Harmon-McLaughlin is the director of the Community of Christ Seminary at Graceland University where he also serves on the faculty of religious studies. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion in 2008 from Graceland and Master of Arts in Religion in 2010 from Graceland’s Community of Christ Seminary. In 2019, he completed his Doctorate of Ministry in Executive Leadership from the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Zac is an ordained minister in the Community of Christ and holds the priesthood office of Seventy. He has served as a full-time pastor, missionary coordinator and Mission Center president in various regions and states in the United States. He currently serves the church as a member of the Interfaith and Ecumenical Team and represents Community of Christ as a member of the Church World Service Member Board. He has had numerous publications for Community of Christ through Daily Bread and the Herald. Most recently, Zac was the regional development executive director for Community of Christ in Northern California and Western Nevada.
“I stay engaged in leadership development and practical ministerial application through religious education. My deep hope is to empower and inspire future innovative leaders and ministers to cultivate and create authentic, loving and transformative Christian community.”
Harmon-McLaughlin is passionate about peace and justice, environmental justice, and belonging. His research and study focus on post-church and radical ecclesiology. Harmon-McLaughlin considers himself a practitioner-scholar. His favorite quote is from theologian Anne Lamott, “The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.”