Douglas W. Oldenburg (February 22, 1935 to July 21, 2020) was a Christian pastor and President Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in the US.
[1] Douglas Oldenburg was born on February 22, 1935, in Muskegon, Michigan and grew up in Signal Mountain, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina.
In Lynchburg, Virginia he helped to organize the Kum Ba Ya House ministry for disadvantaged children.
In Elkins, West Virginia he led a successful vote on a bond levy to raise teacher salaries.
After serving a total of 26 years as pastor, he then became the seventh president of Columbia Theological Seminary in 1987, which he held until his retirement in 2000.
[6] For many years, he served on the board of Focused Community Strategies (FCS Urban Ministries) and the Protestant Radio and Television Center (now called Day1).