Norman Jay Kansfield (March 24, 1940 – January 27, 2024) was an American minister who served as a senior scholar in residence at Drew University.
He was suspended from being a minister in the Reformed Church in America and president of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 2005 after officiating at his daughter's same-sex marriage.
From 1983 to 1993, he was the Director of the Ambrose Swasey Library, and Associate Professor of Church History in the Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary.
[3] During his presidency, through the concerted work of many persons, the student body increased by more than 50% and became much more ethnically and socially diverse; the faculty grew by two positions, and the school's endowment was doubled.
[4] Kansfield also wrote a hymn, "In Every Age, God Calls and Shapes the Church," in honor of his daughter Ann's 2011 ordination.
He was active in the founding of Room for All, an organization within the membership of the Reformed Church in America that is working for the full inclusion of GLBT persons within that denomination,[8] and he served the Human Rights Campaign as a member of the Editorial Board of Out In Scripture.