Editor’s Note: Robert M. Zamora passed away earlier this year, on June 11, 2018. A short biography, provided by his daughter Xandra Y. Zamora, and excerpts from the eulogy given by his friend and colleague James J. Londis, both follow below.
Pastor Zamora was my teacher at Newbold College and became a signficant mentor to me. I loved his classes at Newbold. He was also instrumental in guiding and supporting The Gate, a Christian folk club that we established in Bracknell, and that subsequently spread to London, Coventry, Bradford, and Wales. He asked me to keep in touch and when he discovered I intended to go to graduate school in theology and philosophy of religion, he told me to inform him when I was ready to teach. When I finished my studies and exams at Claremont Graduate School I contacted him, and at that time he was the chair of the Religion Department at Columbia Union College. He said, “I need you out here yesterday.” I flew out, got the job, and spent 28 wonderful years teaching at CUC. Incidentally, I passed him in the airport in DC as I was arriving; he was on his way to Mountain View to interview for the job. He got that one, so we never actually got to work together. But he was a tremendous influence on me spiritually and professionally. What a blessing.
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