Reverberating Love: Oldenburg’s Enough is Best Known as “the man the Quad was named for,” Douglas Oldenburg’s effects are still felt far beyond the center of Campus Introduction by E RSKINE CLARKE, Professor of American Religious History The week after Doug Oldenburg announced he was leaving his pastorate in Charlotte to become president of Columbia Seminary, an editorial in the Charlotte Observer called his leaving Charlotte “a great loss to the city.” The editor noted that Oldenburg had addressed eloquently many issues, but “his most urgent interest was Christian faith and economic justice.” Later, on the eve of his departure from Charlotte, the Observer said that he had been “a powerful influence for good” in the life of the city and named the many ways he had challenged “his prosperous congregation, community and denomination to use wealth and influence in the way Jesus commanded: to help those who are in need.” He was, the paper said, admirably suited for the work to which he had been called: “the shaping of future generations of Presbyterian ministers.” 6
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