Our Minister
Doug Hammack
Doug describes himself as an offbeat minister leading a non-traditional church. Yep. Pretty much.
He started Common Thread (it was called North Raleigh Community Church then) in 1995. After being a college minister in a Los Angeles mega-church, he moved to Raleigh and gathered a bunch of folks who were pretty disillusioned with organized religion (like himself). But having experienced deep personal growth within religion, instead of abandoning it altogether, he led the community to figure out where things had gone so badly wrong, and begin working together to fix it.

Doug’s Books
Check out Doug’s books: the first one is about rethinking religion, the second is about rethinking sex education. Both explore what religion has to offer our society in this moment of social upheaval.
Doug’s Blog
Check out Doug’s blog. It will give you a sense of the rethinking journey our community has been on. He also uses his blog to rough draft his books. He’s rough-drafting one now, about how to rebuild a healthy version of organized religion.