Background

Chloe Breyer was born in the United States; the daughter of Stephen Breyer and Joanna Freda Hare.

Education

Chloe attended Harvard University. In 1997 Breyer, who had grown up in a liberal secular family with a Jewish father, entered General Theological Seminary in New York City to prepare for ordination as an Episcopal priest. She is a Doctor of Philosophy, whose Dissertation in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, is on Interfaith activism, Christian peacemaking, and Islamophobia.

Career

Chloe Breyer, Heather McLeod, and Leslie Crutchfield, all graduates of Harvard University, cofounded the magazine Who Cares, which debuted in October 1993. She has served there as its coeditor.

While taking classes at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, Breyer worked at Bellevue Hospital as a chaplain. She also taught English at a monastery in Tibet.

Breyer founded and directed the Cathedral Forums on Religion and Public Life at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine from 2000 to 2003. She joined the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) in 2007 as Executive Director. An Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York, Breyer also serves as an Associate priest at St. Philip’s Church in Harlem.

Following the 11th of September, Chloe worked on an interfaith initiative to rebuild a mosque in Afghanistan destroyed by U.S. bombs. She also worked with the US Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals to raise awareness about the MDGs among American religious leaders of different faith traditions.

Breyer is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary, that was written in 2000, and has contributed chapters to What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World in 2005 and Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel in 2006.

Achievements

• Chloe Breyer has directed Interfaith Center of New York and worked with hundreds of grassroots religious leaders from diverse faith traditions to catalyze partnerships with civic officials and resolve social problems plaguing New York City. While her service at Who Cares magazine, it was designated one of the ten best magazines of 1993 by Library Journal.
  
  

Works

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  • What Can One Person Do?: Faith to Heal a Broken World

    (What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken worl...)

    2005
  • The Close: A Young Woman's First Year At Seminary

    (Set in the context of the Church Year, The Close is an en...)

    2000
  • Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel

    (Getting On Message challenges this association from the v...)

    2006

Views

Chloe Breyer, an Episcopalian priest, presents her ideas on the subject of abortion. She thinks that women ought to be recognized as having the "capacity for moral discernment," and that this capacity has not been recognized during the many centuries of history in which men have been in charge of society. It seems that she means that with regard to the issue of decision-making about abortion, a woman should be viewed as a competent moral agent who cannot make wrong decisions because there is no external source of moral order to which one could point as a basis for critiquing for decision.

Connections

Chloe Breyer is married to Greg Scholl. They have two children.

Father:

Stephen Breyer

Mother:

Joanna Freda Hare

Brother:

Michael Breyer

Brother:

Nell Breyer

husband:

Greg Scholl

Greg Scholl is an Executive Director at Jazz at Lincoln Center.