Petition & Names of Members

PETITION

WHEREAS religious leaders seek to promote various universal values, including love, justice, and truth; and

WHEREAS religious leaders throughout history have spoken out on moral issues; and

WHEREAS the official account of 9/11 has been shown by scientists and professionals in relevant fields to be false beyond a reasonable doubt; and

WHEREAS the official account of 9/11 has been used as a pretext for wars that have killed and maimed millions of innocent people and caused enormous ecological damage to our planet; and

WHEREAS the official account of 9/11 has been used to increase military spending and thereby to withhold needed spending for health, education, welfare, infrastructure, and the environment; and

WHEREAS the official account of 9/11 has been used to indict Islam as an inherently violent religion and to justify discrimination against Muslims and attacks on Muslim countries; and

WHEREAS the official reports about 9/11 have been produced by individuals closely affiliated with, or even employed by, the Bush administration;

THEREFORE we, the members of Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth, ask President Obama to authorize a new, truly independent, investigation into the attacks of 9/11 immediately, because such an investigation is long overdue, being owed to the 9/11 families, the American people, and the peoples of the world---especially the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The following are individual statements and endorsements which do not necessarily represent the whole religious affiliation without further consideration.

151 Religious Leaders have already signed the petition

Jim Ackerman

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington Click here to see statement.

Robert H. Adams

United Methodist Church

Retired Pastor

Rev. Ian Alterman

Non-Denominational Christian

Pastor, Spirit Fellowship Ministries

Disaster Chaplain through NYDIS (NY Disaster Interfaith Services)

Thomas Altizer

PhD University of Chicago

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Thomas E. Ambrogi

Progressive Christians Uniting, Past Board Member

Fred H. Anderson

Presbyterian Church USA

Honorably Retired Clergy

Gary G. Arndt

Retired Pastor

United Church of Christ Click here to see statement.



Mahmoud Ayoub



Faculty associate professor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary

Hartford, Connecticut

Professor Emeritus at Temple University.

Byron C. Bangert

Presbyterian Minister/Research Scholar/Columnist/Ethics Consultant

Member, Presbytery of Ohio Valley

Adjunct Faculty Member, Indiana University

Nabil A. Bayakly, Ph.D.

Muslims in Memphis, Tn. Chairman Click here to see statement.

Joseph D. Bennett

Presbyterian Minister

Hospice Chaplain Click here to see statement.

Ruth L. Billington

Retired Clergy, Presbyterian Church (USA)

Presbytery of Plains and Peaks, CO. Click here to see statement.

Rev. James D. (Danny) Borkowski

Retired Priest

Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East Click here to see statement.



Archbishop Robert M. Bowman, Ph.D.

Primate, United Catholic Church

and Bishop Protector, Society of Blessed John XXIII Click here to see statement.

Donna Brooke

Druid Priestess in Britain

Archdruidess of the Glastonbury Order of Druids

Karin Brothers

Co-chair of World Affairs

Committee of the United Church of Canada's Toronto Conference.

Raymond Kay Brown

Presbyterian Church USA

Retired Pastor

Robert Browne

United Presbyterian Church

Retired minister and governing body executive Click here to see statement.



Marilyn Brunger

Presbyterian

Elder in Presbyterian Church

Past Moderator of United Church of Christ Local Church

Rev. Roger S. Burkhart

United Church of Christ

Chair of the Spirituality and Earth Stewardship Committee of the New Hampshire Conference of the United Church of Christ

Click here to see statement.

Marion Burton

United Church of Christ

Local Church Circle Leader

Ignacio Castuera

United Methodist Minister

Trinity United Methodist Church

Pomona, CA.

Rev. Donald F. Chatfield

Presbyterian Church (USA)

Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Rev. Judith Lane Chatfield

United Church of Christ

Retired Minister and Teacher

Dr. Carol P. Christ

Leader in the Women's Spirituality/Goddess/Ecofeminst Movement

Author

Ph.D. in Religion from Yale

Elizabeth J. Clarke

United Methodist Church

Retired Missionary

John B. Cobb, Jr.

PhD, Professor Emeritus of Theology

Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California

David D. Cockcroft

Presbyterian minister Click here to see statement.

George Crowell

Professor, retired, Social Ethics in the Department of Religious Studies,

University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Lifetime member, Society of Christian Ethics

Convener, Monetary Policy Interest Group, Society of Christian Ethics Click here to see statement.

Rev. Dr. Richard Curtis

Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Seattle, WA.

James Douglass

Catholic Worker, writer

Mary's House, Birmingham, Alabama

Rev. Martin Edward Duffield

Presbyterian Church of Australia

Pastor Click here to see statement.



Rev. Marvin M. Ellison, Ph.D.

Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics

Bangor Theological Seminary

Portland, Maine

Gracia Fay Ellwood

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Orange Grove Monthly Meeting, Pasadena, California.

Editor of THE PEACEABLE TABLE, project of the Animal Kinship Committee

MA , University of Chicago Divinity School

PhD in the philosophy of religion from Claremont Graduate University Click here to see statement.

Judith L. Favor

Quaker

Retired Pastor

Loren R. Fisher

Retired professor of Hebrew Bible (The School of Theology at Claremont)

Affiliated with The Disciples of Christ

Author of 9 books since 2000. Click here to see statement.

James A. Fiske

United Methodist Church

Missionary and Pastor

William F. Fore, Ph.D.

President Emeritus

World Association for Christian Communication

James H. Gailey

Professor Emeritus

A Protestant Theological Seminary Click here to see statement.

Rev. Dr. Sue Gallagher

United Church of Christ

Retired Pastor

David L. Garshaw

Disciples of Christ

Pastor, First Christian Church

Portsmouth, Ohio

Noel Glynn

Quaker

Elder of Streatham Local Meeting, South London Area Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting



The Rev. Dr. Helen Goggin

The Presbyterian Church in Canada

Minister, Professor Emerita, Religious Education, Knox College

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Click here to see statement.

Sharon R. Graff

Pastor and Teacher

Redlands United Church of Christ, Redlands, CA

MA Claremont School of Theology; D.Min. San Francisco Theological Seminary

Tom Graham

Ordained Buddhist priest with the Center for American Buddhist Practice

Co-founder of Center for American Buddhist Practice

Translator of many Buddhist texts from Chinese to English

Buddhist teacher for many years in San Diego

Dr. Herman Greene

United Church of Christ

Ordained Minister

David Ray Griffin

PhD, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University

Claremont, California.

Rev. Virginia B. Hall

Episcopal priest

Assistant to the Rector, Trinity Church

Bloomington, IN.

Board member of New Leaf/ New Life Prison Ministry Click here to see statement.

Grace Hansen

Center for American Buddhist Practice

Senior Buddhist Priest

San Diego, California Click here to see statement.



Rebecca Hardcastle

Ordained Elder in United Methodist Church

Ruth Harris

United Methodist Church

International Mission Staff (Retired)



Rev. Wayne (Chris) Hartmire

Presbyterian

Retired Pastor

Former Executive Director of California Migrant Ministry & National Farmworker Ministry, 1961-1981

Dimitrios Hatgistavrou

Greek Orthodox Church

Past President of Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons (6 years) - presently Vice-President

Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Sufi leader and author

Dan Hennen

Endowment Committee Member and Chief Usher

St. Paul Lutheran Church

Jordan, MN



Dwight Hoelsher

United Church of Christ

Retired Minister

Carolyn Horvath

Interdenominational and Interfaith

Co-Director of Hope House of Prayer Click here to see statement.



Joseph C. Hough, Jr.

President emeritus and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics emeritus

Union Theological Seminary New York, NY

Ordained minister of the United Church of Christ

Norman W. Jackson

United Church of Christ

Retired theological educator

Former leader of Council for American Indian Ministry



Robin Jarrell

Episcopal Priest serving at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church

Sunbury, PA., Diocese of Central PA. Click here to see statement.

Beth Johnson

Minister, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Vista, CA

M.Div., D. Min, Claremont School of Theology. Click here to see statement.

Dorothy E. Jones

United Methodist Church

Retired Missionary

Rev. Dr. Neal Jones

Minister of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Columbia, SC.

Master of Divinity , Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Baylor University. Click here to see statement.



Richard E. Keady

Coordinator, Comparative Religious Studies Program

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

Faculty member in the Comparative Religious Studies Program at San Jose State University since 1972. Click here to see statement.

Canon Brian Scott Kelley

Retired Canon for Social Action

St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral

Boston , MA. Click here to see statement.

Carol Kelling C.S.

Christian Science Practitioner

Phoenix, Oregon Click here to see statement.

Dr. Faiz Khan, M.D.

Founding member of American Sufi Muslim Association

Assistant imam at Islamic Center of Long Island

Co-founder of the Muslim - Jewish - Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth

Bob Kinsey

Retired Clergy, United Church of Christ.

Rocky Mountain Conference

Long term Chair of the Peace and Justice Task Force Click here to see statement.

Rev. Paul Kittlaus

United Church of Christ

Pastor, organizer and author

Rev. Thomas Klein

Orthodox Christian Priest

South Central PA.



Reverend Rich Lang

Trinity United Methodist Church

Seattle, Washington

Rev. Dr. Werner Lange

Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary in 1994

Ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the United Church of Christ in 1996

Pastor of two UCC churches until 2003

Professor of religion and society at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Active in interfaith peace activities

Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, Ph.D.

Buddhist

Faculty, Loyola University Chicago, Theology Dept.

Graduate Theological Union

Dharma Teacher,

Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

Rev. Mark S. Lemon

Anglican Church Priest

Thomas J. Leonhardt

non-mainline Christian

Pastor of Emmaus Community

Co-Director Hope House of Prayer, Inc.

Mentor Teacher Dances of Universal Peace

Spiritual Director

Cleveland, Ohio, USA Click here to see statement.

Bishop Ioan Lightoller

Bishop of the Friends Community Catholic Church

(Old Catholic jurisdiction in the United States) Click here to see statement.

Rev. John-Otto Liljenstolpe

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

Ordained minister Click here to see statement.

Dennis Linn

Catholic/Ecumenical

Author, Retreat Leader

Re-Member Ministries

M. of Divinity Click here to see member statement.

Matt Linn, S. J.

Catholic priest

Author, Retreat Leader

Re-Member Ministries Click here to see statement.

Sheila Linn

Catholic/Ecumenical

Author, Retreat Leader

Re-Member Ministries

M. of Divinity Click here to see statement.



Davidson Loehr

First Unitarian Universalist Church

Austin, Texas.

Jeffery D. Long

Professional Scholar of and Theologian within the Hindu tradition

Frequent Educator to the larger American community on Hinduism

Elizabethtown College

Elizbabethtown, PA Click here to see member statement.

Sandra Lubarsky

Jewish theologian and Professor of Religious Studies

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Father Lawrence Lucas

Roman Catholic priest

Deputy Director, City of NY Correction Department

Graeme MacQueen, PhD

Retired Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Founding Director of McMaster Centre for Peace Studies

Member of the Movement for a Socially Engaged Buddhism

Author and Speaker on 9/11 Research Topics Click here to see statement.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth MacQueen

Former President Huntington University

Former Principal Vancouver School of Theology



Terri Mansfield

Lay leader

Madonna Ministry

Rollo Maughfling

Archdruid of Stonehenge and Britain

Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

Catholic Priest

Former Spiritual Director and Rector of St. Gregory the Theologian Byzantine Catholic Melkite Seminary

Retreat Director, Author and Lecturer on the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospels and His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies for 45 years Click here to see statement.

Dr. Jay McDaniel

United Methodist Church

Professor and Author

James M. McLachlan

Professor Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

President, Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology

Co-Chair Mormon Studies Consultation, American Academy of Religion

Dr. Stuart D. McLean

Presbyterian USA

Professor emeritus, Ethics and Theology, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK.

Sarah McMahan

Spiritual director, retreat leader, member of an alternative Catholic faith community and a participant in the local Friends group and the local ministerial alliance Click here to see statement.



Dan Metzger

Unitarian Universalist

Chaplain, eldercare facility in Chicago suburbs

Master of Divinity degree, University of Chicago

Thomas L. Milligan

Retired

M.Div., Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 1975

Anselm Min

Professor of Religion

Claremont Graduate University

Father Frank Morales

St. Mark's Episcopal Church

New York City, New York.

William Moremen

United Church of Christ

Retired Pastor

Rev. Roger Morimoto

Pastor, Aldersgate United Methodist Church

Palo Alto, California Click here to see statement.

Beth Mueller

United Methodist Church

Seminary student

Elders orders

The Rev.Dr. Leslie A. Muray

Episcopalian

Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Curry College, Milton ,MA

Associate Priest at Trinity Episcopal Church, Canton, MA Click here to see statement.

Rev. Dr. Kyle Nash

Unitarian Universalist

Medical educator Click here to see statement.

Richard M. Nelson

Presbyterian Church - USA

Minister of Word and Sacrament

Retired Minister, PCUSA Click here to see statement.

Sr. Axel Árnason Njarðvík

National Church of Iceland

Distric pastor for Southern Iceland

Daniel Noel

Unitarian Universalist

Adult Education Leader

Coordinator of 9/11 Truth group,

Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, Costa Mesa, CA.

Don Nofziger

Retired Mennonite pastor Click here to see statement.





Reverend David Oliver-Holder

Presbyterian Minister

Bayfield Presbyterian Church

Bayfield, Wisconsin

Carolyn Olney

Pasadena First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

M. Div., Urban Ministry, Claremont School of Theology

Rev. Dr. Judith E. O’Neill

Presbyterian and United Church of Christ

Retired Campus Minister

Andrew Sung Park

Professor of Theology

United Theological Seminary

Dayton, Ohio

Author Click here to see statement.

Patricia Patterson

United Methodist Church

Retired Mission Executive, Local Church Member

Lynda H. Peterson

United Methodist Church

Lay Member to the North Georgia Annual Conference

Lay Leader, Cumberland United Methodist Church Click here to see statement.

Father Stephan Petrovich

Retired Archbishop of Ohio and Midwest

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of North and South America Click here to see statement.



Peter Phippen

Minister

JoyFull Ministries

M.A., B.A. Click here to see statement.



Reverend Åke Pilblad

Church of Sweden

Evangelical Lutheran, Retired Minister





Jorge (George) Pixley

Professor of Bible with Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago Divinity School (1968),

Retired Baptist minister, Served in Latin America, including Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua

Elenore R. Powell

United Church of Christ

Committee Chair

Rev. Don Prange

United Church of Christ

Minister at St. James UCC

Lovettsville, Va. Click here to see statement.

Bruce Prescott

Mainstream Baptist

M. of Divinity, PhD Philosophy, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Executive Director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists

Norman, Oklahoma

Edith Rasell

United Church of Christ

Minister for Economic Justice

Gene Reeves

Special Minister, International Buddhist Congregation

Tokyo, Japan

Former head of Meadville Lombard Theological School.

Marlene Reichmuth

Catholic

Past Board Member of Pecos Benedictine Community

John Rempel

Professor of theology

Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Elkhart, IN. 46517 Click here to see statement.

Georg Retzlaff

Episcopal Church

Rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Cayce, SC. Click here to see statement.

Sr. Megan Rice

Catholic Sister of the Holy Child Jesus

Missionary

Active peacemaker who is working to end nuclear weapons and war

Leigh M. Roberts

United Methodist

Lay member of Wisconsin Annual Conference

Local church council member

Frank Rogers, Jr.

Faculty member, Claremont School of Theology

Rev. Dr. Pete Sabey

Presbyterian and United Church of Christ

Retired Campus Minister

Reverend Paul W. Sawyer

Unitarian Universalist minister

Pasadena, CA





Steven Schemahorn

Non-denominational Christian

Associate Pastor, Beacon Church

Jackson, Michigan



Myron Schrag

Retired Mennonite Pastor

Keith Schroerlucke

United Methodist Church

Active Clergy

Madison, WI

Rob Shaw

Former Deacon of Laird Street Baptist Church, Birkenhead, UK

Moderator for 911forum.org.uk

Click here to see statement.



John A. Shuck

Active Clergy

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)

Portland, Oregon Click here to see statement.

T. Richard Snyder, Ph.D.

Academic Dean, Bangor Theological Seminary

Professor Emeritus, New York Theological Seminary

Sung Jacob Song

Independent Minister

PhD Claremont School of Theology Click here to see statement.

Anne Stokes

United Church of Christ

Past Board Member of Childrens' Ministry

Lou Stolzenberg

Past Chair, Church and Society work group, First United Methodist Church,

Madison, WI.

Coordinator for Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth

Pia Struck

Asatru (Ethnic Religion of Denmark)

Priestess in the congregation Harreskovens Blótgilde, Copenhagen, Denmark

Congregation is a member of the World Congress of Ethnic Religion.

Click here to see statement.

Douglas Sturm

United Methodist Church

Professor Emeritus, Religion & Political Science, Bucknell University

Former chair, editorial board, Journal of Law and Religion

Former president, Society of Christian Ethics. Click here to see statement.

Robert Desmarais Sullivan

Moderator of the Social Justice Team

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans

Anthony Thomsen

Seventh-Day Adventist

Chaplain & Pastor Click here to see statement.

Michelle Tooley

Ordained Baptist minister

Eli Lilly Professor of Religious Ethics at Berea College Click here to see statement.

Father Marek S. Tuptynski

Roman Catholic priest

Pastor of St. Patrick Church in Somerset, MA

Elton Tylenda

Catholic

Former teacher, Interfaith House, Chicago, Illinois

Teacher of Peace from faith perspectives

Master of Divinity degree from Chicago Theological Seminary Click here to see statement.



Father Benjamin J. Urmston, S. J.

PhD Peace Studies, Xavier University

Cincinnati, Ohio. Click here to see statement.

Audrey W. Vincent

Minister Emerita, Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

M. Div., D. Min., Claremont School of Theology, 1986.

Attended College of Divinity, Univ. of Aberdeen and served as an intern Minister at the Unitarian Church in Edinburgh

Click here to see statement.

Rev. Michelle A. Walsh

Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist

Affiliate Community Minister

United First Parish Church (Unitarian Universalist)

Quincy, MA. Click here to see statement.

Mark Carden Whitley

Presbyterian Church

Elder & Stephen Ministry Leader Click here to see statement.

Robert D. Williams

United Methodist Church

Retired Pastor

Past chair of a division of the Iowa Conference Board of Church and Society

Leadership experience in worship, missions, and ecumenism Click here to see statement.



Walter Wink, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretations

Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y.

Rev. Hal Woods

Episcopal Church Priest

Retired Rector, All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, Vermont Click here to see statement.